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[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Red-bellied is completely accurate, you just normally don’t see the belly:

a red bellied woodpecker goofily hanging off a branch, showing off the red underside it’s named for

Red-headed was already taken:

a woodpecker with a completely bright red head and a black and white body.

[–] DavidP@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it should be renamed "red-capped woodpecker".

That photo captured one with a very red belly!! The ones in our backyard have just a blush of orange.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I think red-capped would be a good name too! In general I’m a fan of birds having as many common names as makes sense, haha

[–] lime@feddit.nl 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago

The 5 kinds of bird names:

  1. Amazing Wonderbird of Eden
  2. Hotbreasted Milfjay
  3. Grayheaded Brownbird
  4. Walter's Fingernail
  5. Miserable Fuckwit
[–] Una@europe.pub 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

It depends on the part of the goat being sucked I suppose. The goat may be fine with it, we need more information.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Far better names than most others get. What the hell does a C. elegans elegans look like?

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

These are from the calendars this guy makes.

[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

/r/birdswitharms exists, now we have birds with legs too.

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago
[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I gave these calendars as Christmas gifts last year and I bought a bunch of stickers. It’s the only thing I’ve ever bought after seeing it on TikTok and it’s worth every penny.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not a bird-person, but please tell me these are Tits? Then it could be a calendar of Tits 'n ass.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wouldn't hurt a deer? Dude they're called that because they're shouting about it all the time (that's what their call spunds like). Racist little fuckers.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago

There's also the black-headed gull, only the males have a black head and only during the mating season. The vast majority of the time the black-headed gull has a white head, just like the other 11 billion gull species

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Nice tit bro

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

This is what I've been saying my entire life. Bald eagles are a scam.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Woodpeckers don't even seem to have penises, at all?

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

Let's see their drawing of a blue footed boobie.

[–] Hope@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I must say, the legs on that last bird are amazingly accurate, perhaps the best depiction of any bird I've seen!

Imagine how disappointed I was the first time I saw a picture of a titmouse.