and when the settlers arrived your side of the pond they found none so the first reddish bird got named after their favourite of home.
Wow, I see, I never knew this! Thanks!
So it is like with
elk, when the settlers arrived over there, they named the red deer
as elk, since they could not find any real
elk over there. Later, when the discovered that there actually was real
elk over there, they did not have a name for it anymore since they already gave it away to the
red deer 
So they just thought for a second, and then called the re-discovered animal
moose, which is taken from native American language ...
By now,
elk is extinct in the UK, so people forgot about it mostly, but they still exist in some parts of Europe and therefore by Americans are sometimes called
European elk 
sorry for this deviation from the topic
nice shots by the way
.. the last one has the focus gone astray a bit. I really like the second one.
