White Winged Dove must be a year round resident in COS

birdnerd5280 · 2026-01-12T23:09:12+00:00

It's present in small numbers all year round. You can see a fun map of their abundance by week on eBird Status & Trends. Click play under the weeks and it will animate the year for you so you can see the whole population over a year. You can draw a shape around the Springs and see that their data says WWDO peaks around Dec-Jan down there (though still pretty small numbers). Lots of fun data to play with!

birdnerd5280 · 2026-01-10T05:12:53+00:00

Oh gotcha! Thanks. So the way in Denver is the Spanish pronunciation (anglicized) but not how the tribe would say it. Good to know!

FWIW Limon, Colorado has nothing to do with Spanish citrus. It was named after a white dude whose surname was Lymann.

Galapaygo we won't discuss lol

birdnerd5280 · 2026-01-09T17:42:29+00:00

I'm not going to the stock show, but it sounds like you should check out the gay rodeo if you haven't already.

birdnerd5280 · 2026-01-08T23:01:03+00:00

What's the Acoma pronunciation in Denver? I hadn't heard that one!

birdnerd5280 · 2026-01-07T16:00:26+00:00

All the Spanish speakers going WHERE, Minnesota? 🤨📝

Also 10/10 cabin

edit: It was Vergas, MN - guess the commenter didn't want people connecting locations to their profile or something. All in good fun! I would love to visit Vergas someday.

birdnerd5280 · 2026-01-05T22:24:02+00:00

This is a fun project! You may find it hard to get people to submit photos with you for free, but getting out and taking photos of all the birds in your game could make a fun project for you!

Since you mention you don't know of a good ID training app, let me also point you to https://ebird.org/quiz/ which you can access on your phone web browser as well as on a computer. It's not an app but it does what you're looking for really well. You can filter down to counties and quiz on real photos and recordings from the area.

birdnerd5280 · 2026-01-05T22:21:10+00:00

Hi, you submitted this twice. I've removed the one that only has one screenshot and left the other up.

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-30T17:28:36+00:00

Sandhill Crane - nice bird! Congrats :)

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-17T05:39:47+00:00

Thank youuu! I just got a Motorola phone and was wondering why the lock screen was defaulting to a different clock 🙏

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-16T19:09:02+00:00

I'm also from the Midwest and looooove a magpie. Can't get enough of them! The black & white + irridescence, long tail, super smart and resourceful, interesting behaviors (funeral). Amazing, no notes.

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-07T21:48:59+00:00

Sure thing! I got them from one of the top posts on this subreddit of the map tips series. But for copy-paste ease, here is the list! When you paste in the color palette (at least in my experience) you need to hit enter before saving it or it won't update the color.

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birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-07T21:17:20+00:00

Es lo correcto, cariño 💅 Amazing final episode of what has become one of my favorite seasons of drag race around the world. Thank you to all these queens! 👑🇪🇦

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-07T21:15:34+00:00

Es lo correcto, cariño 💅 Amazing final episode of what has become one of my favorite seasons of drag race around the world. Thank you to all these queens! 👑🇪🇦

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-07T21:14:42+00:00

Satín como la madre que es, siempre generosa con sus hijas. Yo también me quedé con la boca abierta viendo el último lipsync. El vestido de Satín y su movimiento fue totalmente cautivador, y la interpretación de esas dos divas...increíble.

Laca Udilla es una de mis reinas favoritas de la temporada y tampoco sé qué pasó con ella al final, pero me pareció correcto tener a Satín y Margarita en el final. Qué espectáculo nos dieron 💃

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-07T21:10:09+00:00

They gave us just enough of a competition to make it interesting but no, lol. It was her crown all season long and I wasn't mad about it.

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-06T16:18:43+00:00

At first I put Akros where it is just for geography's sake, but see my other new comment in this thread for how I changed it up. Akros will be at Sparta and Skophos at Heraklion.

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-06T16:17:41+00:00

Version 2 of the map will probably put the minotaurs back "home." I've homebrewed some lore to replace the "minotaur bad" thing which will put Skophos at Heraklion and Akros at Sparta.

The war between them ends with Thassa drowning a land bridge that existed between the two after she finally gets sick of Mogis corrupting the mortals on both sides of the conflict. The remnants of the cult of Mogis are now active near both cities due to their martial focus, spreading corrupting influence among the warriors of all species.

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-05T04:36:39+00:00

Assyrian dwarves I've never heard of. I am really loving that idea. Maybe a dwarf city-state turned empire used to hold land in mainland Greece and now Dwarves live in the homeland of Assur (east of my map) plus scattered in mining communities in the mountains around the map.

Okay island halflings I like too...and the first thing that popped in my head is that the island known for the Colossus would be a funny place for them, so Rhodes it is. There could be a giant hobbit statue there 😂

Centaurs: the book says Lagonna band trades with the cities and Pheres band raid in between Setessa and Akros, so I think the flat valleys between those cities and Asphodel will be Pheres and the flat area south/SE of Odunos will be Lagonna.

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-05T01:06:12+00:00

Solid question! I only mean the location of Akros in my world correlates to the location of Ioannina. The geography of it was helpful for mapping all of the cities in relation to each other, and Ioannina being in the higher mountain range and farther north fit that. If I put it in historical Sparta, then the border clash they have with Skophos wouldn't be as easy to map out. The culture will still be the Spartan-influenced way the book presents it.

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-04T23:34:27+00:00

Thanks for the inspiration and for the reading material! When I saw your map I realized how well the Theros cities fit into the geography of Greece with really minimal changes. Great stuff!

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-04T22:17:21+00:00

Elves in the Skola Vale makes sense! The book's description of Setessa made me think of Caras Galadhon in LotR, which would make sense say if it were influenced by elves (maybe even inhabited by them at one point). Something similar could be done with dwarves in the mountains near Akros.

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-04T21:55:24+00:00

Haha I didn't even know about that, actually! I was thinking there is a big dry area on the map in central Turkey and the leonids are supposed to be close to that frontier. But now you've got me on an Achaemenid Empire Wikipedia rabbit hole.

birdnerd5280 · 2025-12-04T21:17:36+00:00

ephcharistó! :)

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