Locality where used and/or Usage
| LOCAL
GLOUCESTERSHIRE BIRD NAMES |
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| Most of these names were gathered from "A Treatise on the Birds of Gloucestershire" by W.L.Mellersh 1902 a delightful book, now almost certainly long out of print. | |||
| English Name | Scientific Name | Local Name |
Locality where used and/or Usage |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | Crane | General |
| Maule-Erne | Cotswolds | ||
| Starch | Stroud | ||
| Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | Barrow Duck | Severn District |
| Burrow Duck | Severn District | ||
| Pintail | Anas acuta | Sea-pheasant | Severn |
| Pochard | Aythya ferina | Dundiver | Severn ; Local (used for female) |
| Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | Blue-hawk | General |
| Common Buzzard | Buteo buteo | Shreak | Forest |
| Peregrine | Falco peregrinus | Duck-hawk | Severn ; Local |
| Pigeon-hawk | Cotswolds | ||
| Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | Jack-runner | General |
| Corncrake | Crex crex | Land-Rail | General |
| Coot | Fulica atra | Bald Coot | General |
| Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Sea-magpie | Lower Severn |
| Sea-pie | Lower Severn | ||
| Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Peewit | General |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Mud-lark | Severn ; Local |
| Purre | Avonmouth ; Very rare | ||
| Sea-lark | Severn | ||
| Sand-snipe | Severn | ||
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | May-bird | Severn |
| Common Sandpiper | Tringa hypoleucos | Summer-snipe | General |
| Gull spp | Sea-crow | Cotswolds | |
| Tern spp | Salmon-bird | Severn | |
| Sea-swallow | Severn | ||
| Guillemot | Uria aalge | Meere | Lower Severn |
| Murre | Lower Severn | ||
| Stock Dove | Columba oenas | Blue-rock | General |
| Scotch Queest | Forest | ||
| Woodpigeon | Columba palumbus | Queest | Forest |
| Queist | General | ||
| Quist | General | ||
| Zoo-zoo | |||
| Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | Fern-hawk | Cotswolds & Forest ; General |
| Fern-owl | Cotswolds & Forest ; General | ||
| Goat-owl | Rare | ||
| Night-hawk | Cotswolds | ||
| Wip-poor-Will | Cotswolds ; Rare | ||
| Swift | Apus apus | Devil Screecher | General |
| Screecher | General | ||
| Screek | General | ||
| Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | Cuckoo's Foot | Severn Vale ; Rare |
| Cuckoo's Mate | E.Cotswold | ||
| Snake-bird | Rare | ||
| Green Woodpecker | Picus viridis | Eeckle | Very common |
| Eequall | Very common | ||
| Green Ile | Slad | ||
| Hickwall | Very common | ||
| Laughing Betsy | Tortworth | ||
| Stock-eeckle | Cotswolds & Vale | ||
| Woodspite | Huntley | ||
| Yaffle | Uncommon | ||
| Yuckel | Tortworth | ||
| Great Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos major | Eequall | Mostly Cotswolds |
| French Magpie | Mostly Cotswolds | ||
| French Woodpecker | Mostly Cotswolds | ||
| Magpie-Ile | Cotswolds ; not common | ||
| Witwall | Huntley | ||
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos minor | Crank-bird | |
| Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | Titlark | General |
| Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava flavissima | Dishwasher | Distributed |
| Lady Dishwasher | Distributed | ||
| Pied Wagtail | Motacilla alba yarrellii | Dishwasher | Distributed |
| Lady Dishwasher | Distributed | ||
| Dipper | Cinclus cinclus | Didapper | Hillesley district |
| Water-blackbird | Forest & neighbourhood | ||
| Wren | Troglodytes troglodytes | Skiddy | Stow |
| Titty-wren | General | ||
| Dunnock | Prunella modularis | Aichee | Stroud |
| Akee | Stroud | ||
| Blue Isaac | Rare | ||
| Chubby | Cheltenham | ||
| Daddy-ike | Rare | ||
| Hedge-spike | Great Barrington | ||
| Molly Isaacs | Rare | ||
| Pinnock | Bourton | ||
| Shuttle-wing | Little Rissington | ||
| Spar | Severn ; General | ||
| Speere | Severn ; General | ||
| Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | Fire-brand | Forest |
| Fire-frantail | Forest | ||
| Fire-tail | Distributed | ||
| Red-tail | Distributed | ||
| Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | Fuzz-jack | Cotswolds |
| Gorse-chat | Forest | ||
| Gorse-jack | Forest | ||
| Stonechat | Saxicola torquata | Black-cap | Cotswolds |
| Gorse-chat | Forest | ||
| Gorse-jack | Forest | ||
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | Horse-match | Cotswolds ; Common |
| Passage-bird | Lower Severn | ||
| Blackbird | Turdus merula | Colley | Severn Vale & Berkeley |
| Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | Felt | General |
| Velly-bird | Corrupted from Felt pronounced Velt | ||
| Redwing | Turdus iliacus | Whin-thrush | Forest |
| Mistle Thrush | Turdus viscivorus | Screech-Thrush | General |
| Squeak-Thrush | General | ||
| Screech-Drossle | Vale, Gloucester & Berkeley | ||
| Snow-bird | Cotswolds | ||
| Storm-cock | Distributed | ||
| Stretch | Stroud | ||
| Strercher | Uncommon | ||
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Sag-chit | Distributed |
| Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Sag-chit | Distributed |
| Whitethroat | Sylvia communis | Haybird | General |
| Nettle-creeper | Distributed | ||
| Peggy Whitethroat | General | ||
| Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | Arbour-bird | Rare |
| Cuckoo's Mate | N.Cotswold & Forest ; Rare | ||
| Haybird | General | ||
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | Ox-eye | Cotswolds |
| Long-tailed Tit | Aegithalos caudatus | Barrel Tom | Rare |
| Bom-barrel | Cotswolds | ||
| Bottle-bird | Forest | ||
| Creak-mouse | Rare | ||
| Jacky-bopeep | Rare | ||
| Long-tailed Farmer | SE & SW Glos only | ||
| Long Tom | Thornbury | ||
| Mumruffin | Cotswolds | ||
| Oven-bird | Rare | ||
| Poke-Pudding | Thornbury | ||
| Great Tit | Parus major | Black-head | Distributed |
| Blacky-top | Distributed | ||
| Joe-bent | Rare | ||
| Nuthatch | Sitta europaea | Wood-jar | Uncommon |
| Treecreeper | Certhia familiaris | Daddy-ike | Near Gloucester |
| Eeckle | Cotswolds | ||
| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | Butcher-bird | General |
| Horse-match | Vale & Forest ; Not uncommon | ||
| Jay | Garrulus glandarius | Jay-pie | Rare |
| Magpie | Pica pica | Maggot | Distributed |
| Maggoty-pie | Distributed | ||
| Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Black Stare | Distributed |
| Stare | Distributed | ||
| Steer | Distributed | ||
| Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | Chink | Vale |
| Pea-finch | Cotswolds | ||
| Pie-finch | Cotswolds | ||
| Taggy-finch | Uncommon | ||
| Twink | Vale | ||
| Linnet | Carduelis cannabina | Lennard | Berkeley |
| Bullfinch | Pyrrhula pyrrhula | Hoop | Vale & Forest ; Common, Cotswolds ; Rare |
| Hawfinch | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | Cock-hoop | Bredon |
| Yellowhammer | Emberiza citrinella | Hammer-head | Aust |
| Spink | Distributed | ||
| Corn Bunting | Miliaria calandra | Bunt-lark | Severn Vale & Lower Cotswolds |