Need help

[matcho]

Ok,

This really doesn't come into the finch forum thingo, but I am doing a massive big crossword and the only thing that stumps me is this "Black-Faced Cuckoo-Shrike... {coll}" It has 6 letters starts with "b" and ends with "s". I have no idea.... Buzzard, Ray ...where are you?

[Tiaris]

I always called them bluejays growing up if that helps??

[matcho]

I always called them bluejays growing up if that helps??

Me too, had beautiful eggs (I used to be an egg collector up until 20).... cicada bird. shufflewing is all I can find. Sheesh!

[vettepilot_6]

Bluies what qld call them

[matcho]

Bluies what qld call them

Thanks Vette, still doesn't help, second letter is "i" 4th is "c" 6th is "s". I know the second letter is "i" because the clue is "young goose= gosling."

This is going to kill me for a week.

[arthur]

Blue Jays up this way, as well

I also shared your 'bad' habit as a youngster Matcho . . a lot more innocuous than what kids get up to today . . and never wiped out any species . .

Lucky I wasn't killed with some of the trees I climbed . . and luckily the 'oldies' didn't know or they would have killed me anyway




Checked my crossword 'cheat-site' . . "NO RESULTS FOUND"

[E Orix]

Try BIFCUS it's New Zealand origin

[matcho]

Try BIFCUS it's New Zealand origin

Thanks David,
Now I can sleep.

Ken.

[Tiaris]

Is that the genus name?

[matcho]

Is that the genus name?

Tiaris,,
From what I can see (after a bit of digging around) it is a word derived from the letters of its name BFCS. The BIF bit I don't quite get but the CUS supposedly is a short form of "cuckoo-shrike". I can see birders using it in their notes when they are observed rather than the full name. Make sense?

Ken.