Isolde Willems❣

I clearly have some work to do... Both in terms of viewing all of these (Hispaniolan Emerald is my most exotic thus far), and my life goal of being a professional namer-of-things.

Fiery throated metaltail! \m/><\m/. Only ever seen hummingbirds on Vancouver island and by seeing I mean a brief flicker as they whooshed past... so tiny!

These are awesome... although Rufous-booted racket-tail and White-necked jacobin sound a little like 19th century insults.

And then there's the shearwater species... My favorite is Sooty Shearwater, which when I lived in Oregon would sometimes be found in great numbers fairly close to shore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shearwater_species

I worked for a company called Hummingbird. All our meeting rooms were named after hummingbird species. We did not have 360 rooms, though.

Some wonderful, evocative names there. I love the way that many common names for old world (at least) birds come from corruptions of Old English descriptions of their qualities. Godwit = good to eat (though I'd rather people didn't, even if it's true); wheatear = white-arse. My favourite common name for a species is a new world bird, though. The scale-crested pygmy tyrant.

I guess I shouldn't be, but I'm also surprised how many geni there are.

Nothing’s going to beat the Bearded Mountaineer.

It is like reading character names and descriptions from a fantasy novel.

Love these creatures

Wow!

Sarah Reisch

I hear the hoary pufflegs are crowdfunding a request for a name change. Who wouldn't rather be a purple-backed sunbeam?