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Furness Dialect Dictionary
Birds |
 beck bibby - water ouzel or dipper |
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Furness Dialect Dictionary
Birds
beck bibby - water ouzel or dipper
- sparra - a sparrow
- hemplin - hedge sparrow
- spink - chaffinch
- chepster - starling
- throstle - song thrush
- shircock - missel thrush
- fell-faa - fieldfare
- chitty - wren
- miller thoum - willow warbler
- bessy - Yellow Hammer
- laverock - lark
- pîat - magpie
- craa - rook
- middin craa - carrion crow
- hullet - owl (all species)
- jammy crane - heron
- grundlin - ringed plover
- stæan-check - stone chat
- neet haak - night-jar
- gleead - kite
- maa - a seagull
- skeldræk - common sheld duck
- douker - a diving duck: generally a common scoter
- scarf or scarth - a cormorant
- sparlings - Lesser terns
- seea pîe - oyster catcher