Conoce a los pájaros, episodio 2: Never forget your bird's name ¡!

Question

It's a 'fowl' feeling when you meet a lovely bird and think you're getting along really well together, but suddenly you realise you can't remember the name you thought you'd learned only a few minutes ago.

Well, continuing the theme begun in the earlier thread, 'Conoce a los pájaros' (see link below), I've started to draw up a table of the commonest birds with their names in English and Spanish and ways (for English-speakers) to try and remember the names (in Spanish).

I've deliberately excluded some rarer birds (certain of whom I don't even know in English), and I may accidentally have missed some commoner ones. I also haven't completed the process of ways to remember.

Please feel free to suggest any common birds that I've omitted, and any other ways to remember.

By the way, it should read 'KinG Martin', not 'KinD Martin'. If you spot any other mistakes, please let me know...

Conoce a los pájaros

Keep in mind that although the word albatros is "the same" in Spanish the stress is not on the same syllable as in English. http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/albatros - bosquederoble, May 14, 2015

Answer 1

Heron has one R; estornino

Everyone will probably have slightly different lists, depending on where they live, plan to go etc. You have a few I am not terribly familiar with, but miss a few I do know.

Oca is the domestic goose, ganso is the term for the wild one, I know hummingbirds as Colibrís or picaflores , a Turkey in Mexico is Guajolote, A lechuza is a barn owl, Búho is the standard type. Zorzal is another name for thrush

Here are some others just for consideration, ones that I had previously learned:

Casuary- casuario

Rhea- ñandú

Tinamou- Tinamú (although there are many other names)

Auk- alca

Grebe/Loon somormujo, somorgujo

Pelican- Pelícano

Egret- garceta

Ibis- ibis

Crane- grulla

Plover- chorlito

Rail- rascón

Tern- golondrina de mar

macaw- guacamaya

cokatoo- cacatúa

Parakeet- perico

Swift- vencejo

Toucan- tucán

Shrike- alcaudón

Chickadee- carbonero

Cardinal- cardenal

Wren- chochín (there are other terms)

Oriole- oropéndola

Goldfinch- jilguero

Canary- canario

You're right that one's fauna vary depending on where one resides. Apparently North Africans find sheep as amazing when they visit Scotland as we do camels when we visit N.Africa... !! - Faldaesque, May 14, 2015

Answer 2

Give another round , its good learning.