On a quick non birding note, if you or someone you know is considering getting a kid a rabbit for Easter, please, don’t. They are a lot of work and are often surrendered to shelters. Also, MSNBC noticed Disapproving Rabbits.
There’s a photo of an octopus eating a gull (Thayer’s?). The problem is that with one photo, some are calling fake. However, there is a series of photos and for whatever reason the photog isn’t sharing on the Internet. But when you see the full series, it doesn’t look fake.
Oprah.com selected Julie Zickefoose’s The Bluebird Effect as Oprah’s Book of the Week. Awesome! You can order it here.
There’s a turkey vulture cam! OMG! It’s new and vultures have been seen there grunting (a mating thing) but you may have to check back a few times as it gets going.
10000 Birds has an interesting bird. Is it a junco? Is it a hybrid? Who knows?
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I’m pretty sure the “Munich” mentioned on the Rogue beer refers to the actual malt they used. When I used to brew that was a pretty typical malt when making various ales. Awesome podcast as usual, you two! Cheers.
I would tend to agree with White Throated Sparrow crossed with Junco. The McGill Bird Observatory has an oddities page that includes (fairly far down) a few photographs of another apparent White Throated Sparrow X Junco that has very similar face markings to the bird on 10000 birds: http://www.migrationresearch.org/mbo/oddities.html
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