I’m not a birder, but I knew about LBJ’s (Little Brown Jobs).
I just learned about some similar terms for other taxa:
Do you know any others?
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Two I’ve used in my field journals for many years:
“Clave Swallows” (Cliff or Cave?)
“Baltilock’s Oriole” (Baltimore or Bullock’s?)
These are usually applied to flocks of birds not studied carefully, and/or immature/female birds.
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FYP: neither “For Your Page” nor “Fixed Your Post” but “F*cking Yellow Plant” for dandelions, hawkweeds and the likes
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Similarly, there is also Baypoll Warbler for Blackpoll/Bay-breasted Warbler.
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LBM = little brown mushroom or little brown moth.
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This is unofficial, but jlisby has very accurately described my lichen observation of a bunch of similar crustose/leprose lichens all growing mixed up in the same spot as “The Mess”. And that is what I’ve been calling these occurrences since.
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Plants almost too tiny to notice are called dinkophytes, but it is more of a term of endearment
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IE: Impossible Empids.
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… and don’t forget “Cacklada Geese”!
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Also known as “belly plants” (for the observer’s bodily position).
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