Genus Motacilla Puns

The Grey Wagtail

The Grey Wagtail’s scientific name is Motacilla cinerea, Motacilla originates from the Latin word mota, meaning ‘move’ or ‘shake’, which is the root for words such as ‘motive’ and ‘mobile’, and cinerea comes from the Latin for ‘ashes’ or ‘grey’, being the root for ‘cinders’ and ‘incinerated’.

Unlike a lot of scientific names which really cause you to scratch your head when trying to figure them out, this one is fairly straightforward and descriptive, as are the scientific names for our other two wagtails; Motacilla alba, for the ‘white’ Wagtail, more commonly known as the Pied Wagtail, and Motacilla flava, for the ‘Yellow’ Wagtail.

Pied Wagtail

The Pied Wagtail is black, white, and grey, it is the common ‘willie wagtail’ seemingly found everywhere in the British isles in places as diverse as city centre squares, the roofs of industrial units, dodging traffic on motorways to quieter places such as farmyards and fields in the deepest countryside.

The Grey wagtail is nothing like as common as the Pied, It is a slimmer bird, with an even longer tail that, like all wagtails, it continuously wags up and down, hence their genus’s collective common name, however, despite the common name of this species giving the impression that is dull in appearance it is anything but, being more yellow in colour rather than grey, with a brilliant, primrose yellow breast and under tail feathers, which contrast sharply with its upper parts which I would say are more blue than grey. Like other Wagtails the Grey has pleasant, twittering song song evolved to be heard over the rush of the water, and they chirrup constantly when flying in order to find out if there’s any other Wagtails about.

Yellow Wagtail

Both the male and female are similarly striking with the male having a black throat with white stripes both above and below the eye and the female the same but with a paler throat. You feel it should really be called the Yellow wagtail instead, but, unfortunately, this name has been taken by another, rarer, species that has even [more yellow to it](https://www.reddit.com/r/FoBImages/comments/q7lv5j/yellow_wag

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

“BOOM”?!