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a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones

@goddamnshinyrock / goddamnshinyrock.tumblr.com

shiny ✨🏔 // on tumblr since 2011 // queer as in fuck you // art history, rock climbing, ecology & birding, polar exploration, folk music, whaling & age of sail, and miscellaneous fandom nonsense
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What's the Bird?

Location: Maine

Date: Summer

We ask that discussion under questions be limited to how you came to your conclusion, not what your conclusion was.

Happy Birding!

Keep the game alive! Submit a bird HERE

Bird-507 graciously submitted by @aeyriabird

#location and color of facial skin AND plumage all point to the obvious answer#and yet 44.6% of people voted for something that neither looks like this bird nor ranges even near Maine#wtf??#birding#birbs#I feel crazy looking at the tally rn
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For those of you that may have just finished watching Cory Booker’s record-breaking senate speech and are inspired to “get in good trouble”, you have a great opportunity for it this Saturday!

On April 5th, numerous advocacy groups are banding together into one nation-wide rally that will be held in major cities all over the country - you can easily find a participating location here!

www.handsoff2025.com

Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to
Hands Off!

I’ll be volunteering as a safety captain at my own local rally, and I encourage all of you to go out there too and get in some good trouble as well!

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for the record when I say a lot of major cities I mean a LOT of major cities :P

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I will be hitting up one of our Twin Cities rallies tomorrow representing the Great Lakes. Let's get out there and raise hell!

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1272 protests listed for today. 686 were counted in the women's march in 2017, which was 1% of the population. 🎉

#today!#us politics#I can’t go bc we have a meeting w our landlord right in the middle of it but if you can go you should
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I love the feeling of seeing someone else having a fruitless internet argument with a person being confidently wrong, but I can only see one half of it because I already have the person being obnoxious blocked.

Thank you past me, you were SO right about that guy.

#currently: someone on r/whatsthisbird is insisting a juvie bald eagle is a golden eagle and not listening to reasonable users#but I can only infer that from the replies given to them because I can’t see their comments. peace.
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What's the Bird?

Location: West Texas

Date: Summer

We ask that discussion under questions be limited to how you came to your conclusion, not what your conclusion was.

Happy Birding!

Keep the game alive! Submit a bird HERE

Bird-499 graciously submitted by @nohriantomatoes

#lol @ these options#tip for bird ID: look at the beak first silhouette second and plumage a distant third#beak + shape (+ geographic area) will get you to family or even to genus 9 times out of 10#'it was orange' will.... not do that#birbs#birding
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the home-buying process is so stressful, I’m not sure if it’s better or worse that our local market is so “hot” that it’s standard to have offers due within 4-6 days of listing. (meaning you have to learn the place exists, make time to go see it, and then decide if you want to offer to pay someone an alarming amount of money for it all in less than a week.)

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it's happening,,,,

#offer accepted??? inspection tomorrow??? ahhhhh#inane personal post#HOW do I focus on work today#I'm bouncing between 'oh my god' and 'crap we're going to need a new couch' and 'paint colors???'
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the home-buying process is so stressful, I’m not sure if it’s better or worse that our local market is so “hot” that it’s standard to have offers due within 4-6 days of listing. (meaning you have to learn the place exists, make time to go see it, and then decide if you want to offer to pay someone an alarming amount of money for it all in less than a week.)

#it’s such a huge decision that you HAVE to make in like a day realistically#open house on a saturday decide on a sunday offer dealine on monday#augh#inane personal post#this post is yet another sign of tumblr’s aging userbase lol
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Quiz: Can You Pick The Closest Relatives On The Tree Of Avian Evolution?

Not everything is quite as it seems when it comes to evolution. Try this quiz and see if you can pick out who is related to whom in the bird world.

Evolution works in somewhat mysterious ways. Two birds at the same backyard feeder that look alike could be separated by millions of years of evolutionary history. Meanwhile, two birds that are each other’s closest evolutionary cousins could live on opposite sides of the world.
That mixing and matching of birds with different speciation histories is borne of two seemingly opposing forces of evolution. On the one hand, divergent evolution is pushing closely related species away from each other; natural selection (the race to enhance survival, such as being better at exploiting food resources or evading predators) pushes birds to gain an advantage by looking different or moving someplace different…

Take the quiz here:

Quiz: Can You Pick the Closest Relatives on the Tree of Avian Evolution?
Not everything is quite as it seems when it comes to evolution. Try this quiz and see if you can pick out who is related to whom in the bird
All About Birds
#Got all the north american ones at least#birding#birbs
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