It's not short for anything nor based on a bird! It's funny, it's from a set of novels by David and Leigh Eddings that I was into as a kid, and I was really into the name because I felt it disconnected me from the practices of my own family with my government name. There's more of a story there but it winds up in a real bummer of a place, so I'll just leave it at "I was given it when I joined a circle of fans of a fantasy book series I liked."
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in reply to @TalenLee's post:
oh my god I have for years now occasionally wondered to myself if your use of Talen was from those novels at all lol
100%! It was from the alt.fan.eddings newsgroup, where because I was 14 years old, the existing fans called me 'The Boy'
this is very fair, but i was mostly just trying to be clever while complimenting you!