taenia.bsky.social
Ontogeny recapitulates your mom. Epeeist 🤺 & Curler 🥌. They/them.
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*I* never had toys that cool
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It's nice when people think about you 😂
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(100% correct impulse on his part)
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Yessssssss
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Aaah what a good weird giant rail-thing. I hope it ate so many apple snails.
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They really are tho
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The glaucous-winged gull needs to be stopped.
("Cook Inlet Gull" is its hybrid with the American Herring Gull & "Olympic Gull" is its hybrid with the Western Gull.)
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Well actually I kinda do: I started caring about gulls out of sheer perversity when I heard several birders tell me not to bother with them as a novice.
Then I met a Pacific Gull and my heart was given wholly and freely to the sandwich-devouring larids.
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I'd love to see what this bird looks like right now - I wonder if I'd ping it as a hybrid or if I'd call it a Western.
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My practice when identifying adult gulls is to identify anything with a pale mantle and wingtips of the same color or a hair darker as GWGU but that's probably not strictly right, as most of the Glaucous-winged gulls in the Puget Sound region probably have some amount of hybridization with Westerns.
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Interestingly, Merlin pings it as a Herring Gull. (It's not)
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Really dark wingtips (that's the Western Gull), and a really muddy winter head with a dark mark on the bill (coming from the Glaucous-winged side). Mantle is dark for a GWGU, but pale for a WEGU. The orbital ring is also mixed in color - dull pink on top and pale yellow at the bottom.
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you're welcome; stupid dove nests are my favorite thing
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I think waxwings might be the world's most photogenic bird (although see @mikemelton.bsky.social's Agami Heron posts for a strong counterargument)
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I feel like that's one of those field marks that's obvious when you see the two side by side but is always super hard for me to judge on an individual bird
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dang it swallows
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sooo I think they're actually bank swallows because it turns out I have a photo of the front bird with a really clear chest band
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NEVER MIND MYSTERY SOLVED
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If you transition starting at 9yo, that means you didn't go through male puberty at all. You've literally never been "a man." It's frustrating, then, to say "hey maybe have a third category" for that kind of thing. It highlights just how absurd the entire thing is!
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I tried hormonal transition. I experienced permanent unwanted physical changes to my body. I'm cool with it and a better person for the experience.
Trans rights, y'all.
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I don't like to use the term detransition because it's been weaponized, and because it's not necessarily accurate - I'm still non-binary - but I think it's important for people with my experience to push back against the narrative of the harms of medical transition.
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This joke feels like a bit of a stretch.
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I think the official collective noun is a "seige of herons," but tbh I think it should be a "knife crime of herons."
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(Snails are not arthropods. They are not even close to being arthropods. I know this. I have no defense.)
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It comes for us all ðŸ˜
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Once I get all 11,000 species it's all over for you bitches