Conceptualizing a plumage aberration such as leucism, where pigments are prevented from reaching some (or all) feathers (in the case of birds) may be...
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Some updates from the comments sections! On the Limpkin, the ever-sagicious Rick Wright points out that the ‘gait’ explanation may well be a folk...
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A friend was in Florida, and as people in Florida are wont to do, he taunted me with pictures of some good birds that...
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Phil McGrew is a nuclear engineer turned currency trader. He moved from Florida to California 3 years ago and in the process, gave up...
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Limpkins are Apple Snail specialists. That is, they eat snails of the genus Pomacea to the exclusion of all else, provided the snails are...
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I ate escargot for the first time a few months ago. That I didn’t enjoy it probably had to do with the fact that...
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