58 Funny Bird Names Which Are Actually Real

List Of 58 Bird Names And Some Facts About Each:

Blue-footed Booby

It is a marine bird native to the regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Blue-footed boobies have blue feet. The blue pigment can indicate if a blue-footed booby is nourished. The species usually lays one to three eggs at a time.

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

The yellow-bellied sapsucker is a medium-sized woodpecker that is distinguished by having a red nape. The species is monotypic. They often nest in groves of small trees

Monotonous Lark

The monotonous lark is a species of lark found in southern Africa. Its movement patterns are poorly understood.

Rattling Cisticola

The rattling cisticola is a species of bird that is native to Africa. This species has an extremely large range.

Great Tit

The Great Tit is a member of the tit family and is found in gardens and woods in Europe and Asia.

Bushtit

The bushtit builds a hanging nest shaped like a woven sock. It is the only member of its family found in the Americas.

Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler

It is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae.

Eurasian Woodcock

In spring the male flies a dusk circuit called roding to stake out his patch.

Shoebill

The shoebill can stand motionless for hours in the swamps of East and Central Africa.

Nazca Booby

The Nazca booby is a large seabird that is native to the eastern Pacific. It is very similar to Masked Booby.

They are one of three species of booby found in the Galapagos. During courtship, it displays a peculiar dance ritual.

Hoatzin

Hoatzin chicks hatch with two claws on each wing.

Wandering Tattler

The Wandering Tattler is a familiar bird in winter along the Pacific Coast.

They nest in rocky areas along mountain streams. All ages have a longer groove on the upper mandible.

It is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.

Kakapo

The kakapo is the heaviest parrot in the world and cannot fly. It lives only in New Zealand and is down to a few hundred birds under close protection.

Willie Wagtail

The willie wagtail swings its tail from side to side almost without pause.

Blue Tit

It is one of our most attractive and most recognisable garden visitors.

Restless Flycatcher

The restless flycatcher is a passerine bird in the family Monarchidae. The back, wings, and tail are darker grey.

Red-footed Booby

The red-footed booby is a large seabird that nests in trees, so they don’t compete for nest sites.

They look smaller and more slender than other boobies. The diet of red-footed boobies consists mostly of fish.

Chuck-will’s-widow

It is the largest nightjar in North America and hunts insects on the wing after dark.

Andean Cock-of-the-rock

Males wear bright orange and a disk-shaped crest.

Macaroni Penguin

The macaroni penguin is a species of penguin that was featured in the Sony Pictures Animation movie ‘Surfs Up.‘

An adult bird has an average length of around 70 cm.

Smew

The smew is a species of duck that nests in tree holes.

Facts about birds

Flamingoes are pink on the inside as well as the outside.

All ducks have highly waterproof feathers.

Cardinals like to cover themselves in ants.

Birds of prey are carnivorous birds with hooked beaks and sharp talons.

Emperor penguins can dive to depths of hundreds of metres.

Superb Fairywren

The superb fairywren is a passerine bird that has adapted well to the urban environment. Its tail is usually blue.

Northern Shoveler

The northern shoveler is a common duck that breeds in northern areas of Europe. No living subspecies are recognised today.

Eurasian Hoopoe

Its oop-oop-oop is the source of the name in many languages.

Bufflehead

Bufflehead is the smallest diving duck in North America.

Tufted Titmouse

The tufted titmouse works the woodlands of the eastern United States. It stores seeds through the colder months and for nest lining, it gathers hair.

Tawny Frogmouth

It is a species of frogmouth native to Tasmania and Australia. Tawny Frogmouth is Australia’s most familiar nocturnal bird. Tawny frogmouths and owls both have mottled patterns.

Common Potoo

The common potoo has yellow eyes and a wide mouth. This nocturnal insectivore hunts from a perch.

Laughing Kookaburra

The laughing kookaburra is a large kingfisher with a brown cheek patch. The laughing kookaburra is the largest species of kingfisher.

Secretarybird

The secretarybird is a large bird of prey with an eagle-like head. The secretarybird is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. Their lower legs have heavy scales.

Horned Screamer

The horned screamer belongs to the Anhimidae family and is found in the Amazonian lowlands.

Turquoise-browed Motmot

The Turquoise-browed Motmot has a preference for higher tree diversity and richness.

Plain Chachalaca

Its range reaches the US only in the far south of Texas.

Limpkin

The limpkin lives almost entirely on apple snails. The halting walk is what gave it the name.

Screaming Piha

They make a piercingly loud three-part ‘qui-qui-yo’ song.

Satanic Nightjar

The Satanic nightjar was discovered in 1931 by Gerd Heinrich. It measures about 27 cm long.

Go-away Bird

The grey go-away-bird is a common turaco of the southern Afrotropics.

Bananaquit

The name of the bananaquit comes from the English word quit (small passerine birds).

Did you know how naming new species is done?

A holotype must be designated.

A description of the news species is required.

This description and data must be published.

Masked Booby

The masked booby is a large seabird. Masked boobies typically deep-plunge for their prey. The sexes have similar plumage.

Hamerkop

The hamerkop gets its name from its hammer-shaped head.

Boat-billed Heron

It feeds at night and its large dark eyes are built for low light.

Hadada Ibis

Adults have a body mass of 1.2 kilograms.

Wailing Cisticola

Wailing Cisticola is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae that is found in Zambia and South Africa.

Sad Flycatcher

It was originally described as Tyrannula barbirostris.

Magnificent Frigatebird

The magnificent frigatebird is the largest species of frigatebird. The magnificent frigatebird is a seabird of the frigatebird family Fregatidae that steals food from other seabirds.

Wrinkled Hornbill

The wrinkled hornbill is a medium-large hornbill that is around 70 cm long.

Splendid Fairywren

The splendid fairywren is a passerine bird. This species mainly eats insects.

Eastern Whip-poor-will

It builds no nest and lays straight onto the leaf litter where its feathers hide it.

Dovekie

The dovekie breeds in the high Arctic in colonies that run into the millions.

Atlantic Puffin

Sailors nicknamed it the sea parrot for that triangular bill.

Peruvian Booby

The Peruvian booby is within the genus Sula.

Dickcissel

It was formally described in 1789. Dickcissels forage on the ground or in fields.

Ruff

Males come in three set types: bold territory-holders, white-collared “satellites”, and a rare kind that looks like a female.

Common Chiffchaff

Most of them migrate moving south out of Europe for the winter.

Worm-eating Warbler

The worm-eating warbler breeds in the Eastern United States. It has a slim, pointed bill and pink legs.

Spangled Drongo

The spangled drongo is the only drongo to be found in Australia.

Capuchinbird

It is a cotinga of the Amazon that lives on fruit and insects.

Southern Rockhopper Penguin

The Southern Rockhopper Penguin is one of the smaller crested penguins and is breeding on rocky southern coasts and islands.