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trying to think which clubs have nicknames that relate to birds...I'm certain there are more but my Sunday morning brain can only think of the Robins, the Canaries and the Seagulls?

The Magpies.

The Swans.

Cardiff - Bluebirds. Not sure how that fits with their new red look though.

The Owls

Oxford United. Yellow Tits or Great Tits....

The Shitehawks.

Eagles

The eeagles

Bantams

If you look outside the UK, and I'm thinking S. Africa, Australia, S. America type places you'll get birds like Emu, Kiwi, Ostrich etc. Just depends how wide you want to extend this thread otherwise we will end up with just what we have up to now.

Don't know if it still applies but Peacocks - Leeds

please!

Got to say Robins is a totally naff nickname - really wuss sounding

Far too closely associated to 60's Dick Grayson. Maybe a re-brand to 'Nightwing' is in order.

Throstles.

Gulls

Harriers

Woking - Cardinals, though I don't know whether that was bird or Catholicism related.

Maybe but in the bird world they are mean mother fuckers actually.

Great Bustard

 Walsall, although nicknamed The Saddlers....were originally named Walsall known as Walsall Town Swifts, which is why they have a picture of a swift on their club badge...

Nicknames of clubs seem to either reflect local industry or are birds. I can understand why clubs use local industry as nicknames but what did the bird thing derive from?

Maybe that area has shit loads of those types of birds?

Yes, South Norwood Council has hell cleaning up the eagle shit.

A full 3 minutes after reading this, it's still making me laugh.

When one robin fights another they would normally fight to the death  :cunty:

I once accidentally caught a robin in a mouse trap, I was heartbroken for days  :(

And why do dozens of teams wear red, but only three, within a fifty mile radius of each other, all call themselves Robins? I suggest we leave the name to Brizzle, call ourselves Spartans (viz other threads re origin) and leave Cheltenham to find something else evoking redness. Cheltenham Nosebleed would be quite appropriate.

Robins are fucking cool. But it is a shit nickname.

Palace copied the Eagles nickname from Benfica as part of a re-branding exercise, for no reason other than they thought it was cooler. Were the Glaziers before that.

this is the sort of question that was puzzling me.

Eagles and owls are birds that invoke thoughts of ferocity and wisdom, challenging to opponents etc.

Robins? Christmas cards.

There are also some Orient fans that call themselves the Chicken Orientals, honestly

Wrexham used to too until recently, but then re-branded themselves as The Dragons.

Proves the rebranding works. Time to dump a nickname we don't use and, worse, share with rivals.

You Spartans!

If it was caught in a Robin trap the I'd feel for the little fella.

If he was caught in a mouse trap, however, I can only say that's natural selection at work. The stupid fucking thing.

I reckon Paolo would approve as it's derived from the soldiers (warriors) of Sparta.

Not sure we need a rebranding though. If everyone starts using it then they will be no stopping it.

A campaign for the TEF Pressure Group?

Start by gauging support with a poll? I'll put one up.

Did they ever do the Double?...

Was named after that bloke who used to front Crackerjack?  (CRACKERJACK!!!!!)

Showing my age

Who, Leslie Crowther?

His sidekick - Peter Glazier

Tubby, 4-eyed fecker

I think you'll find it was Peter Glaze.

I stand erected

putty you were wrong

Bustards would be a good bird nickname for us, reintroduced in Wiltshire

......mmmmmm,"dirty wiltshire bustards"

red kites?

But what about those Bustards in yellow and blue