Regional names for birds

I'll keep it clean

Black duck- Obama duck or you guys can use your racial imagination

Scaup- broadies

Snow geese - snowies

Coot - cooter
 
Duck slang is about the same but non duck waterfowl seen on water is as follows
Cormorants- Mexican turkey
Blue Herons- Pterodactyl
Any type of a big flock of blk birds - Shit birds.
Gulls- flying rats, beach rats.
Grebes- damn grebe (usually because they come in from blindside and spook the hell out of ya) Hence" Damn Grebe'
(My youngest son was about 12 when one day he spurted out hey look at that flock of shit birds. I had to explain to him that it was the name only for in duck boat. Not backyard with mom standing there.)
Other blind slang
Ham and egger- guy who shows up late (must of stopped for ham and eggs breakfast) and sets up as sun is coming up, beside you.
Bucket brigade- idiots that line shoreline or points with white 5 gallon buckets to sit on.
 
Aside from the already mentioned here.
Hooded Merg- Pond fisher
Ruddie- Hard head
Heard these mostly from old timers so I use them, John
 

Cormorant- Double ender
Merganser- Lawn dart, sawbill
Heron- pterodactyl
Grebe- the General- shortend from General Grevious from star wars
Shoveler- Hollywood because they have that big smile
Teal- barrel burners
Coot- the armada, because there is always a crap load of them swimming around like some giant naval fleet
Widgeon -robber
any singular duck flying - The network, from the older Cingular wireless ads "Its the Network adds"
 
Down in Texas, we hunted Black Bellied Tree Ducks. My buddy, Fred, set up 3 resident populations of Black Bellies, with the help of Research Assistants (working on their PHD).
We referred to those ducks as ....... "What Ducks". There was also an organization called "What Duck". Reason for the name...when somebody would ask about the name of those ducks and you told them "Black Bellied Tree Ducks"...people would reply with......."What duck"???? Thus...the name.
Lou
 
Gadwall- always gaddies, likely because we see zero drakes in breeding plumage
Redheads- apple heads
Mallards- greenheads
Wood ducks- squeelers, acorn eaters
Coot-water chicken
Wigeon-baldpate, robber ducks
Ringnecks-ringbills
Canada geese-honkers
Sandhill cranes-bombers, rib-eyes, pterodactyls
 
Forgot to mention Stiff Tail for Ruddy.

That reference to Dollar Duck sure goes back a long way. I haven't heard them called that for a long time and then it was by an old timer.
 
Coot is a poule d'eau down on the bayou.
Gadwalls: grey ducks & gaddies.
Who knows what a dos gris is???
 
Don't know if this counts, but a running joke we have is that any two ducks is "a pair of loners...."

We always seem to call singles "loners".... and it was a loner kind of day i.e. loner high, loner left, loner over the trees, etc., when all of a sudden TWO ducks were flying together and my buddy says, "...pair of loners...."

That was 10 years ago. Don't know if it's spread regionally yet :)
 
Don't know if this counts, but a running joke we have is that any two ducks is "a pair of loners...."

We always seem to call singles "loners".... and it was a loner kind of day i.e. loner high, loner left, loner over the trees, etc., when all of a sudden TWO ducks were flying together and my buddy says, "...pair of loners...."

That was 10 years ago. Don't know if it's spread regionally yet :)


At about the same time I think we did that too. "Pair of loners" Classic! I think we got all the way to "Flock of loners". :)
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spoon bill - turd eater, spoonies, smiling duck, sewer skimmers, strainers, clown mallard
coot - knuckle dragger, swamp chicken, mud duck, mud chicken, mud hen, disco ducks (the way they move their head when they swim)
Hen Mallard - Suzy
Mallard - park duck
Scaup - bluebies
Bufflehead - pink foot
Redheads - Annies (don't ask why)
Gadwall - Gaddys
Teal - jets, rocket ducks, swamp bats
Snow Goose - sky carp
Wood Duck - Woodro
Canada Geese - honkers, chin straps
Seagulls - Short Necked Snow, Dumpster Ducks, Garbage Geese, Walmart Duck
Grebe - hell diver
Swans - Alabama snow geese
Hooded Mergansewr - Mad Max

Mark W
 
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I like~ "Swans - Alabama Snow Geese" :)

Also have the joke that if you yell "Rooster" before it hits the ground, the hen rule for pheasants doesn't apply.... joking, of course.

Like telling out of staters that stop signs with the reflective stripe around them are optional....
 
When hunting in ND years ago, the locals called Gadwalls 'sotta' ducks because hunters from Minnesota came over and shot so many of them.
 
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