"showed me where thy nest was, does tha' think I'd tell any one? Not me,"" he said. ""Tha' art as safe as a missel thrush."" ""Stormcock"", released in 1971, is the fifth album by English folk/rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper. The final verse of the Jethro Tull song ""Jack-in-the-Green"" from their album ""Songs from the Wood"" mentions the bird in the lines ""Oh, the mistlethrush is coming. Jack, put out the light."" The bird also features in the lyrics of The Decemberists' song ""Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga)"" from their 2009 album ""The Hazards of Love"":"
"Woodcock The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name was first recorded in about 1050. Only two woodcocks are widespread, the others being localized island endemics. Most are found in the Northern Hemisphere but a few range into the Greater Sundas, Wallacea and New Guinea. Their closest relatives are the typical snipes of the genus ""Gallinago"". As with many other sandpiper genera,"
"Woodcock The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name was first recorded in about 1050. Only two woodcocks are widespread, the others being localized island endemics. Most are found in the Northern Hemisphere but a few range into the Greater Sundas, Wallacea and New Guinea. Their closest relatives are the typical snipes of the genus ""Gallinago"". As with many other sandpiper genera,"
"Watercock The watercock (""Gallicrex cinerea"") is a waterbird in the rail and crake family, Rallidae. It is the only member of the genus Gallicrex. Traditionally held to be closely related to moorhens (which the adult male visually closely resembles), it is actually member of a mostly tropical Asian clade containing also ""Aenigmatolimnas, Amaurornis, Himantornis"" and ""Megacrex"". Their breeding habitat is swamps across south Asia from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to south China, Korea, Japan, Philippines and Indonesia. They nest in a dry location on the ground in marsh vegetation, laying 3-6 eggs. These large rails are mainly permanent residents"
"and its tendency to sing after, and sometimes during, wet and windy weather led to the old name ""stormcock"". The song may be heard in any month, although it is uncommon from July to August while the thrush is moulting. The main call, given by both sexes, is a dry chattering ""krrrr"", louder when it is alarmed or excited. It is often likened to the sound of a football rattle, a form of musical ratchet. There is also a squeaky ""tuk"" contact call. The mistle thrush breeds in much of Europe and temperate Asia, although it is absent from the"
"American woodcock The American woodcock (""Scolopax minor""), sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, is a small chunky shorebird species found primarily in the eastern half of North America. Woodcocks spend most of their time on the ground in brushy, young-forest habitats, where the birds' brown, black, and gray plumage provides excellent camouflage. Because of the male woodcock's unique, beautiful courtship flights, the bird is welcomed as a harbinger of spring in northern areas. It is also a popular game bird, with about 540,000 killed annually by some 133,000 hunters in the U.S. The American woodcock is the only species"
"of woodcock inhabiting North America. Although classified with the sandpipers and shorebirds in Family Scolopacidae, the American woodcock lives mainly in upland settings. Its many folk names include timberdoodle, bogsucker, night partridge, brush snipe, hokumpoke, becasse, twitterpate, little gomer, fiddle squeak, worm sabre, wafflebird, whipperwon't, bumblebee chicken, billdad, mud needle, prairie turtle, and crazy straw. The population of the American woodcock has fallen by an average of slightly more than 1% annually since the 1960s. Most authorities attribute this decline to a loss of habitat caused by forest maturation and urban development. In 2008 wildlife biologists and conservationists released an"
"Snowcock The snowcocks are a group of bird species in the genus Tetraogallus of the pheasant family, Phasianidae. They are ground-nesting birds that breed in the mountain ranges of southern Eurasia from the Caucasus to the Himalayas and western China. Some of the species have been introduced into the United States. Snowcocks feed mainly on plant material. Snowcocks are bulky, long-necked, long-bodied partridge-like birds. Males and females are generally similar in appearance but females tend to be slightly smaller and rather duller in colouration than males. They are generally grey with varying amounts of white, black and brown according to"
"Pacific koel The Pacific koel (""Eudynamys orientalis""), also known as the eastern koel, is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. In Australia, it is colloquially known as the ""rainbird"" or ""stormbird"", as its call is usually more prevalent before or during stormy weather. It has often been considered conspecific with the Asian and black-billed koels, but they are increasingly treated as a separate species. Alternatively, the population breeding in Australia has been considered a separate species, the Australian Koel (""Eudynamys cyanocephalus""), with the remaining taxa then considered subspecies of the Asian koel. The Pacific koel is found in"
