Don't worry about being a regional birder. I don't know shit about birds outside of northern California and southern Oregon (and the pacific northwest, when it snows enough there for their owls to migrate south)
It has been moved to the forest of my browser tabs to read, ahead of the Wikipedia entry for Lázaro Cárdenas.
Thank you. I will read this while drinking my coffee tomorrow morning.
Is there a link to your work? I've just followed them as a photographer/videographer, and I'd love to see academia's take on these guys.
I know, right? It's like historical materialism, but on a longer timeline.
They are more closely related to the flamingo than they are the coot. After genetic evidence became a thing, a prominent taxonomist went to his grave cursing the new revelation because the morphology is so different. Cheers for convergent evolution.
Correct.
Nice capture of these odd bird-snakes. If you ever want a laugh, google image search one of them standing on land.
A great alarm clock. My favorite wakeup alarm was a flock of magpies picking the dead dragonflies off the roof of my car after driving past a large marsh to get to Malheur.