Re: A quiz!

[Martin Butterfield <>]

Well, I have been underwhelmed by response to my quiz.  

Here are the answers:

• Diver = Musk Duck
  
• Carr Goose = Great Crested Grebe!
  
• Canvasback = Freckled Duck.  Astonishingly, this one is not in the most excellent book by Ian Fraser and Jeannie Gray.  But neither does a Google search deliver anything helpful.  The name is officially applied to a species of North American waterfowl which really doesn't look anything like the Freckled Duck.  I suspect the derivation of the name is related to warming drinks (such as Bundy OP).
  
• Allied Harrier = both Swamp and Spotted Harrier
  

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On 10 January 2017 at 17:18, Martin Butterfield <> wrote:

I have been doing some list matching and come up with some interesting bird names.  I am interested how many people can put the name used in the current official COG List to these vernacular names found in one of my lists - without using Google!

• Diver
  
• Carr Goose
  
• Canvasback
  
• Allied Harrier
  

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Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/