• @[email protected]
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    81 month ago

    This isn’t everywhere. In German, many birds have pretty unique names: Amsel, Spatz, Kuckuck, Uhu, Eule and so on.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      Those are blackbird, sparrow, cuckoo, eagle owl, owl. The one in the meme is a Gelbkopf-Schwarzstärling (“yellowhead blackstärling”)

      So, not that different, I’d say.

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        11 month ago

        You do have a point. Seems like there are quite a few “new” names in each language and then some weirdly descriptive ones for specific birds.

    • Zement
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      11 month ago

      In Germany we have lots of names that are the descriptions. Stirnlappenbasilisk ist quite descriptive…