Longest Bird Names (1 Viewer)

[AmpelisChinito]

The Three-toed Woodpecker's name has been changed to the American Three-toed Woodpecker, so that ties the Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow with 27 letters.

 

[Eranou]

I you're allowed latinized names then 'Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus' or Crowned Slaty Flycatcher may be the longest at 35 letters long?

 

[Vultur]

So, it looks like our records are:

Common names:

World (current): Cachar Hills Wedge-billed Wren-Babbler (33)
World (former): Chinese Rusty-cheeked Scimitar-Babbler (34)

ABA Area breeder: Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow and American Three-toed Woodpecker (tied at 27)

Europe breeder: Unknown


Scientific names:

Binomen: Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus (35)
Trinomen: Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus aurantioatrocristatus (56)


... so, we still need the longest European breeder.

 

[birderbf]

I think it may be a three way tie for the ABA one: try Northern Beardless-Tyrranulet!

 

[StuartReeves]

I think its name has now been ruthlessly truncated now, but Ali & Ripley's old Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent gives the English name for Dinopium shorii as "Himalayan Goldenbacked Threetoed Woodpecker". I make that 40!

As a postscript, a check in the Grimskipp guide reveals that this fine beast now goes under the much less informative handle of Himlayan Flameback.

 

[Th_SQ]

Fun !

Using Excel + online list :

Nectarinia prigoginei, Prigogine's Double-collared Sunbird 35
Nectarinia stuhlmanni, Stuhlmann's Double-collared Sunbird 35
Rhinomyias addita, Streaky-breasted Jungle-Flycatcher 34
Lamprotornis chalybaeus, Greater Blue-eared Glossy-Starling 34
Serinus xanthopygius, Abyssinian Yellow-rumped Seedeater 34

Smallest is :

Psittirostra psittacea Ou 2 !!


Longuest scientific name is :

Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus (!) Crowned Slaty Flycatcher 36

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

I think its name has now been ruthlessly truncated now, but Ali & Ripley's old Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent gives the English name for Dinopium shorii as "Himalayan Goldenbacked Threetoed Woodpecker". I make that 40!

As a postscript, a check in the Grimskipp guide reveals that this fine beast now goes under the much less informative handle of Himlayan Flameback.

Communist cutbacks, I expect

 

[Edward woodwood]

Himalayan Orange-flanked Bush Robin (Himalayan form, now species of Red-flanked Bluetail)

thanks to Rasmussen's split, an armchair bluetail tick too.