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For ornithologists and lovebirds alike — please enjoy this curated list of nicknames for your significant other, selected from the Audubon Guide to North American Birds:

1. Tufted Titmouse
2. Emperor Goose
3. Starling
4. Magnificent Frigatebird
5. Golden-Crowned Kinglet
6. Glossy Ibis
7. American Bushtit
8. Blue-Footed Booby
9. Bananaquit
10. Smew

And, lest we fail to consider the inevitability of heartbreak, here are a few cutting insults that may prove useful after your separation:

1. Parasitic Jaeger
2. Limpkin
3. Bristle-Thighed Curlew
4. Bufflehead
5. Flammulated Owl
6. Lesser Prairie-Chicken
7. Ruddy Duck
8. Loggerhead Shrike
9. Dickcissel
10. Common Loon