Scots bird names
In spring and summer birdsong forms an audio backdrop to our lives, birds visit our gardens and we are cheered by the sights and sounds of birds around us. Scots is rich in language connected to birds.The Scots Language Centre explores this in a series of interviews carried out with RSPB officer Chris Rollie at Ken-Dee Marshes reserve near Loch Ken, Dumfriesshire in May 2010. We are grateful to the RSPB for their help in putting together this feature.
The gled and the peasie (kite and lapwing)
The merle or blackie (blackbird and ring ouzel)
The mochrum elder (cormorant)
Scotch canary (yellowhammer)
The phasie (pheasant)
The shelfie (chaffinch)
Black heidit seagulls (blackheaded seagulls)
Mallards and teals
Wood lark (tree pipit)
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