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11-17-2011, 03:36 PM
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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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11-17-2011, 04:01 PM
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I can remember my dad and his friends in a blind on the Chester River in Maryland talking about "Hell Divers" and "Blue Peters". I believe they were talking about coots and grebes, but I don't remember which was which
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11-17-2011, 05:44 PM
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Hell Divers are grebes and Bluepeters are coots.
I believe I heard the jingler name used out on Tangier, could have been local to the island. I think Kevin has mentioned to me he's heard them called that as well. DLH
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11-17-2011, 06:26 PM
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Lots of unique words on the Eastern Shore. I've heard an anchor referred to as a "Kittle"
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i like the name for the canada goose ... that long necked corn eating buzzurd....ive learned some new names for sure tonite... charlie
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