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Sniper (a hidden marksman) is named after the bird (which is difficult to shoot). The color teal is named after the teal bird's color.

Scarecrows should actually be called scarerooks, as rooks are usually found in groups amd can cause more crop damage than the more singular crow.

Eye-skip, or parablepsis: when a scribe miscopies a portion of text because they skip to the next instance of the word on a different line from the one they were copying.

THERE'S A WORD FOR THIS xD

Blackbird comes from when the vernacular distinguished smaller songbirbs as birds and larger birbs as fowl, which is why larger corvidaes aren't blackbirds but the smaller blackbirds are. (Brid/bird originally, originally was used only for baby birbs--fowl was used for all adult birbs, but this slowly changed into the above.)

Kingfishers were called ise(r)n in OE for their iron (blue) color.

Plumbeous=lead color

Most bestiaries were unillustrated, since they seemed to exist more for moral & Christian allegories than a "field guide."

The classifying of what is and isn't a bestiary is very confusing--this first essay just is too scholarly based for a layperson's "intro."

They seem to be like supplementary bonus features to many MS's, the way they were inserted into some after already having existed as "pamphlets" of sorts.