"as adults. A study of vocalization noted that the duetting behaviour may indicate the possibility of short-term pair-bonding in its otherwise polygynous mating system. Pacific koel The Pacific koel (""Eudynamys orientalis""), also known as the eastern koel, is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. In Australia, it is colloquially known as the ""rainbird"" or ""stormbird"", as its call is usually more prevalent before or during stormy weather. It has often been considered conspecific with the Asian and black-billed koels, but they are increasingly treated as a separate species. Alternatively, the population breeding in Australia has been considered a"
"lay eggs in the nests of other birds (most often the closely related black-billed cuckoo), but they are not obligate brood parasites of other birds as is the common cuckoo of Eurasia. Yellow-billed cuckoo The yellow-billed cuckoo (""Coccyzus americanus"") is a cuckoo. Common folk-names for this bird in the southern United States are rain crow and storm crow. These likely refer to the bird's habit of calling on hot days, often presaging rain or thunderstorms. The genus name is from Ancient Greek , which means to call like a common cuckoo, and ""americana"" means ""of America"". Adults have a long"
"Australian shelduck The Australian shelduck (""Tadorna tadornoides""), also known as the chestnut-breasted shelduck or mountain duck, is a shelduck part of the bird family Anatidae. The genus name ""Tadorna"" comes from Celtic roots and means ""pied waterfowl"". They are protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974. Kukabrak (Ngarrindjeri) Yaraldi clan Mulbarapa would have known the Australian shelduck as their ngatji (totem) ""Nongkalalwori"" for millennia. William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby described the Australian shelduck in 1828. The males are mostly dark, with a chestnut breast. They have white neck collars and dark green heads. The females are similar,"
"postage stamps from several countries. Eurasian woodcock The Eurasian woodcock (""Scolopax rusticola"") is a medium-small wading bird found in temperate and subarctic Eurasia. It has cryptic camouflage to suit its woodland habitat, with reddish-brown upperparts and buff-coloured underparts. Its eyes are set far back on its head to give it 360-degree vision and it probes in the ground for food with its long, sensitive bill, making it vulnerable to cold weather when the ground remains frozen. The male performs a courtship flight known as 'roding' at dusk in spring. When threatened, the female can carry chicks between her legs, in"
"to many old or local names, including ""screech"", ""shrite"" and ""gawthrush"". Other names, including ""stormcock"" referred to its willingness to sing in wind and rain. ""Holm thrush"", ""hollin cock"" and ""holm cock"" are based on obsolete names for the holly tree, which may be defended by the thrush in winter for its berries. In Frances Hodgson Burnett's ""The Secret Garden"", Dickon reassures Mary Lennox that he will keep his knowledge of the garden secret by comparing her to a mistle thrush in defence of its nest, recognising his privilege in sharing her secret: ""If tha' was a missel thrush an'"
"hobby (""Falco subbuteo""), lapwing (""Vanellus vanellus""), curlew (""Numenius arquata""), green sandpiper (""Tringa ochropus""), Eurasian woodcock (""Scolopax rusticola""), common snipe (""Gallinago gallinago""), collared dove (""Streptopelia decaocto""), cuckoo (""Cuculus canorus""), long-eared owl (""Asio otus""), tawny owl (""Strix aluco""), common swift (""Apus apus""), hoopoe (""Upupa epops""), grey-headed woodpecker (""Picus canus""), European green woodpecker (""Picus viridis""), barn swallow (""Hirundo rustica""), house martin (""Delichon urbica""), tree pipit (""Anthus trivialis""), dunnock (""Prunella modularis""), redstart (""Phoenicurus phoenicurus""), wheatear (""Oenanthe oenanthe""), redwing (""Turdus iliacus""), mistle thrush (""Turdus viscivorus""), sedge warbler (""Acrocephalus schoenobaenus""), aquatic warbler (""Acrocephalus paludicola""), reed warbler (""Acrocephalus scirpaceus""), icterine warbler (""Hippolais icterina""), lesser whitethroat (""Sylvia curruca""),"
"that Eurasian woodcock flew to the moon during the months when they were not seen and the first full moon in November, when large numbers arrive on the British coast, is sometimes described as the 'woodcock moon'. Reaney and Wilson wrote that the English surname ""Woodcock"" developed as a nickname from the bird, meaning 'a fool, simpleton or dupe'. In William Shakespeare's play ""Love's Labours Lost"", Berowne describes himself and his friends as 'four woodcocks in a dish', after discovering they have all fallen in love when they have sworn not to. An old folk name for the goldcrest was"
"are the oystercatcher, many species of plovers, woodcock, common snipe, jack snipe, Eurasian curlew, common sandpiper, redshank and lapwing. About half of the European birds are passerines of the songbirds suborder. The more common of these include larks (skylark, crested lark, woodlark), swallows (barn swallow, sand martin, house martin), Motacillidae (tree pipit, meadow pipit, white wagtail, yellow wagtail), shrikes (red-backed shrike, great grey shrike), golden oriole, European starling, crows (magpie, jackdaw, hooded crow, rook, Eurasian jay), white-throated dipper, dunnock, Eurasian wren, Eurasian nuthatch, goldcrest, several warblers (reed warbler, sedge warbler, great reed-warbler, icterine warbler, Cetti's warbler, garden warbler, blackcap, whitethroat,"
