Actually these birds show very little aggression in my experience. Their defense mechanisms seem to consist of flying away while screaming or acting wounded to draw you away from their ground nests.
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Yes⊠ALL the stinkhorns!
I had to look up the worm⊠HA! No Misidentifications! Go figure!!!
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Thatâs because youâre not a deer. If you were, you might not be here today to comment.
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No but I am a Dear.
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Maybe itâs a reference to their habit of attacking John Deere tractors with axes and hammers, ruining the engine?
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Yes! When I visited my relatives in Alberta last, there was a killdeer nest located right on the side of their quarter of a mile long rocky drivewayâit was nearly impossible to find it!! And every time I walked by, not even sure where the nest was located, the mama ran out screaming and dragging her wing to get me away from her babies. I wish I could have told her to just stay still and not jump out, because I never would have noticed the nest, and subsequently the babies.
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Did the Killdeer sponsor you to say this? Iâm pretty sure they did. ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY BY DA BIRDS, I SWEAR!
*obviously joking*
not sponsored by the killdeer
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If a hickorynut is not in the family Juglandaceae, what family is it in?
The family Unionidae (freshwater mussels).
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Their eggs do blend in very well on the ground. My example isnât very good as this nest is in the rock boundary of a parking lot. I shared also photos of the Killdeer parent faking injuring.
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See, this is a sensible Killdeer. In other words, not nesting on the asphalt. Or on a tarpaper roof. Iâve seen both.
Seriously, when Feral Pigeons and Mourning Doves start giving you the pained side-eye, itâs probably time to start rethinking some life choices. 
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Our masked lapwings here in Australia have exactly the same issue⊠Absolutely no sense about where to not build a nest! They especially favour roundabouts in the middle of multi-lane 80k/h roads
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A humbug is not a bug, itâs a fish.
Boopies are grasshoppers of the genus Boopedon, in which the oâs are in separate syllables. It seems to be Greek for âcow floorâ.
While identifying this morning, I saw lots of observations of mariposa copper (Tharsalea mariposa). SĂ, es una mariposa, but the scientific name and the English common name both include the Spanish word.
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Just like the silverfish is actually a bugâŠ
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And the Sandfish is a lizard.
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The Brick (moth)
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Some of Irena Dworakowksaâs (A Typhlocybinae expert) genus names are really worth of mentioning here - My personal favourite is âNiedoida (pl: niedojda - duffer).â as noted on Wikipedia along with other interesting generic names coined by her - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Dworakowska
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JejĂ©n is some sort of fly. Here itâs Culicoides in the midge family Ceratopogoninae, but Spanish Wiktionary says itâs in the black fly family Simuliidae (which has âjejenesâ as an alternate name) (both Chironomoidea). Apparently âjejeâ and âjijeâ (pijije, Anseriformes, see above) make me think âjajajaâ.
Rose sun star is an echinoderm. If a star and the sun rose together, it may be in cazimi.
Colgar is a planthopper. It also means âhangâ.
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Spined stilt bug or Jalysus wickhami reminds me of good old Mr. Wickham in Pride and Prejudice 
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I like common names that are not so descriptive of an animal or plant features, but refer to cultural practices or uses.
One plant that has funny common name in Spain is Colchicum montanum. Is called âquitameriendasâ because it comes in Autumn when the day shortens and so there is no more teatime (merienda). You just have lunch and then dinner. And in Asturian language is called âespantapastoresâ (kind of scare shepherds) because the shepherds leave the mountains when it appears.
Another common name that makes me giggle is âtapaculosâ, one of the common names for Rosa canina. It refers to the anti-diarrheic properties of the fruit.
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