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Norfolk Birdnames
Items marked Skip are mentioned in more detail in Keith Skipper's
book
"Larn Yarself Norfolk".
| English | Norfolk |
| Pronounced |
|---|
| bearded tit |
reed-pheasant |
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| bittern (1) |
buttle |
|
bu(tt)l |
| bittern (2) |
bottle-bump |
|
baartl- |
| black-headed gull |
puet |
|
pue(t) |
| bluetit (1) |
oven-bird |
Skip |
-baad |
| bluetit (2) |
pick-cheese |
|
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| bluetit (3) |
tidiff |
|
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| bullfinch |
blood-ulf |
|
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| chaffinch |
spink |
|
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| coot |
baldie-coot |
Skip |
-coo(t) |
| crow (carrion) |
Harry the Denchman |
Skip |
|
| curlew (stone) |
thick-knee |
|
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| duck (shell) |
bay-duck |
|
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| duck (wild) |
smee |
|
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| Eng. partridge |
greybird |
|
greybaad |
| fieldfare |
mislen-bird |
|
-baad |
| French partridge |
Frenchman |
|
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| goldcrest |
herrin(g)-spink |
|
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| goldfinch (1) |
King Harry |
|
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| goldfinch (2) |
draw-water |
|
-wa(t)er |
| great tit |
bee-bird |
Skip |
-baad |
| grebe (little) |
didopper |
|
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| greenfinch |
greenulf |
|
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| green woodpecker |
rainbird |
|
rairnbaad |
| guinea-fowl |
come-back |
Skip |
|
| gull (black-headed) |
puet |
|
pue(t) |
| gull (sea) |
cob |
|
caarb |
| hedge sparrow (1) |
dunnock |
|
|
| hedge sparrow (2) |
hedge betty |
|
...be(tt)y |
| hedge sparrow (3) |
shufflewing |
|
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| heron (1) |
Diddleton Frank |
Skip |
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| heron (2) |
frank |
|
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| heron (3) |
harnser |
|
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| jackdaw |
caddow |
|
cadder |
| lapwing (1) |
hornpie |
|
hornpoi |
| lapwing (2) |
wyper |
|
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| lapwing (3) |
pie-wipe |
|
poi-woip |
| little grebe |
didopper |
Skip |
|
| long-tailed tit (1) |
bottle-tom |
|
baar(tt)l-taarm |
| long-tailed tit (2) |
pudding-poke |
Skip |
puddin-p@k |
| long-tailed tit (3) |
oven-bird |
Skip |
-baad |
| meadow-pipit |
tit-lark |
|
ti(t)-lark |
| missel-thrush |
fulfer |
|
|
| nightingale |
barley-bird |
|
-baad |
| nightjar (1) |
goat-sucker |
Skip |
g@t- |
| nightjar (2) |
razor-grinder |
|
rairzor-groinder |
| Norfk. plover |
thick-knee |
|
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| owl (1) |
jill-(h)ooter |
|
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| owl (tawny etc.) |
billywix |
Skip |
|
| owl (2) |
will-o-wix |
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| oyster-catcher (2) |
sea-pie |
Skip |
-poi |
| oyster-catcher (1) |
olive |
|
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| partridge (Eng.) |
greybird |
|
greybaad |
| partridge (red-legged) |
Frenchman |
Skip |
|
| pied wagtail (1) |
Nanny Dishwasher |
|
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| pied wagtail (2) |
Polly Dishwasher |
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| pigeon |
ring-dow |
|
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| pigeon (wood) |
dow |
|
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| plover (Nfk.) |
thick-knee |
|
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| red-legged partridge |
Frenchman |
|
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| redshank |
tewk |
|
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| redwing |
French mavis |
|
...mairvus |
| ringdove |
ring-dow |
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| sandpiper |
summer snipe |
|
-snoip |
| seagull |
cob |
|
caarb |
| shell-duck |
bay-duck |
Skip |
|
| snipe |
summer lamb |
Skip |
|
| song-thrush |
mavis/mavish |
|
mairvus/mairvish |
| sparrow |
[See Hedge] |
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| stone curlew |
thick-knee |
|
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| swift |
develin |
Skip |
devlun |
| tawny owl |
billywix |
|
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| thrush (missel) |
fulfer |
|
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| thrush (song) |
mavis/mavish |
|
mairvus/mairvish |
| tit (bearded) |
reed-pheasant |
|
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| tit (blue) 1 |
oven-bird |
Skip |
-baad |
| tit (blue) 2 |
tidiff |
|
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| tit (blue) 3 |
pick-cheese |
|
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| tit (great) |
bee-bird |
Skip |
-baad |
| tit (long-tailed) 1 |
bottle-tom |
|
baar(tt)l-taarm |
| tit (long-tailed) 2 |
pudding-poke |
Skip |
puddin-p@k |
| tit (long-tailed) 3 |
oven-bird |
Skip |
-baad |
| turkey-cock |
stag |
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| wagtail (pied) 1 |
Nanny Dishwasher |
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| wagtail (pied) 2 |
Polly Dishwasher |
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| whinchat |
furrow-chuck |
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| whitethroat |
hayjack |
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| wild duck |
smee |
|
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| woodpecker (green) |
rainbird |
Skip |
rairnbaad |
| woodpecker |
woodsprite |
|
woodsproi(t) |
| wood pigeon |
dow |
|
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| wren |
stag |
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| yellowhammer |
guler/guleham |
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| young (flyer?) |
full-flopper |
Skip |
-flaarper |
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