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Who is out here voting for cowbirds!!!! What is in your HEARTS

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If you call gulls “seagulls” it will make some serious birders snicker at you and say “seagulls isn’t a thing” which is exactly why I still say seagulls.

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To all the birds I had to vote against: I'm sorry, I still love you.

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Calling my shot now. Burrowing owl to take home the crown this year.

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There's no matchup for the American Woodcock, because it's the BEST BURD.

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Okay, so white pelican, bunting, shrike (do not fuck with shrikes!), grackle (big grack attack!), cowbirds, new world warblers, and wild turkey are all pretty easy picks. Maybe a little North American bias showing, but I am a North American birder.

Going with the petrel because petrels are very cool in general and the bustard because I like saying "bustard."

Scott's oriole on a coin flip.

Kingfisher for the female bird representation.

Burrowing owls because of the Dead Milkmen.

Closed my eyes and clicked on the gulls vs. brown pelicans poll because it was the only way to get it done.

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I like shrikes, because every date with them must be something shoved on a branch. Cricket on a stick, Caterpillar on a stick, rodent on a stick....

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/sage-grouse-endangered-alberta-saskatchewan-1.7136758 You should have matched up these guys, people think they're going extinct in Canada :(

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RAGE GROUSE!

That's sad news about their status in Canada. Conservation efforts in the US had been successful enough to get them off the endangered species list, but that progress may be undone: https://www.audubon.org/news/frustration-abounds-five-years-after-historic-sage-grouse-agreement

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thanks birds are so fascinating to id and just watch.

take a walk in the woods at night and listen to an owl or two sing you a lullaby.

watch a wood cock mating ritual.

or an ospray poop on your car as it soars overhead. happens to me a lot o cape cod. but a fascinating bird to watrch hovereing abd diving than in flight with a wiggling herrng in its talons.

we need more happy thoughts

so thanks you all at discourseblog

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One of the greatest texts I ever got from my mom was "Driving 45 miles an hour with an Osprey flying along with us holding a fish and it dripped blood on our windshield."

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I don't see a poll for Seagull vs. California Brown Pelican presumably because they are both perfect.

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the poll is there now!!!!!!!!

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IT'S VOTIN TIME

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Maybe the hardest section of the bracket. Gulls and brown pelicans are indeed both perfect!

And then you've got America's second-best magpie up against burrowing owls. Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! How do you decide?

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This was hard as shi—frozen petrel vomit.

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Let’s go grackles! ¡Los diablos del aire!

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Don't come on his Lek, he'll rage all over the sage.

Yeah, we stole some from Montana last year too, hoping they would breed and populate it with small little Sage Grouses.

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Nice selection of sick fucks, but where are the stinky boys?

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