re: Bird's Eye Pine/Knotty Pine/Pecky Pine: I'm Confused.

I think if you look on sites that sell birds eye woods you’ll see theirs look like the photos that Klaus posted. The links you posted In my opinion have not identified their wood correctly. The figure referred to as “birdseye” looks like eyes not just dots. even though there seems to be a number of folks that seem to be mislabeling their wood.
http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/birdseye-maple/