Actually my favorite bird etymology is that in 1400s England they gave human nicknames to birds (Jenny Wren, Tom Tit) but some of them stuck. Jack Daw became Jackdaw, Maggie Pie became Magpie. With Robin Redbreast, they just dropped the original name of the bird entirely. https://t.co/F23Yj4IHoh pic.twitter.com/tNrEQwvwO9
— Robert Francis (@rbfrncs) July 29, 2025
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