Bars with the most unusual bird names (1 Viewer)

[Larry Sweetland]

The Willy Wicket in Bristol has a Common Sandpiper on it's sign. I've just googled the name (thanks to this thread), and apparently it's an old name for Common Sandpiper.B

 

[Valéry Schollaert]

"La Bécasse" (= The Woodcock) is a famous bar/restaurant in Brussels. In Morocco, Boumalne-du-Dades, I know "La Vallée des Oiseaux" is a hotel-bar (Valley of birds or Birds valley...).

I skip the "El Quetzal" in Costa Rica or "Shoebill camp" in Zambia, too obvious. In Zambia also we have Chaplin's Barbet Lodge and Taita Falcon lodge.

The Weaver's Nest in South Africa.... ho, but we said bars, not hotel. Let me stop here.

Cheers

 

[dalat]

One of the oldest bars in Hanoi is called "Golden Cock"

 

[Allen S. Moore]

"La Bécasse" (= The Woodcock) is a famous bar/restaurant in Brussels. In Morocco, Boumalne-du-Dades, I know "La Vallée des Oiseaux" is a hotel-bar (Valley of birds or Birds valley...).

I skip the "El Quetzal" in Costa Rica or "Shoebill camp" in Zambia, too obvious. In Zambia also we have Chaplin's Barbet Lodge and Taita Falcon lodge.

The Weaver's Nest in South Africa.... ho, but we said bars, not hotel. Let me stop here.

Cheers

Thanks, Valéry, and everyone else, of course. Hotels generally offer some form of refreshment, so there is no need to stop there as far as this thread is concerned!

 

[ptickner]

There is the "Snow Goose" in Anchorage, Alaska

 

[Andy Hurley]

"Auerhahn" is not so uncommon as pub or restaurant name in Germany. In the Black Forest (which is indeed one area where Capercaille still can be seen) alone there are a couple of them.

talking about capercaille http://www.capercaillierestaurant.co.uk/

 

[Andy Hurley]

Also see here http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=98016

 

[auchinbowie]

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

Perhaps it was intended to be "The Goosed and Cuckolded"?

There is a chain called "The Rusty Pelican" in the US -- including one in the Florida Keys

 

[halftwo]

I know a few "Swan with two nicks" around Cheshire and a pub in Stockport called "The Swan with two necks" which is presumably a derivation.

The Swan with Two Nicks in Little Bollington refers to the markings on the bill to denote ownership.
The Swan with two Necks refers to a reflection.

Anyway, in/near Lymm, Cheshire, there's The Barn Owl, The Spread Eagle & The Swan with Two Nicks as Mike mentioned.

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Near here is the "Cock and Pullet" - fortunately there are two poultry on the Pub sign!

 

[Allen S. Moore]

I have just returned from 2 weeks in the Azores, including 6 days in Horta on Faial. One day I walked north over a bit of a hill and down the other side to the picturesque seaside village of Praia do Almoxarife. My reason for going was to eat in a restaurant called "O Cagarro," which is the Portuguese name for the Cory's shearwater. I was pleased that I had gone. Not only was the walk good, including hearing several quail in roadside fields, but I had an excellent meal in "O Cagarro." I ate trigger fish which was actually the tastiest piece of fish that I ate in the Azores, and that is saying something, of course.

The restaurant has a lot of information about the conservation of the Cory's shearwater, which I was also very pleased to see. They also have 2 photos of the bird on their business card.

If you are in Horta, give it a try. The walk was less than 2 hours, and a drive would be about 15 minutes, according to the guide book.

 

[kuzeycem]

"Kingfisher" at Istanbul.

 

[Nutcracker]

My reason for going was to eat in a restaurant called "O Cagarro," which is the Portuguese name for the Cory's shearwater. I was pleased that I had gone. Not only was the walk good, including hearing several quail in roadside fields, but I had an excellent meal in "O Cagarro."

Was it "O Cagarro,", with a comma, or "O Cagarro.", with a fullstop??

 

[Allen S. Moore]

Was it "O Cagarro,", with a comma, or "O Cagarro.", with a fullstop??

Neither!

 

[Johann Sebastian Bach]

Was it "O Cagarro,", with a comma, or "O Cagarro.", with a fullstop??

Sum people no wear quotation marks go in English-as-she-is-correctly rit whilst, other's our moor pedantic.

Peter

 

[stevethehydra]

There is (or was approx. 10 years ago) a roadside pub somewhere in the Chilterns (possibly Wendover/Great Missenden area?) called "The Firecrest" - whose pub sign was an otherwise fairly accurate painting of said bird with its head literally on fire!

 

[Ross McGregor]

There is a "Ruddy Duck" in Morehead City, North Carolina. Decent beer and great food. You can sit out on the deck on the warf and watch brown pelicans, laughing gulls and royal terns flying past. You can even arrive by boat and tie up to the dock. I've never seen a ruddy duck from there though.

 

[Allen S. Moore]

There is (or was approx. 10 years ago) a roadside pub somewhere in the Chilterns (possibly Wendover/Great Missenden area?) called "The Firecrest" - whose pub sign was an otherwise fairly accurate painting of said bird with its head literally on fire!

Thanks, Steve,

Sometimes I think that my ears are on fire trying to see the blighters twittering away in the pines! I can hear them, so why can't I see them?

 

[Allen S. Moore]

There is a "Ruddy Duck" in Morehead City, North Carolina. Decent beer and great food. You can sit out on the deck on the warf and watch brown pelicans, laughing gulls and royal terns flying past. You can even arrive by boat and tie up to the dock. I've never seen a ruddy duck from there though.

Good one, Ross.

People sometimes arrive by boat at the "Lucky Shag" in Perth, West Australia and tie up outside. You can see Aussie white pelicans, silver gulls, crested terns and sometimes Caspian terns when you are there, too.

 

[foresttwitcher]

There is (or was approx. 10 years ago) a roadside pub somewhere in the Chilterns (possibly Wendover/Great Missenden area?) called "The Firecrest" - whose pub sign was an otherwise fairly accurate painting of said bird with its head literally on fire!

Yep, still there Steve (& is about half-way between Wendover & Great Missenden) - the near-by Wendover Woods has been a good place for finding Firecrests.