bonxies vs bops?

[ChrisJB]

Originally Posted by Jim Ford

Can we not use local/regional names for wildlife please - not everyone is familiar with them. Otherwise people will start referring to 'emmets', 'spadgers', 'clock a clays' etc.!

Jim

And shepsters, yellow neb linties and layrocks.....

Chris

[Jim Ford]

Originally Posted by Deb London

Couldn't for the life of me remember which Skua this was, BUT Jim allow me to Google that for you:

(A bit of his own medicine!)

Oooh - you've got a long memory 'Deb'. I wouldn't like to be your partner and hostage to a forgotten anniversary 20 years ago!

;^)

My 'Peterson, Mountfort and Hollom - A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe', makes no mention of 'bonxie' in the great skua entry.

Regional and local names are confusing for those that don't live in the area in which they originate. 'Bonxie' is a Shetland name, and you don't get more regional than that! I'm sure that if a Scot on the forum started banging on about 'partens', they would soon get picked up! Likewise a Cornish person referring to 'emmets'.

Jim

[dunkeld]

I was working in Shetland where Ifirst saw a Bonxie,at least that is what the local people called them, infact they were still Bonxies until I got home on the mainland,weeks later to learn that in fact they were Great Skuas.
Incidently a Parten is an edible crab,at least it is in Aberdeenshire.
Apologies again for going off in a different subject