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    You might be a birder if.....

    in General Birding Topics

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    4 hours ago, Aaron said:

    Do people here actually say “American” before robin and crow?

    Honestly, I use a shortened version 90% of the time…. At least for the common type of birds with the same last name. A boreal chickadee is never just a chickadee, but a black-capped chickadee sure is. 
     

    I use shortened names most of the time in conversation, especially when there's no chance of confusion. Cardinal doesn't need North in front of it for ID purposes. Chickadees are limited to Black-capped species here so there's no chance of confusion there. Crows and Robin's are just that, Crows and Robins without the American in front. The list goes on to include Juncos, Cowbirds, Starlings, Bluebirds, etc, etc, if there's no chance of confusion I keep the names as simple as possible.

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    Woodhouse's Scrub-jay? Central Texas 78070

    in Help Me Identify a North American Bird

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    31 minutes ago, TexasCobra said:

    Interesting.  You use the word "univer-sity" and the word "col-lege" when whatbird and only whatbird prohibits me from posting a message using those words.    

    As @Kevin pointed out, the heaviest spammers use univer-sity and col-lege names in their spam so the programmers may have added a filter that is triggered when you use those words in certain combinations. Just speculating of course.

    Testing...

    Texas Univer-sity

    Univer-sity of Texas

    Texas Col-lege

    Col-lege of Texas

     

    Testing confirms that it's not just on @TexasCobra's end. I get flagged for those words and have added a - to all highlighted words so I can post.

    Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.

     

     

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    Question about nictitating membranes

    in Help Me Identify a North American Bird

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    10 hours ago, smittyone@cox.net said:

    Anyone else want to field this one?  

     

    14 hours ago, gpoole said:

    The nictitating eyelid in the first photo doesn't look fully closed, perhaps allowing in a little more reflective light resulting in a clearer eye image. Just a guess.

    I agree with @gpoole. If the nictating membrane is being backlit by the light that is hitting the eye, that would explain the variance in transparency. The only other plausible idea I can come up with is the bird having the ability to control the thickness of the membrane, perhaps stretching it into thicker/thinner segments at different stages as it closes. That's my creative mind at work trying to stretch things to fit the 'plausible' category though.  I like the plausibility of the backlit idea better.

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    Birdie

    in General Birding Topics

    Posted · Edited by lonestranger

    I have a silly question about your game, @Jagularr. When we share our results, there is a bird icon before the game number. Sometimes it's a duck, eagle, owl, swan, etc, etc. Is there a method or pattern used to determine which bird is assigned to the game results or is it strictly a random thing?  It doesn't look like it's score related to individual games, which makes me think it's random, or do our previous scores influence which bird we get? Any significance at all with the assigned bird icon or is it just a random (for lack of a better word) decoration?

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    Birdie

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    5 minutes ago, lonestranger said:

    I just noticed that we can now play/replay older games. 

    "New! Play all the previous birdie games by clicking the button in the top left!"

    Try game #4 if you want a good chance of acing one. 

    I didn't start until game 9 when the game was first posted so the first few games are new to me, and should be new to most everyone else too.

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