Because obviously half the bird population does not halve a black cap, just like most blackbirds are brown indeed.
But it’s a cute LBB (Little Brown Bird) and I was happy to take her picture.
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©Giliell, all rights reserved
©Giliell, all rights reserved
©Giliell, all rights reserved
The light is really interesting here. Is there a greenish ruff around the neck, or is that just an effect of the light filtering through green leaves?
And is this bird’s cap reddish-brown the way it looks to me on my screen? It’s an attractive bird regardless, but the lighting makes this picture really interesting and a bit confusing to me.
There’s no greenish ruff, just all light and fresh green leaves. The cap is reddish brown as this is a female one.
The sexist naming is rather common and happens in multiple languages, for example bullfinch is punatulkku in Finnish, but only the male is red (puna is the noun form for red). Luckily tits aren’t very sexually dimorphic…
However the extreme example for gendered naming in Finnish for wild birds has to be the capercaillie, the cock is ukkometso and the hen is koppelo and it is questionable if it was understood that they even were of the same species. This is somewhat understandable as they don’t look alike and the cock is twice as big as the hen and it isn’t only humans that get confused but also other landfowl, specifically black grouse cocks will sometimes mate with capercaillie hens, producing hybrid offspring.