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Fish tank vids are on tiktok if anyone likes fish shrimp snails and the smell of pond water (i'm pigeontanks)

Today I saw a pic of a baby cowbird next 2 its nest "parent" and it was so much bigger!!!!! Which is the sort of thing that gets normal people upset about the injustice of nest parasitism but makes *me* worry if baby cowbirds get bird dysmorphia

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This (from Cornell Labs via Merlin) is the pic I was looking at. It's just a little baby but it's so much bigger than its "parent"!!!! Do baby cowbirds feel isolated? Do they understand they're a different bird, or are they just a really bad sparrow?

raiasintended

hey, good news! ecologists have been studying this very thing! it seems young cowbirds have some kind of innate sense that leads them to sneak out of their foster nest at night to hang out in grasslands where they—more often than not—meet other cowbirds and learn more about what they really are.

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Thanks I am going to cry so hard I throw up ;-;

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i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

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I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.

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1992 Los Angeles riots. My family was living in LA, we were actually just preparing to move so it's this weird mess of boxes and burning and my parents being outraged (not surprised) at the outcome of the trial. I feel like that being the first news story I can remember is very on brand since it was my parents who taught me how to protest.

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Iran hostage crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

Mostly because it was part of the news, every night, for 14 months (444 days). And I remember when it ended, and they got to go home.

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I remember Diana & Charles getting married, bc I remember how big the train on her wedding dress was. I would have been... 3 or 4.

#9/11 i remember asking my parents why people were jumping

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i Really like the new deltarune enemy

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Cactus Wren Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus

2/16/2024 Saguaro National Park, Arizona

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bearded vultures always look very dragon like to me

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Cormorant Crowd

Brandt's Cormorant, Heermann's Gull - Point La Jolla, CA

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Little Swimmer

Mallard - Magnuson Park, WA

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While its eyes are not as big as its mummy's, this baby tawny frogmouth is still using its beady peepers to see the best it can

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Snow Bunting

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Tried to recreate a painting I saw on vacation

5" x 7", acrylic on canvas

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MAGICAL WOOD DUCKS. i COULD CRY.

Wood ducks are usually very shy, I got lucky and was able to hide in a bush to get these photos of them swimming by in the early morning light. I love the greens, the pollen on the water, the backlight. I'm so excited by this.

Seriously made my month.