I think it's "poule d'eau" for the coot in LA, i.e. "water chicken". On Mitchell's Bay coots are just known as trouble... On the Barnegat Bay, buffleheads are know as "dippers". Ruddies were known in the sounds of NC as "boobies"...being somewhat round in the pre-silicone days...I have spent all my life around the Cheapeake Bay and I have never heard anyone call a goldeneye, a "jingler"...always whistler.
Thankfully, despite political correctness and the USFWS, the old squaw's new name of longtailed duck hasn't caught on. We have also yet been spared the re-naming of the black duck to "the American Duck of Color"...
In Geo. Bird Grinnell's wonderful book "American Duck Shooting" (1901), he lists a plethora of colloquial names for every North American duck.
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