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Vintage Wildlife postcardCirca 1939
Part of a series
"America's Wildlife Resources"
National Wildlife Publishing Corp., New York
Restore - Protect - Conserve
Excerpt of card reverse text:
BOBOLINK (Dolichonyx oryzivorous)
A lively, fun loving, mischievous little fellow, the Bobolink is a colorful addition to our meadows. His is a lovely, liquid song from which he derives his name. In years past, he suffered from heavy slaughter in the South, where he was called "rice bird", but now he enjoys protection. His range covers our northern states and he makes a long flight to Argentina and Brazil to spend the winter. He particularly likes grassy pastures and open fields and meadows, and he is our only relatively small song bird completely black on the under parts and with white wing markings and a yellowish patch at the base of his neck.
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Comments: 13
oh, wow! thank you for sharing ! have not seen this fella actually
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What a gorgeous and unusual looking bird! I just love the pattern!
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The white shoulders are quite striking
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Beautiful!
Apparently the bobolink is also known in Dutch as rijsttroepiaal ("rijst" meaning "rice"). Learning something new every day! (^_^)
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It's a good name! Better than 'Bobolink' — what genius thought that one up, haha
North American Bobolink, Whipoorwill, Screech Owl, and Killdeer all have ridiculous cutesy names that are onomatopoeic. My favorite field name for a bird though will always be Timberdoodle. XD
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late comment, but ahem... they're named for the sound of their songs. Whippoorwills make a call that "sounds" like their name, as does its relative the Chuck-will's-widow, and bobolinks (Sort of a "Bob-o-bob-o-link-link-link" sound, though not as exact as the whippoorwill). And killdeer are SUPPOSED to sound like a whimpery "Kill-deeeer", but I never heard it that way. If you flip through a birding book, when it describes songs, they're usually given in a way that's supposed to help you remember better by it resembling some actual words or a sentence (like "Perch-perch a week!" for goldfinches, "Drink your teeeeeea" for an Eastern Towhee, or "gur-gu-ling bub-bley" for a purple martin), and those birds got named for how distinct their calls are.
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That's what I thought I was communicating when I wrote that the names were onomatopoeic. Oh well!
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Ah, must have missed that part. My bird-nerdery shoved its way to the front too fast!
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Well, owl's well now!
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Puns always make the best out of a hawkward situation.
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As a kid I thought that "Tjiftjaf" was a fictional birdname (it was used as a title of a comic I read) but it's very real. I noticed that in English it's virtually the same: "Chiffchaff".
I love the sound of it.
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It does have a cute ring to it!
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