Bars with the most unusual bird names (1 Viewer)

[Allen S. Moore]

What are the most unusual bird names that BirdForum members have found on bars (or similar establishments)?
One that I have seen was Urogallo in Madrid, between Gran Via and Calle Mayor.
Allen

Yes, I've obviously started with an unbeatable bird name there! Here in the Isle of Man we have the likes of the Raven, Swan, Heron and Falcon's Nest. I once (20 years ago) passed a pub called the Ruddy Duck at Peakirk near Peterborough in England.

 

[Jamspangle]

What are the most unusual bird names that BirdForum members have found on bars (or similar establishments)?
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We have a pub near us here in Kilcoole called 'The Breaches' which is a reference to the location of the Little Tern Colony which i'm a warden for. It has a large tern painted on the front of the pub, but unfortunatly it's a common tern, of which we have precisely none! I have thought about going up and painting the beak yellow but i'm not sure the effort would be appreciated.

the only other pub i can think of is one i passed in Derbyshire called 'The Spread Eagle'. more a reference to the state of the regulars than a bird reference i believe!

 

[Allen S. Moore]

We have a pub near us here in Kilcoole called 'The Breaches' which is a reference to the location of the Little Tern Colony which i'm a warden for. It has a large tern painted on the front of the pub, but unfortunatly it's a common tern, of which we have precisely none! I have thought about going up and painting the beak yellow but i'm not sure the effort would be appreciated.

Yes, it would be an unfortunate reason for getting banned, or worse!

 

[Andrew Rowlands]

On the hillside a few miles South of me there is a great little pub called "The Goose and Cuckoo".

Good beer and good birds to be had there (Wood Warbler, Redstart, Goshawk ... ) - biggest challenge is to find it!

Cheers,

Andy.

 

[jpoyner]

"The Snow Goose" near Raigmore Inverness and "The Tufted Duck" at St. Combes nr. Fraserburgh........you've all seen "The Wicker Man".....say no more...........

JP

 

[RecoveringScot]

There used to be one called 'The Harnser' = 'Hearnshaw' = 'Heron', in Norfolk (at Cley?) Dunno if it's still there.

 

[Allen S. Moore]

On the hillside a few miles South of me there is a great little pub called "The Goose and Cuckoo".

Good beer and good birds to be had there (Wood Warbler, Redstart, Goshawk ... ) - biggest challenge is to find it!

Cheers,

Andy.

It would have to be a large cuckoo to be involved with a goose!
Allen

 

[Allen S. Moore]

"The Snow Goose" near Raigmore Inverness and "The Tufted Duck" at St. Combes nr. Fraserburgh........you've all seen "The Wicker Man".....say no more...........

JP

Snow Goose and Tufted Duck must be unique as bar names, or is there a Snow Goose bar in Canada?
Come on, put me out of my misery, what's with the "Wicker Man"?!
Allen

 

[Rhion]

There's one called "The Eagles" in Caernarfon with a rather nice picture of a couple of immature Goldies on the sign.

 

[Jurij Hanžel]

A few I can think of in Slovenia:
Sokol (Falcon)
Štorklja (Stork)
Siva čaplja (Grey Heron)
Sraka (Magpie)

One in Croatia:
Zeba (Chaffinch)

One in Italy:
Gallo cedrone (I think it's Blackgrouse or Capercaillie), the food is magnificent!

Not exactly a bar (it's a paper towel distributing company), but still interesting: Kotorna (Rock Partridge).

 

[KnockerNorton]

There's a Dotterel Inn pub at Reighton, in Yorkshire. It used to be an inn serving shooting tourists who'd come to have a pop at the trips of Dotterels that stopped by many many years ago. It's still going, unlike the local Dotterels.

 

[jurek]

Pod gniazdem (under the nest) - indeed under a stork nest, and has a nice painting of a stork holding a beer mug in the wing.

 

[Geoff Pain]

The Sociable Plover in Portsmouth
The Drunken Duck in Hawkshead
The Falcon and Firkin in London

got these from a great little book called The Birdwatchers Companion,full of all sorts of triva and information.

 

[TonyC]

Rat and Parrot in Liverpool

 

[Allen S. Moore]

There's a Dotterel Inn pub at Reighton, in Yorkshire. It used to be an inn serving shooting tourists who'd come to have a pop at the trips of Dotterels that stopped by many many years ago. It's still going, unlike the local Dotterels.

Ah, yes. There's a photograph of that pub in John Mather's book "The Birds of Yorkshire" from the 1980s.

 

[Marmot]

The Winking Owl at Aviemore, Scotland.

They do great meals as well

 

[jpoyner]

Snow Goose and Tufted Duck must be unique as bar names, or is there a Snow Goose bar in Canada?
Come on, put me out of my misery, what's with the "Wicker Man"?!
Allen

A cult film about a rather strange isolated Scottish community.......there's a scene in it when a visitor (Policeman from the mainland) walks in to the bar one evening...........

John.

 

[Jamspangle]

Flamingo and Firkin in Derby

 

[jpoyner]

Flamingo and Firkin in Derby

Am told there are a few Firkin Flamingos in the Camargue region too !

JP

 

[David Swanepoel]

Wow, long thread. I've been to a place called Swainsons (after Swainson's Spurfowl) in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa.
Regards,
- David Swanepoel