Ööbiku (Ööbik)
Nightingale (with a great stretch of the imagination and very soggy elastic, this word can be extended to contain one of if not the longest sequence of identical vowels in Estonian. Follow me: töö is work and öö is night so töööö is night-work (well, a work night), so a tööööööbik is a night-operating (i.e. ‑singing) nightingale [thanks to Ardo for this]). Of similar linguistic value is, perhaps, the 13-letter word for constipation in English, beginning and ending with ‘n’. Two species breeding in Estonia:
- Rubiinööbik, Siberian rubythroat, Luscinia calliope
- and plain old ööbik, thrush nightingale, L. luscinia
Which brings us to the end of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets. To start again, see Algi, but see also Sisaski. In the introduction, we mentioned dialects. One Estonian linguist, a certain Urmas Sutrop (anagram of Proust, I’m sure you noticed), analysing the migratory patterns of the Estonian nightingale and currently being measured for suits with very long arms, managed to classify regional expressions of departural desolation into no less than 17 laments, all along the lines of “Our nightingale has gone elsewhere this year”:
- Meie ööbik on tänavu mujale läinud (Standard Estonian)
- Meide ööbik aa seaesta maeale läin (Hiiumaa)
- Meite ööbik oo siasta mäale läind (Saaremaa)
- Meite üöbik uo sieoasta mõjale läin (Muhumaa)
- Meite ärjälend oo tänäkond maale läin (Läänemaa)
- Mede künnilind uu tänabö maeale läind (Vigala)
- Mede künniljõnd ond tänävasta maalõ läin (Kihnu)
- Mete üöbik oo tänabu maeal läin (Harju-Risti)
- Meie üöbik on tänävu muuale mend (Kuusalu)
- Me õitselind on tänavu maale läind (Järvamaa)
- Meie kirikiut one tänävu mojale lähänd (Põhja-Virumaa)
- Mei sisokaine ono (olo) tänä vuo mojale mennö (Vaivara)
- Meie sisask one tänävuade mõjale lähnud (Kodavere)
- Mee kiriküüt’ om täo muial lännü (Karksi)
- Meie tsisask om tinavu muiale lännu (Southern-Tartumaa)
- Mii sisask um timahavva muialõ lännüq (Võrumaa)
- Mii sisas’k om timahavva muialõ l’änüq (Setomaa)
Rähni (Rähn)
Woodpecker. The following breed in Estonia:
- Hallpea-rähn aka hallrähn, grey-headed woodpecker, Picus canus
- Laanerähn aka kolmvarvas-rähn, three-toed woodpecker, Picoides tridactylus
- Musträhn, black woodpecker, Dryocopus martius
- Suur-kirjurähn, great spotted woodpecker, Dendrocopos major
- Tamme-kirjurähn, middle spotted woodpecker, Den. medius
- Valgeselg-kirjurähn, white-backed woodpecker, Den. leucotos
- Väike-kirjurähn, lesser spotted woodpecker, Den. minor.
Part of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets.See also Rästa.
Pardi (Part)
Duck, teal, pintail, etc. Numerous species breeding in Estonia:
- Ameerika piilpart, green-winged teal, Anas carolinensis
- Ameerika viupart, American wigeon, A. americana
- Luitsnokk-part, northern shoveller, A. clypeata
- Piilpart, Eurasian teal, A. crecca
- Ristpart, common shelduck, Tadorna tadorna
- Rägapart, garganey, A. querquedula
- Rääkspart, gadwall, A. strepera
- Sinikael-part, mallard, A. platyrhynchos
- Sini-rägapart, blue-winged teal, A. discors
- Soopart aka pahlsaba-part, northern pintail, A. acuta
- Tulipart, ruddy shelduck, Tadorna ferruginea
- Viupart, Eurasian wigeon, A. penelope
Part, literally, of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets (see Pardiloigu for very witty pun…). See also Pöialpoisi. Modern classical-music lovers may not like to know that their favourite Estonian composer’s name translates, inter alia, as ‘Dignity Duck’.
Linnu (Lind) 
Bird, fowl, poultry – linnu viisil elama: lit. to live in the way of a bird, i.e. to live from hand to mouth. Joined together, Linnu tee becomes Linnutee (The Milky Way), sometimes also known as Piimatee (Milk Road, in Vigala), Linnurada (Bird Path, in Emmaste), as well as Kuretee (Stork Road), Taevapeenar (Heavenly Plant-Bed) elsewhere, etc.. Category name-bomber in the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets (but also name of the Ward). See also Luige.