
Canada goose masquerading as human. PhD candidate @UMBCBiology. permitted bander. birds, grasslands, knitting, pens, yiddish, socialism. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
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humiliation ritual: uploading a recording of a meeting you're leading to google drive and seeing the transcript reveal how much you say um
in New Jersey traffic, driving past the former location of Fountains of Wayne… do the other motorists know we’re on hallowed ground
decided to (re)learn how to crochet with the yarn scraps from this hat and made my first granny square (in 20 years) but now I have even more ends to weave in… I played myself
real birders don't have any species on their life list because species delimitations are an anthropogenic concept
my opinions: 1) obviously this is wrong, but 2) this is also clearly a new birder who will likely eventually realize the faults in this way of thinking; and 3) people are being very harsh, and some of the harshest responses I’ve seen are from similarly new birders…
Best in Maryland:
Gull: Bonaparte’s
Warbler: Blackburnian
Duck: Surf Scoter
Raptor: Kestrel
Owl: NSWO or ABOW
Corvid: Common Raven ofc
Woodpecker: Red-headed
Finch: Red Crossbill
Flycatcher: Great Crested
Thrush: Wood
Sandpiper: Purple
Plover: Piping
Voice: Eastern Meadowlark
either there’s a new hospital called the Jonns Hofxins Burn Unit that treats strep throat or I just received my first ai-generated doctor’s note
reminiscing about the only reason I got an A in gen chem: an extra credit assignment where I wrote and performed a song about blackbody radiation to the tune of that’s amore
Wikipedia is down and the only Wikipedia pages that are loading for me are Major-General Isaac Brock (not the musician) and Modest Mouse
the answer is no. there’s a saltmarsh just before the tunnel to Penn station that I always have high hopes for but my train was delayed and by the time we got there it was dark :/
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Color charts of undifferentiated plumage of different warbler species from Charles Keeler's Evolution of the colors of North American land birds (1893)
















