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They have had ridiculously terrible injury luck for the last three seasons but finally got everyone back and healthy at the same time in December, plus it looks like they got the steal of last year’s draft in Knueppel.

Cape May is correct.

25 yds from goal and he has days to sit there and pick the pass.

Yeah I think of tapes as something very different.

Am I the out of touch one here? Pishing has always read to me as a benign way to engage the natural curiosity of common resident species. The birds investigate, maybe yell at you a bit, and then move on.

There’s an odd aversion in the Reddit birding community to pishing, putting it up with abuse of playback in terms of potential bird stressors to be avoided and I can’t say I get it.

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

“Stuck in 1987” explains the Colombia stuff too, because the country is a modern and safe democracy now and hasn’t been in the thrall of the cartels in many many years.

The worst is when people apply this mindset to the grassroots officials that work their kids’ games.

Now you tell me.

I used to carry like 5 or 6 phone cards in my wallet because I wasn’t sure which ones had minutes left on them.

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This is the most bonkers snake behavior I have ever seen. I am legitimately gob-smacked.

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I once heard Black Bears described as "bigger, dumber raccoons", and nothing I've ever seen has suggested that wasn't a bang-on characterization.

A reminder to leave Twitter.

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I think Jota’s death affected the locker room both on the field and off it in ways that haven’t really been fully realized.

It’s a superfamily. I wouldn’t align against it.

That’s me! In honor of the Grue Jay I came up with a list of other potential hybrids that’d have cool names.

Mt favorite was Smooth-billed Ani x Groove-billed Ani aka the Smooth Groove Ani aka The Steely Dan Ani.

Has anyone ever seen a hybrid of Blue-winged Teal and Green-winged Teal and why isn't it called a Teal-winged Teal?

Suck it robots!

red-shouldered hawk

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That may be true (re infrastructure and fund-raising), but it seems like it wouldn't be an overwhelming advantage in a small, low-population state like Maine. It shouldn't take a ton of money for an outsider to run a competitive primary campaign there, especially if he's smart about it.

08-45: Hybrid Chickadee Challenges with Amber Rice and Scott Taylor Podcast Episode · The American Birding Podcast · 11/07/2024 · 44m

Apple Podcasts creates an automatic transcript that is mostly good.

You can find it here.

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I’m pretty sure they just reused the Grimace prosthetics for the Little Face character.

The McDonald’s tie in is actually the part I remember most about it.

09-41: Take It or Leave It: Trumpeter Swans, Probability, and the Internet of Birding - American Birding Association

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I got the Collins Guide 2nd ed, the Susan Myers Bird Names book that I only have in a .pdf, and three guides to Caribbean birds that more or less give me complete bird coverage of the western hemisphere.

I just bought $160 worth of nature books for $60 including shipping.

I didn't need them. But I got them anyway.

The new edition of the Collins guide to Europe is in here, by the way.

Organically, I swear!

Not to spoil this week's Take it or Leave it episode of the American Birding Podcast, but we manage references to The Simpsons, Futurama, Arrested Development, AND Back to the Future in there.