Hi all π Today’s Animals in Scots is the Paycock (Peacock); just goes to show that languages can be very similar!
All the Scots words for these posts are taken from The Concise English-Scots Dictionary, by the Scottish National Dictionary Association. The words chosen will be the generally accepted term, but as in all languages there are regional variations, as well as sub-species variations. For example, an owl is generally known as a hoolet in Scots, but an ool in Shetland & the NE. A barn owl is a white hoolet & a long eared owl, a hornnie hoolet.
Hae a guid day π
They are beautiful, but man oh man do they make the most horrific of sounds! LOL
I wandered what ne screeching! π