"Fleet Foxes second album ""Helplessness Blues"". The album's title, ""Stormcock"", is an old English name for the Mistle thrush (""Turdus viscivorus""). The male of this species ""is most vocal in the early morning"" and has a ""tendency to sing after, and sometimes during, wet and windy weather"" which ""led to the name ""Stormcock"""". It is also, perhaps, a metaphor for Harper himself. Harper has an appreciation of birdlife and has made reference to many birds within songs on his albums. The album was digitally remastered in 2007. The package included in a 20-page case-bound booklet with new pictures, prose and"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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'"
"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"
"Dictionary"" notes that the word alcatraz was originally applied to the frigatebird; the modification to albatross was perhaps influenced by Latin ""albus"", meaning ""white"", in contrast to frigatebirds, which are black. In modern Portuguese, the word used for the bird, ""albatroz"", is in turn derived from the English ""albatross"". They were once commonly known as goonie birds' or gooney birds, particularly those of the North Pacific. In the Southern Hemisphere, the name mollymawk is still well established in some areas, which is a corrupted form of ""malle-mugge"", an old Dutch name for the northern fulmar. The name ""Diomedea"", assigned to"
"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"
"a later invention. ""Storm"" arises from seamen's association of this bird with bad weather. In English, the name of the species was written as ""stormy petrel"" by some 19th-century authors. The scientific name derives from Ancient Greek; ""Hydrobates"" is from ""hudro"", water, and ""bates"", walker, and ""pelagicus"" is from ""pelagikos"", of the sea. There are two recognised subspecies, the North Atlantic nominate subspecies, ""H. p. pelagicus"" (Linnaeus, 1758), and the Mediterranean ""H. p. melitensis"" (Schembri, 1843). Although there is some genetic support for classifying the southern form as a separate species, the morphology is not considered sufficiently different from that"
"snowcock in that it does not have the drop in pitch at the end of the song shown by that species. The calls include loud cackles and bubbled ""buck-buck-buck-buck-burrrrrr"". Caspian snowcock The Caspian snowcock (""Tetraogallus caspius"") is a snowcock in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. It is found in the mountains of eastern Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and throughout the Alborz Mountains of Northern Iran. It breeds at altitudes from on bare stony ground with some alpine scrub. It nests in a bare ground scrape and lays 6–9 greenish eggs, which are incubated only by the"
"local names including ""guardabarranco"" (""ravine-guard"") in Nicaragua, Torogoz in El Salvador (based on its call) and ""pájaro reloj"" (""clock bird"") in the Yucatán, based on its habit of wagging its tail like a pendulum. In Costa Rica it is known as ""momoto cejiceleste"" or the far-less flattering ""pájaro bobo"" (""foolish bird""), owing to its tendency to allow humans to come very near it without flying away. Turquoise-browed motmot The turquoise-browed motmot (""Eumomota superciliosa"") is a colourful, medium-sized bird of the motmot family, Momotidae. It inhabits Central America from south-east Mexico (mostly the Yucatán Peninsula), to Costa Rica, where it is"
"Dunnock The dunnock (""Prunella modularis"") is a small passerine, or perching bird, found throughout temperate Europe and into Asia. Dunnocks have also been successfully introduced into New Zealand. It is by far the most widespread member of the accentor family, which otherwise consists of mountain species. Other common names of the dunnock include the hedge accentor, hedge sparrow, or hedge warbler. The name ""dunnock"" comes English ""dun"" (dingy brown, dark-coloured) and the diminutive ""ock"", and ""accentor"" is from post-classical Latin and means a person who sings with another. The genus name ""Prunella"" is from the German ""Braunelle"", ""dunnock"", a diminutive"
"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,"
"from any distance. The breast is darker and the flanks ruddier than the rest of the body. It has a white throat and a white patch on the side of the neck. The nape is rust-coloured. In flight, this wary bird shows white flight feathers and undertail, and reddish sides to the tail. Male and female plumages are similar, but the juvenile is slightly smaller and duller in appearance. Caucasian snowcock has a desolate whistling song, vaguely like a Eurasian curlew, ""sooo-looo-leeee"". The calls include loud cackles and bubbled ""buck-buck-buck-buck-burrrrrr"". Caucasian snowcock The Caucasian snowcock (""Tetraogallus caucasicus"") is a snowcock"
"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"
"crested coot, toed eagles, sandpipers, duck, quail, redstart, black redstart, merlin, black starling, starling, Flamingo, coot, horned coot, whiskered tern, black tern, pin-tailed sandgrouse, little egret, squacco heron, herring gull, Audouin's gull, black-headed gull, dark gull, purple heron, gray heron, barn swallow, red-rumped swallow, sparrow, house sparrow, tree sparrow, Spanish sparrow, jackdaw, honey buzzard, peregrine falcon, crested tit,blue- tit, goldfinch, eared owl, barn owl, kingfisher, heron, black kite, red kite, common blackbird, glossy ibis, chiffchaff, cattle egrets, teals, bittern, little egret, white wagtail, yellow wagtail, purple gallinule, penduline tit, woodcock, brown nighthawks, wood pigeon, shoveler, robin, spotted woodpecker, finch, woodpecker,"
"being of ""Least Concern"" because it has a wide distribution over an estimated and the number of mature birds is over 10,000 and not decreasing at such a rate as would justify their inclusion in a more vulnerable category. 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"
"Black-necked stork The black-necked stork (""Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus"") is a tall long-necked wading bird in the stork family. It is a resident species across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia with a disjunct population in Australia. It lives in wetland habitats and certain crops such as rice and wheat where it forages for a wide range of animal prey. Adult birds of both sexes have a heavy bill and are patterned in white and glossy blacks, but the sexes differ in the colour of the iris. In Australia, it is sometimes called a jabiru although that name refers to a stork"
"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"
"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,"
"a characteristic upperwing coloration in flight: the tertiary remiges form a green speculum, the secondaries and primaries are black, and the coverts (forewing) are white. Their diet consists of small shore animals (winkles, crabs etc.) as well as grasses and other plants. They were originally known as ""sheldrakes"", which remained the most common name until the late 19th century. The word is still sometimes used to refer to a male shelduck and can also occasionally refer to the canvasback (""Aythya valisineria"") of North America. The genus name comes from the French name ""Tadorne"" for the common shelduck. It may originally"
"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"