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She is a Baltimore oriole, and her name is Birdie McBirdface. âThe official name is Tessa Michelle Anna Striker Birdie McBirdface,â said Nikki Smith, a keeper at the North America region. âIt might be the longest name that one of the animals here has ever had.â And all for good reasons. The first two names refer to Tessa Wilhelm and Michelle Tremoulis, who played vital roles in this orioleâs survival story. Birdie was not more than two days old when Tremoulis recovered the chick from the North America Songbird Aviary on May 18, 2016.
Birdie. Birdie, meaning a score of one stroke under Par, comes from the early 20th century American slang term bird, meaning anything excellent. The September 1911 edition of Maclean Magazine described a golf shot as - 'bird straight down the course, about two hundred and fifteen yards.'.lthough the first noted use of the word par in golf was in Britain and predates the bogey, today's rating system does not and the par standard was not further developed until later. It was the Ladies Golf Association, who, from 1893, began to develop a national handicapping system for women.