Not as Scottish.
Ask an Englishman the common name for a Hedge Accentor (Hedge Sparrow) and, if he knows, he'll probably say "a Dunnock". Ask a Scot, or a Cumbrian (Can't vouch for Geordies etc.) and we'll say "a Blue Dykie"
HOWEVER
I've just checked to see what "them up there" call a Chaffinch; and it is NOT "a Scoppie" which we grew up calling them, it's "a Shelfie" says the Internet. B T W - they. also say a Goldfinch is a "Gold shelfie"
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