Comment les noms d’oiseaux les plus incompréhensibles ont-ils été choisis | How the most obscure bird names have been picked
Some bird’s names are still obscure nowadays. And if birds with silly names had a queen, it would be the black-winged kite, “élanion blac” in French. “Élanion” is not the problematic part, as it comes from the Greek “elanos”, meaning kite.