Hey all! I don't typically post my photos here but heck, I should. This is just a heads up that you won't see much from me for the next couple weeks as I go on my yearly fieldwork trip to Yosemite to train our summer bird banding crew in how to run their stations. These MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) stations are part of a long-term (30+ years!) monitoring project that has resulted in some amazing science, from teaching us about how climate change affects birds at different altitudes to setting new longevity records (we have a 20-year old woodpecker!).
All of this is done through The Institute for Bird Populations. Go check out the website and learn more about what we do for birds around the world!
Watching A Court of Fey and Flowers, I am seriously impressed by the fact that there are two bird-themed PCs talking about various types of birds constantly, and Brennan not only isn't playing one of them, but has stayed completely silent on the topic of birds throughout.
Wilson is a raven, because corvids are known to be smart and also for the beard, Willow is a whistling kite, part of a group of birds called ‘firehawks’ who intentionally spread fires to flush out prey
I just need you guys to know that in Brazil they translated couple of turkeys as literally a romantic couple of turkeys. Those turkeys are canonically gay in Brazil.
From: Wilson, Alexander, and George Ord. American Ornithology : Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States ; Illustrated with Plates, Engraved and Colored from Original Drawings Taken from Nature. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1808. Print.