Went to a practice ground this morning where I was offered the following "birds":
Startled partridge away
Rising mallard & mallard away
Rising partridge & slow partridge
Varied pheasant & low woodcock
Startled woodcock & looper
Crossing partridge & crossing pheasant
Slow woodcock & quartering partridge
Driven pheasant
Rabbit & overhead duck
Incoming pigeon & teal
Are there "standard" names for different clays? To me they're all clay discs of differing sizes at different projections, once I've seen a pair I can work out how to "kill" them (even though I frequently don't). Let's face it, they can't jig around in the sky like real birds and, as has been said before, clay shooting is diverging from game shooting all the time. Also today, with the wind, they were not behaving the same as they would have been yesterday, "birds may vary".
Edited for typo,