Best Scots words for animals from cushie doo to yellae airsie

In Scotland, the range of words used as names for our animals are as varied (and fascinating) as the country's wildlife.

From birds like owls and wood pigeons to wee beasties like spiders and wasps, us Scots have some belting names for most creatures.

Some are well known (coo for cow and dug for dog) while others are less so (the Scots for parrot is papingo), here are our favourites.

Baudron - Cat

Brock  - a badger

Bubbly Jock - turkey

A curious brock (Getty)

Buckie  - a whelk

Bum clock - flying beetle.

Chook - Chicken

Chulfie - chaffinch

Clappy doo  - a mussel

Clipshear/forkie tail/horny gollach - earwig

Corbie - Raven

Cushie doo for a wood pigeon.

Doo - pigeon

Ettercap  - a spider

An annoying ettercap (Getty)

Foggy bummer  - a bumble bee

Futret  - a weasel/ferret

Groaty buckie  - a winkle

Hoolet  - an owl

Hoggie - a lamb

Hurcheon  - a hedgehog

Jeck wi the monie feet  - a centipede

Mappie - rabbit

Mavis  - a song thrush

Mowdie  - a mole

Partan  - a crab

Papingo - a parrot

Pishmire/Pishminnie  - an ant

Puddock  - a frog

A wee Foggy bummer (Getty)

Sea hurcheon  - a sea urchin

Slater  - a woodlouse

Spoots  - razor clams

Spottit reidcoat/Clockleddy  - a ladybird

Spug - house sparrow

Yellae airsie  - a wasp