"old English name for the goldcrest is the ""woodcock pilot"", since migrating birds preceded the arrival of Eurasian woodcocks by a couple of days. There are unfounded legends that the goldcrest would hitch a ride in the feathers of the larger bird, and similar stories claimed that owls provided the transport. Suffolk fishermen called this bird ""herring spink"" or ""tot o'er seas"" because migrating goldcrests often landed on the rigging of herring boats out in the North Sea. Goldcrest The goldcrest (""Regulus regulus"") is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family. Its colourful golden crest feathers gives rise"
"Red grouse The red grouse, ""Lagopus lagopus scotica"", is a medium-sized bird of the grouse family which is found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland. It is usually classified as a subspecies of the willow ptarmigan but is sometimes considered to be a separate species, ""Lagopus scotica"". It is also known as the moorcock, moorfowl or moorbird. ""Lagopus"" is derived from Ancient Greek (), meaning ""hare"", + (), ""foot"", in reference to the feathered feet and toes typical of this cold-adapted genus, and ""scoticus"" is ""of Scotland"". The red grouse is widely known as the logo of The"
"water only from dew and spray picked up from plant leaves suggesting that it may have been the basis for the idea that the ""chatak"" only drank raindrops. To compound the issues with matching vernacular names, it has been pointed out that in Bengal ""chātak"" also refers to skylarks (which are also crested). Jacobin cuckoo The Jacobin cuckoo, pied cuckoo, or pied crested cuckoo (""Clamator jacobinus"") is a member of the cuckoo order of birds that is found in Africa and Asia. It is partially migratory and in India, it has been considered a harbinger of the monsoon rains due"
"Jacobin cuckoo The Jacobin cuckoo, pied cuckoo, or pied crested cuckoo (""Clamator jacobinus"") is a member of the cuckoo order of birds that is found in Africa and Asia. It is partially migratory and in India, it has been considered a harbinger of the monsoon rains due to the timing of its arrival. It has been associated with a bird in Indian mythology and poetry, known as the ""chataka"" (Sanskrit: चातक) represented as a bird with a beak on its head that waits for rains to quench its thirst. The Jacobin cuckoo was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc,"
"Laughing falcon The laughing falcon (""Herpetotheres cachinnans""), also called the snake hawk (erroneously, since it is not a hawk), is a medium-sized bird of prey in the falcon family (Falconidae), the only member of the genus Herpetotheres. This Neotropical species is a specialist snake-eater. Its common and scientific names both refer to its distinctive voice. Its English name comes from its loud voice, as does the specific name ""cachinnans"", Latin for ""laughing aloud"" or ""laughing immoderately"". The generic name ""Herpetotheres"" refers to its preferred food; it is Latinized Ancient Greek, derived from ""[h]erpeton"" (ἑρπετόν, ""reptile"") + ""therizein"" (θερίζειν, ""to mow"
"Cardinal), ""Thryothorus ludovicianus"" (Carolina Wren), ""Nyctanassa violacea"" (Yellow-crowned Night-Heron), ""Lanius ludovicianus"" (Loggerhead Shrike), ""Melanerpes carolinus"" (Red-bellied Woodpecker), ""Aix sponsa"" (Wood Duck), ""Corvus brachyrhynchos"" (American Crow), ""Myiopsitta monachus"" (Monk Parakeet), ""Bombycilla cedrorum"" (Cedar Waxwing), and many others. The Shoal Creek Nature Conservancy conducted a bird walk in 2014 and saw or heard the following species: Wood Duck, Green Heron, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Spotted Sandpiper, Rock Pigeon, White-winged Dove, Mourning Dove, Chimney Swift, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Great Crested Flycatcher (heard), Blue Jay, Barn Swallow, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Northern Mockingbird, European Starling, Cedar Waxwing, Orange-crowned Warbler, Nashville Warbler,"
"Altai snowcock The Altai snowcock (""Tetraogallus altaicus"") is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. It is found in western Mongolia and adjacent areas of China, Kazakhstan and Russia. Its natural habitat is boreal forests. The Altai snowcock was first described by Frederic Gebler in 1836. He was a doctor and naturalist who lived in the Altai region for forty years and named many previously unknown species. There are two subspecies, ""Tetraogallus altaicus altaicus"" and ""Tetraogallus altaicus orientalis"". The Altai snowcock is a plump, partridge-like bird about long. The head and neck are slatey-grey and there is a partial"
"of the Central Australian Museum, believe that ""Bullockornis"" was related to geese and ducks. This, in addition to the bird's tremendous size and outdated carnivorous habits, gave rise to its colourful nickname. It may be somewhat inaccurate, however, as other studies have recovered dromornithids as more closely related to Galliformes. The bird's generic name is improperly translated as ""ox-bird"", and was named instead for the type locality for the genus at Bullock Creek, Australia. Bullockornis Bullockornis planei, nicknamed the ""Demon-Duck of Doom"" or ""Thunderduck"", is an extinct flightless bird that lived in the Middle Miocene, approximately 15 million years ago,"
