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Bird Wirds: Adjectives

A list of 830 words by reesetee.

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Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.

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  • marky cool list! Jul 8, 2011

  • reesetee Thanks, h! Oct 2, 2009

  • hernesheir Taeniopygia bichenovii - double-barred finch. Oct 1, 2009

  • vanishedone It seems the wirdie.com registration has been allowed to lapse. Nov 21, 2008

  • reesetee Yes, the Furtive Flycatcher. Secretive little critter. :-) Oct 30, 2008

  • bilby Furtive? Whahaha :-> Oct 30, 2008

  • seanahan We should start a Wordie fan site on wirdee where we tell meta-jokes about the meta-conversations that we meta-have on Wordie.

    Or, we could use it as a testbed to test out new Wordie features that aren't quite ready for prime time. Oct 28, 2007

  • reesetee HaHA! So THAT's it! You're right, uselessness. I remember wondering what that was all about. Must have been Trickster John all along. And you did list wirdee 6 months ago, according to the time stamp.

    Love it.... Oct 27, 2007

  • uselessness That explains it! I remember a while back when somebody (reesetee, I think) noticed that the text on the home page said Wirdee, and assumed it was some April Fools joke or something. Shortly thereafter it seemed to correct itself, and we never did get closure... ;-)

    Edit: I just looked up the word page for Wirdee and it seems I was wise to things even back then! Oct 27, 2007

  • john Little known fact: Wordie was almost called 'Wirdee.'

    Anyone want to start another word site? I still own wirdee.com ;-) Oct 27, 2007

  • reesetee Oooh, you're right! Thanks for pointing that out, rocks. I'd never tried that option on this page. Oct 14, 2007

  • rocksinmypockets This list makes a particularly nice cloud. Oct 14, 2007

  • chained_bear Oh, these are so swell. I wish we could use them in regular conversation that isn't about birds.

    "Hey Bill, how was the party last night?"
    "Oh, it was totally ferruginous. We all got roseate and ended up photocopying our fulvouses. How was dinner with the guys?"
    "Dude, it was neotropic. We hooked up with these chicks afterwards? One of them was cerulean, and the other was kinda palmated. I ended up with the plumbeous."
    "Yeah?"
    "Yeah, she was sweet. All you do is buy her a couple of pomarines on the rocks and she's all yours."
    "Sweet." Feb 1, 2007

  • reesetee Thanks, palooka--that's one of my favorites, too, along with ferruginous. Jan 27, 2007

  • palooka Great idea for a list! I liked "flammulated". Jan 27, 2007