Bird Nomenclature

From Greg Ross at Futility Closet, I learn that an eriff is a two-year-old canary. Why there should be a specific word for a two-year-old canary is a deep and abiding mystery, at least to me.

And Thomas Nashe, in his Lenten Stuff, suggests that another name for a kestrel is a windfucker.

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