Thursday, December 06, 2007


The Most common words used in naming the 9,948 birds of the world are:

White . . . . . . . . . . 704 birds

Black . . . . . . . . . . 620 birds

Bird . . . . . . . . . . . 585 birds

Yellow . . . . . . . . . 335 birds

Red . . . . . . . . . . . 320 birds

Warbler . . . . . . . 297 birds

Wing . . . . . . . . . . 285 birds

Gray/Grey . . . . . 273 birds

Head . . . . . . . . . . 256 birds

Blue . . . . . . . . . . . 224 birds

Green . . . . . . . . . 223 birds

Wren . . . . . . . . . . 223 birds

Brown . . . . . . . . . 158 birds

Hawk . . . . . . . . . 142 birds

Sparrow . . . . . . . 114 birds

Honeyeater . . . . . 108 birds

Collared . . . . . . . . 102 birds

3 comments:

Mary said...

What amazed me about these figures is that out of the 9948 birds of the world, I've seen only about .5%.

dguzman said...

you're just chock-full of birdy info! I like that "warbler" is so high on the list.

Susan said...

"Collared" surprises me - the only one I can think of is the Eurasian collared dove.