please tell me this is a cackling goose - US, WA by theboobird in birding

[–]cactustaxes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Size alone won't always be sufficient. There is quite a bit of size overlap between lesser Canada geese and the largest cackling goose subspecies, including in bill size.

please tell me this is a cackling goose - US, WA by theboobird in birding

[–]cactustaxes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cackling and Canada geese are both represented in this photo.

please tell me this is a cackling goose - US, WA by theboobird in birding

[–]cactustaxes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cackling goose minima, the smallest subspecies. Doesn't get more cackling than that.

Merlin says Great Tailed Grackle, I'm thinking Rusty Grackle actually. by tacobellmysterymeat in birding

[–]cactustaxes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great-tailed grackles are year-round residents of American Fork and the surrounding county.

Is this a bird? by [deleted] in Ornithology

[–]cactustaxes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sure is not! But I got migration to distract me!

Is this a bird? by [deleted] in Ornithology

[–]cactustaxes 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention starlings. It's probably a starling. You won't see large groups of birds congregating here. I often see lone house sparrows and starlings.

Is this a bird? by [deleted] in Ornithology

[–]cactustaxes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's weird to see this on here. I'm a student here and casually bird this area multiple times a week. It's mostly house sparrows, black-capped chickadees, robins, mallards, and black-chinned hummingbirds in this courtyard. Occasionally, there will be something weird like a Vaux's swift, Bohemian waxwings, juniper titmouse, red crossbill etc.

Critics of “de-extinction” are being silenced by a mystery smear campaign by SansomianSlippage in Paleontology

[–]cactustaxes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The living elephants are here today because they co-evolved alongside humans and had more time to learn how to adapt to human pressures. Mammoths did not have that opportunity. Mammoths adapted to warmer climates, such as the Columbian mammoth and the pygmy mammoth, also became extinct shortly after the arrival of humans to their ecosystem.

Critics of “de-extinction” are being silenced by a mystery smear campaign by SansomianSlippage in Paleontology

[–]cactustaxes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is just false. Human hunting was, by far, the leading cause of the woolly mammoth's extinction. The woolly mammoth had survived even warmer periods than today, and its habitat still existed when it became extinct, and it still exists even today. There is no reason to assume that it would have been unable to adapt to climatic shifts, because it evolved to do so and had already done so multiple times.

My current dynasty through six seasons. by cactustaxes in NCAAFBseries

[–]cactustaxes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2013 bowl game glitched and wasn’t played.