100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time (birdhistory.substack.com)

My next 100 passwords are sorted.

Predicted Antwren is a new favorite. How interesting.

Inaccessible Island Rail (#6) is my favorite, because none of these words imply anything about what the species is going to be

The blue-footed booby deserves a place in the top 10, IMHO. But I see the competition is fierce.

Oh never knew the name Bananaquit. We call them "barika hel" (yellow belly) in Papiamentu or Suikerdiefje (lil' sugar thief) in Dutch.

Hard to believe that great tits weren't even mentioned

The Morepork is named after the sound it makes, you can listen to it here, https://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/morepork. OTOH some other birds named after their call like the Hadada sound nothing like it.