May

  • Monthly Musings: Do you know your bog bluiter from your bogsucker?

    Monthly Musings: Do you know your bog bluiter from your bogsucker?

    in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy

    I suspect you wonder what I am talking about! These are common, colloquial names for the bittern and woodcock and in some respects are very evocative. Apparently a bluiter is a person or thing that makes a dull, heavy sound – a descriptive of the bittern’s boom I deduce – and bogsucker probably reflects that the woodcock feeds in soft ground using its long bill.

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