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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This isn't everywhere. In German, many birds have pretty unique names: Amsel, Spatz, Kuckuck, Uhu, Eule and so on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

In Germany we have lots of names that are the descriptions. Stirnlappenbasilisk ist quite descriptive...

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