If you like science and comic strips you definitely want to read xkcd. The strip up today is apropos for 10,000 Birds, though some might take exception to the appellation applied to ornithologists. If you are sensitive to mildly bad language don’t click the link.
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their indoor cat, B.B. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
as a herper/birder I’m going through conflicting emotions!
I always read xkcd. Its very funny
Well, I certainly shall take this up to the large office n my department that hosts numerous herpetologists and ornithologists. Should make for an interesting morning coffee.
Another case of how the paraphyletic inferiority complex manifests in angry outbursts against the phylogenetically correct crowd. Herpers and birders unite! Show some love to the root node.