... turkey. * Seabirds: (seagull), puffin, penguin, cormorant * Waterbirds: heron, stork, pelican, swan, kingfisher * Common wild birds: finch, wren, pigeon, sparrow, thrush, starling, robin, swallow, ... considered as an interesting phenomenon in language. In daily communication, people often borrow the WDBs for not only conveying the denotative meaning but also communicating and expressing speakers’ ... way of living. Thirdly, while the Vietnamese consider the WDB “én” as a messenger of spring because of the warm weather in spring in Vietnam, the WDBs “swallow” in English is not defined as...