RebekahWSD to birdingEnglish · 2 months agoStrutting Laughing Gull!imagemessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up141arrow-down1imageStrutting Laughing Gull!RebekahWSD to birdingEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square6linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRebekahWSDOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoI don’t know German, sorry! My bird science friend called it a laughing gull so that’s what I’ve called them now!
minus-squarenautevenkidding@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoCurious. Maybe they are called that in some regions after all. Edit: see parent comment, the following apparently is false. It’s just that “Lachmöwe” is a notorious false friend in German, hence my assumption.
minus-squareRebekahWSDOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoNow I know a false friend in a different language! This is the laughing gull I know of! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_gull The bird was seen in New Jersey, so it’s probably the L. a. megalopterus!
minus-squarenautevenkidding@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agooh no So this one is actually called in english what the other is called in both sc. latin and german - and they even look similar enough.
I don’t know German, sorry! My bird science friend called it a laughing gull so that’s what I’ve called them now!
Curious. Maybe they are called that in some regions after all.
Edit: see parent comment, the following apparently is false.
It’s just that “Lachmöwe” is a notorious false friend in German, hence my assumption.
Now I know a false friend in a different language!
This is the laughing gull I know of! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_gull
The bird was seen in New Jersey, so it’s probably the L. a. megalopterus!
oh no
So this one is actually called in english what the other is called in both sc. latin and german - and they even look similar enough.