The State Birds Are Garbage (SLYT)
March 2, 2021 5:08 PM Subscribe
Not the fauna themselves, but rather their selection. Not only is the content compelling, the author uses a totally novel (to me) low-tech fake-high-tech "this is a unix system" style presentation medium. To me it's as interesting as the content! I had to keep asking myself: why is this good? It's like a layer cake of nostalgia and... is that irony? I can't tell! Keep it comin'...
I don't actually know what "SLYT" stands for, but in my head it is "slithery youtube!"
I don't actually know what "SLYT" stands for, but in my head it is "slithery youtube!"
This looks like the videos made by MeFi-fave Jon Bois, you might want to give some of his stuff a look if you like the aesthetic.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 5:20 PM on March 2, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 5:20 PM on March 2, 2021 [2 favorites]
Good video. Fascinating way to say 'grouse'.
posted by sagc at 5:47 PM on March 2, 2021 [10 favorites]
posted by sagc at 5:47 PM on March 2, 2021 [10 favorites]
I was gonna say, very Jon Bois.
There's a mockingbird that hangs out in my yard and while I can take or leave most "official" Texas stuff, I like them. I don't care if other states do also. They're a cool bird.
Also: fuck grackles
No teacher is ever going to want to teach a lesson that includes the word "titmouse" that's just a nonstarter.
posted by emjaybee at 5:47 PM on March 2, 2021 [2 favorites]
There's a mockingbird that hangs out in my yard and while I can take or leave most "official" Texas stuff, I like them. I don't care if other states do also. They're a cool bird.
Also: fuck grackles
No teacher is ever going to want to teach a lesson that includes the word "titmouse" that's just a nonstarter.
posted by emjaybee at 5:47 PM on March 2, 2021 [2 favorites]
"To me, mockingbirds don't really scream Texas, unless I scream Texas at them first."
brilliant, brilliant line, very good joke
posted by taquito sunrise at 5:56 PM on March 2, 2021 [24 favorites]
brilliant, brilliant line, very good joke
posted by taquito sunrise at 5:56 PM on March 2, 2021 [24 favorites]
"York 2"
posted by wordless reply at 6:15 PM on March 2, 2021 [5 favorites]
posted by wordless reply at 6:15 PM on March 2, 2021 [5 favorites]
I like how he very nearly broke into helpless giggles during the whole unicorn/mothman interlude.
I argue the alternative set of rules to his, though: the state bird for each state should be the most unexpected bird seen in the wild in your particular state. Here in Colorado, which is even more landlocked than utah if that’s even possible, at a manmade lake at a nearly 9000-foot elevation, we have California seagulls. They’re so surprising! You’ll see elk and bighorn sheep, and then boom, seagulls circling the boat launch, a frenzy of caws and squawking. It’s deliciously unsettling to not quite be entirely sure where you are.
Our actual state bird is the lark bunting, which are lovely, but they’re endangered and I’ve never seen one.
posted by mochapickle at 6:17 PM on March 2, 2021 [1 favorite]
I argue the alternative set of rules to his, though: the state bird for each state should be the most unexpected bird seen in the wild in your particular state. Here in Colorado, which is even more landlocked than utah if that’s even possible, at a manmade lake at a nearly 9000-foot elevation, we have California seagulls. They’re so surprising! You’ll see elk and bighorn sheep, and then boom, seagulls circling the boat launch, a frenzy of caws and squawking. It’s deliciously unsettling to not quite be entirely sure where you are.
Our actual state bird is the lark bunting, which are lovely, but they’re endangered and I’ve never seen one.
posted by mochapickle at 6:17 PM on March 2, 2021 [1 favorite]
@sagc to be fair, the first time he says "grouse" it's about a Canadian provincial bird, so I assumed he just kept the gag going.
Also: Dakota+ and Dakota-; Upper and Lower Carolinas, and so many other great little easter eggs in there.
posted by jburka at 6:36 PM on March 2, 2021 [4 favorites]
Also: Dakota+ and Dakota-; Upper and Lower Carolinas, and so many other great little easter eggs in there.
posted by jburka at 6:36 PM on March 2, 2021 [4 favorites]
The subtle cover of "I Ran" during the Utah seagull sorry was fantastic.
posted by phooky at 6:51 PM on March 2, 2021 [5 favorites]
posted by phooky at 6:51 PM on March 2, 2021 [5 favorites]
> Fascinating way to say 'grouse'.Yeeeaaahhh.. That's possible but then he goes on for a bit about the "western tanger" (it's actually tanager: /ˈtænədʒər/).
to be fair, the first time he says "grouse" it's about a Canadian provincial bird, so I assumed he just kept the gag going.
