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[annathepiper]

This is the post where I talked about grabbing potential town or character names out of my bird book. It occurred to me that I was thinking about finding it the hard way in my journal--when what I really needed to do was just check the revision date on my file of names that I'd saved, and then see what posts I made around that time!

For reference, here is the complete list of bird names out of my file, as well: Whimbrel, Dowitcher, Willet, Dunlin, Gadwall, Brant, Sanderling, Merganser, Murrelet, Shearwater, Fulmar, Kittiwake, Godwit, Dotterel, Sora, Harrier, Veery, Vireo, Siskin, Verdin, Redstart, Parula, and Becard.

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[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

!!! ;)

I have a text file on my Palm Pilot where I keep track of road names, town names, random words on bulletin boards found as we drive places. Like Mossyrock, I think that's about my fave so far. :) Millersylvania's good too, though. Seabeck.

Somewhere I have a list of last names I collected while working in a campground- there were some awesome names that came through over the course of a summer. I loved the Mennonite ones, especially.

[annathepiper]

Cool! I love getting hit by random cool words and names that way. And anyone who knows me from Star Wars MUSH of course knows that I've already swiped "Veery" as the last name of Shenner... which I'll be using in her novel once I actually write the thing. ^_^

But I like a lot of these other bird names as well. Some of them feel like towns to me. Some of them would be really neat names for elves if I still played on Two Moons.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Don't forget James Bond, the noted British ornithologist. :-)

(And friend of Ian Flemming.)

[annathepiper]

I think "James Bond" has been used as a name already. ;)

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Steph Swainston used a lot of bird names for characters in Year of Our War. Dunlin, Swallow, and Tern are the ones I remember.

Petrel Vireo and Strix Varia have both served admirably as names for RPG characters around here. Dan always thought it would be amusing to bring in a Rufus Migratorius, too, but the campaign he was playing in ended before he got around to it.

[annathepiper]

Heh! I'm amused. It's official.