Are you a pesky crow or a popular robin?

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Researchers match email patterns with types of bird...

A team of academics at Glasgow University and the University of West of Scotland have paired email behaviour with different types of bird in a bid to help Britain's most boorish emailers clean up their act.

Dr Renaud added: “It is likely most people will be able to identify some of their e-mail correspondents with these behaviours and perhaps even recognise their own e-mail style.

The full list of email behavioural types:
Hibernating Poorwill: Reads email only occasionally so that senders can never rely on them.
Incommunicado Ostrich: Reads emails but doesn't reply to them. Often to be seen with the Hibernating Poorwill.
Caterwauling Peacock: Broadcasts emails to all and sundry, claiming that people 'need to know' when actually he is grandstanding.
Pesky Crow: Leans on others by means of email, sending multiple versions of the same document, or sending multiple emails about the same topic. This bird inspires fear and loathing in the hearts of other birds.
Buck-Passing Cuckoo: Sends emails to others asking them to carry out some task she should do herself, and then leaves quickly and mimics the Incommunicado Ostrich so that the unfortunate recipient is left carrying the baby.
Back-Covering Emu: Sends emails in order to be able to prove, at a later date, that the information was passed on.
Boorish Parrot: Sends abusive or inappropriate emails and fails to understand why others get upset by them.
Echolalia Mockingbird: A serial forwarder, sending chain emails, online petitions and anything else that takes his fancy. Most of these emails have a subject line starting with 'FW'. This bird is easily ignored by other birds, but doesn't know why.
Night Owl: The midnight emailer, who fails to understand that others do wish to have 'time out'. This bird flocks with the Lightning Response Hummingbird.
Hoarding Magpie: Keeps hundreds of emails in the inbox but can never find exactly the one they are looking for.
Lightning-Response Hummingbird: Responds immediately to email, and expects an immediate response in return.
Popular Robin: Simply does not allow email to dictate. They take the time to speak to people whenever possible and do not let email to take over their lives. This bird is the favourite amongst all the birds.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9554887/Are-you-a-pesky-crow-or-a-popular-robin-Researchers-match-email-patterns-with-types-of-bird.html

Answer 1

I started out as a Poorwill but I think I have mutated into a Robin.....



Others may not agree of course!

Answer 2

I'm a mongrel of the bird world.

A cross between a Hoarding Magpie and a Lightning-Response Hummingbird.

Answer 3

A team of academics at Glasgow University think birds send emails? sounds about right.

Answer 4

A team of academics at Glasgow University think birds send emails? sounds about right.

Answer 5

A Robin and a Magpie, I would much rather speak to people than correspond by email but I seldom delete emails until I get a notification that my inbox is full, then I have to housekeep and have a good clear-out.

Answer 6

When I'm working I'm a woodpecker.

The rest of the time Mocking Bird.

Answer 7

What about the Fulminating Fulmar: Regurgitating bile on anyone who disagrees. Could apply to many on thise site.

Answer 8

Either a -

Recalcitrant Raven or a P*ss Off Parrot! :)

Answer 9

What's email ?

Quack

Answer 10

I think they look at me on here as a Pesky Crow.