"of the Anarchist Federation (Britain and Ireland). To honor Gorky and his work, the name ""Burevestnik"" was bestowed on a variety of institutions, locations, and products in the USSR. European storm petrel The European storm petrel, British storm petrel or just storm petrel (""Hydrobates pelagicus"") is a seabird in the northern storm petrel family, Hydrobatidae. It is the only member of the genus ""Hydrobates"". The small, square-tailed bird is entirely black except for a broad white rump and a white band on the underwings, and it has a fluttering, bat-like flight. The large majority of the population breeds on islands"
"Mourning dove The mourning dove (""Zenaida macroura"") is a member of the dove family, Columbidae. The bird is also known as the American mourning dove or the rain dove, and erroneously as the turtle dove, and was once known as the Carolina pigeon or Carolina turtledove. It is one of the most abundant and widespread of all North American birds. It is also a leading gamebird, with more than 20 million birds (up to 70 million in some years) shot annually in the U.S., both for sport and for meat. Its ability to sustain its population under such pressure is"
"Emma Goldman referred to Buenaventura Durruti as ""this stormy petrel of the anarchist and revolutionary movement"". The stormy petrel is also the mascot of Oglethorpe University, a small liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia. Northern storm petrel Northern storm petrels are seabirds in the family Hydrobatidae, part of the order Procellariiformes. The family was once lumped with the similar austral storm petrels in the combined storm petrels, but have been split as they were not closely related. These smallest of seabirds feed on planktonic crustaceans and small fish picked from the surface, typically while hovering. Their flight is fluttering and"
"Eurasian woodcock The Eurasian woodcock (""Scolopax rusticola"") is a medium-small wading bird found in temperate and subarctic Eurasia. It has cryptic camouflage to suit its woodland habitat, with reddish-brown upperparts and buff-coloured underparts. Its eyes are set far back on its head to give it 360-degree vision and it probes in the ground for food with its long, sensitive bill, making it vulnerable to cold weather when the ground remains frozen. The male performs a courtship flight known as 'roding' at dusk in spring. When threatened, the female can carry chicks between her legs, in her claws or on her"
"or hide between stones. Broods of more than one female have been found to form a single foraging group. Tibetan snowcock The Tibetan snowcock (""Tetraogallus tibetanus"") is a bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. This species is found in high-altitude regions of the Western Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau, where it overlaps in part with the larger Himalayan snowcock. The head is greyish and there is a white crescent patch behind the eye and underside is white with black stripes. In flight the secondaries show a broad white trailing edge. Smaller than Himalayan snowcock,"
"Marabou stork The marabou stork (""Leptoptilos crumenifer"") is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, in both wet and arid habitats, often near human habitation, especially landfill sites. It is sometimes called the ""undertaker bird"" due to its shape from behind: cloak-like wings and back, skinny white legs, and sometimes a large white mass of ""hair"". The name marabou is thought to be derived from the Arabic word ""murābit"" meaning quiet or hermit-like. The species was originally described in the stork genus ""Ciconia"" as ""Ciconia crumenifera"" by Lesson. The species"
"Hoatzin The hoatzin (""Opisthocomus hoazin""), also known as the reptile bird, skunk bird, stinkbird, or Canje pheasant, is a species of tropical bird found in swamps, riparian forests, and mangroves of the Amazon and the Orinoco basins in South America. It is notable for having chicks that have claws on two of their wing digits. It is the only member of the genus Opisthocomus (Ancient Greek: ""wearing long hair behind"", referring to its large crest), which in turn is the only extant genus in the family Opisthocomidae. The taxonomic position of this family has been greatly debated, and is still"
"Currawong Currawongs are three species of medium-sized passerine birds belonging to the genus ""Strepera"" in the family Artamidae native to Australasia. These are the grey currawong (""Strepera versicolor""), pied currawong (""S. graculina""), and black currawong (""S. fuliginosa""). The common name comes from the call of the familiar pied currawong of eastern Australia and is onomatopoeic. They were formerly known as crow-shrikes or bell-magpies. Despite their resemblance to crows and ravens, they are only distantly related to the corvidae, instead belonging to an Afro-Asian radiation of birds of superfamily Malaconotoidea. The true currawongs are a little larger than the Australian magpie,"