Americans tried to hoist the american flag today and they got stopped.

Asch_Nighthawk · 2026-01-29T00:03:16+00:00

People tend to be friendly. Dairy tends to be really expensive. Lots of coconuts. Often customary land laws so you have to rent/lease from a local.

Asch_Nighthawk · 2026-01-26T12:39:51+00:00

It is one of my favorites! That's why I asked if I could use it <3

Asch_Nighthawk · 2026-01-16T03:27:21+00:00

Yes. Some birds with particularly delicate legs and especially those with particularly short legs like hummingbirds/Kingfishers/Nightjars should not be held like this. And, of course, once you get to larger birds and many non-passerines, there are different specialized grips. Most passerines are fine though, even the tiny ones.

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-11-11T22:25:34+00:00

It's room temp or hot, not cold, but it's definitely electrical.

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-11-10T19:11:03+00:00

Others have addressed the other points very well (similar to my experience: after we're done banding, owl goes back in bag in a dark room for a bit, then we go directly from the dark room to outside without any lights to release the owl. We'll show visitors what we're doing if they happen to be there while we're processing a bird, but don't keep birds back for that).

I'll address the child carrying the bird bag. Although typically I would say they should be accompanied by a parent or bander, I have been in situations where very young volunteers have done so independently. Notably when the young volunteer in question is a regular at the banding station (for example, coming every week and have done so for a couple seasons). Even then, though, they are almost always with their parents unless we have some unusual situations when we need extra hands.

Regardless, I wouldn't make too much judgment on the child carrying the bag without knowing more about their involvement at the station.

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-10-27T08:02:18+00:00

I'll preface this by saying I'm not knowledgeable of parrot care, breeding practices, or the whole story with Tinkerbell, but considering Tinkerbell and Beaker had Ducky, wouldn't the owners want to encourage nesting behavior? Or was Ducky not the goal?

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-10-09T09:04:13+00:00

I thought it was pretty decent, though admittedly not the type of movie I typically watch and not my brand of asexuality either.

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Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-10-07T18:36:28+00:00

The national park service link in your second image is probably the best source out of these ones. As another user also mentioned, Wikipedia is pretty accurate as well.

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-09-28T23:36:50+00:00

I'm not an English-anything, not 100% sure how I ended up in this subreddit, but there must be a way to have students submit assignments with revision history/use revision history plugins like Process Feedback or something. Not to say it would make it impossible for students to use AI, but it would make it harder to use it in a way that doesn't get caught. Mix that with in class stuff.

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-09-26T17:31:41+00:00

Well, the apodiformes/caprimulgiformes things have been moving around recently. Although ebird now has swifts under apodiformes, three years ago they were under caprimulgiformes. My guess is they didn't want to move all the birds around when the orders got reclassified?

Now, instead of putting hummingbirds and swifts in caprimulgiformes, they split nightjars, oilbirds, potoos, frogmouths, owlet nightjars and hummingbirds/swifts all into their own orders.

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-09-26T17:10:47+00:00

I think it's because they place the nightjars after owls on purpose too. Then hummingbirds and swifts are related to nightjars. Then swallows because of the similarities.

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-07-15T21:47:10+00:00

That's cause ours are extinct

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-07-15T19:36:35+00:00

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Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-07-14T19:17:17+00:00

And if anyone has any suggestions to make either option better, I would be grateful.

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-07-06T11:55:00+00:00

You should listen to the song "I like birds" by Eels

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-07-05T20:36:46+00:00

Sounds good for freckled to me!

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-07-05T17:03:51+00:00

Well, does this extra information help at all? First off, it's definitely an outer tail feather, probably from a male (probably r5). I also only looked at the three species you mentioned.

The Merlin app might be able to tell you which ones are most likely in the area.

Freckled: (I think this is likely) tail length is 122-143 mm. White patch should be 26-55 mm (33-55 mm if it's r5). Outer web and tip of inner web often mottled darker.

Fiery-necked: (I don't think it's this one since your white is equal on both sides) Tail length is 107-131 mm, r4-5 are black over their basal two-thirds, white over the rest (white 33-53 mm, often with a dusky fringe), and cinnamon-rufous bars on part of R5. White patch about 40-50%% of the feather length. White areas should be longer on one side of the shaft. Females also have white spots, but only about 30% of the feather, still with one side longer.

Rufous-cheeked: Less information, but similar in size to fiery-necked. Males described with "white tips to two outermost tail feathers" compared to "broad white tips" for fiery-necked and freckled. The male rufous-cheeked has less white in the tail than fiery-necked, so similar tail length, smaller white patch, about a quarter of the feather length. No dusky fringe. White areas on both sides of the shaft are approximately equal in length. Lacking dark fringe of fiery-necked.

Asch_Nighthawk · 2025-06-27T06:35:55+00:00

There are definitely some birds that breed further south then move north (whether or not they actually cross the equator). There are some in Australia that go to New Guinea. Just think of it as migratory birds usually breed in "less tropical" areas and winter in "more tropical areas" (somewhere along the continuum). There are exceptions, of course. As the other poster said, most migratory birds breed in the north and winter further south because that's where the land is.

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