Still, I can't help noticing that you do actually know the Latin name for the Blackbird - although, of course, it is only the hapless "Twitcher" who is the 'tedious nerd' - not you.

Touché!

Thing is, we did a song a few years back based around a sort of folk-dream I once had which became a story. I did the storytelling & my wife sang all these Latin bird names over it as a sort of hymn to our feathered friends and a lot of the names stuck fast. You can hear this at our Myspace Page as BIRD (selection #2 on the music player).