At least 2 whinchat and 4 stonechat today on Walthamstow Marsh. I didn't get any photos so I asked chatgpt to help. Pretty good male stonechat, but its attempt at a whinchat looks like a cross between a female stonechat and a meadow pipit. #LondonBirds#BirdsArentReal.
Maybe you've heard of the #BirdsArentReal movement, but here's an equally wild idea that is nevertheless true: TREES DON'T EXIST (phylogenetically). By which I mean "trees" aren't a distinctive group or 'clade', they're a shape that plants grow into, like how animals tend to evolve into crabs.
"Others, meanwhile, became lost more recently, like the Papuan whipbird, which was last documented 13 years ago." #birdsarentreal 3/3
The fact that r/birdsarentreal is like 1/3 ornithologists really tells you all you need to know. This does, of course, also mean that dinosaurs were all robots as well, obvs.
#BirdsArentReal#ISidedWithTheDronesLongAgo