posted by Nerd of the North at 6:52 PM on March 2, 2021 [3 favorites]
If New Mexico gets to be called out positively for having the roadrunner, which is all over the place in Arizona, then what in the hell is wrong with the cactus wren?
posted by darksasami at 6:56 PM on March 2, 2021 [3 favorites]
posted by darksasami at 6:56 PM on March 2, 2021 [3 favorites]
This was so unexpected and great.
posted by curious nu at 7:05 PM on March 2, 2021 [3 favorites]
posted by curious nu at 7:05 PM on March 2, 2021 [3 favorites]
Theo Jr. (11 yrs old) loves birds, and he'd be predisposed to this video, owing to his enjoyment of the book United Tweets of America. Watching the first 3 minutes of this (or at least until the Mormon vo-coder crickets and seagulls were calling dibs) I am convinced the bird focus & outlandish goofiness of this video would make for elite Friday-nite family dinner viewing. But I want to watch it all with fresh eyes, along the rest of the family!
So, dear MeFi's, please be my screeners: the first 3 minutes tells me it's playfully silly, solidly factual, and PG-ish throughout. Confirm me the whole video fits this template, and Theo Jr, Mrs. J & I will look forward to the weekend for watching this and getting another perspective on how to deal with the glut of meadowlarks. (I love meadowlarks, but... seven of them?)
and my critique of repetitive state birds does NOT carry over to chickadees, my #1 bird. Yes, we have lists for this sort of thing here, ha
posted by Theophrastus Johnson at 7:27 PM on March 2, 2021 [2 favorites]
So, dear MeFi's, please be my screeners: the first 3 minutes tells me it's playfully silly, solidly factual, and PG-ish throughout. Confirm me the whole video fits this template, and Theo Jr, Mrs. J & I will look forward to the weekend for watching this and getting another perspective on how to deal with the glut of meadowlarks. (I love meadowlarks, but... seven of them?)
and my critique of repetitive state birds does NOT carry over to chickadees, my #1 bird. Yes, we have lists for this sort of thing here, ha
posted by Theophrastus Johnson at 7:27 PM on March 2, 2021 [2 favorites]
This whole video was surprisingly gripping! And I’ve long complained that North Carolina’s state bird is bullshit - it’s one of the seven cardinals - but I don’t think I can get on board with the tundra swan as a replacement. That feels like a weird quirk of the model he’s using. We are not exactly lousy with tundra.
I am quite proud though of our state carnivorous plant the Venus flytrap, which is completely endemic to the Carolina coast. Almost everyone who isn’t from here thinks it’s a tropical plant, but we know. We Know. (I mean, we know because we have to learn it in third grade, but also because we’re proud)
posted by showbiz_liz at 7:37 PM on March 2, 2021 [6 favorites]
I am quite proud though of our state carnivorous plant the Venus flytrap, which is completely endemic to the Carolina coast. Almost everyone who isn’t from here thinks it’s a tropical plant, but we know. We Know. (I mean, we know because we have to learn it in third grade, but also because we’re proud)
posted by showbiz_liz at 7:37 PM on March 2, 2021 [6 favorites]
I love that Jon Bois's Google Earth style is now a whole style of internet documentary. I tried to parody it once and found the process very tedious, but I imagine that anyone that want's to put up with it is well deserving of making this type of content
posted by weewooweewoo at 7:44 PM on March 2, 2021 [3 favorites]
posted by weewooweewoo at 7:44 PM on March 2, 2021 [3 favorites]
So, dear MeFi's, please be my screeners
Possible issues:
posted by whatnotever at 7:47 PM on March 2, 2021 [18 favorites]
Possible issues:
- He says "titmouse."
- There's a photo of a woman aiming a pistol. She is wearing appropriate hearing protection, however.
- A story is told in which a flamingo collapses. The flamingo turns out okay. There is a period of one or two seconds in which the flamingo's fate is uncertain. It's more distressing because the flamingo has a name and had already gone through some stuff.
- The pistol woman basically accuses endangered birds of being welfare queens. I couldn't tell if it was a real quote or an embellishment, because she was being portrayed by a character in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
posted by whatnotever at 7:47 PM on March 2, 2021 [18 favorites]
I really like California's bird.
In 2014 "the most important person in advertising" became the new CEO of the company I worked for in Silicon Valley.
They wasted no time setting up a bigly produced all-hands event to lay down the law and introduce new VPs and directors. Big screens, simulcast, live translation and close captioning. Polished slideshow.
We peons were informed that the time to focus on quantity was over, we were now to focus on quality. Quality OKRs. Quality awards. Quality bonuses. Q U A L I T Y.
The implication that what our work of years lacked was quality was not lost on us.
Thing is, in every single slide the word was spelled quailty.
I took the most logical, mature, and highest road I could find. I sketched a California Quail, hid the word quailty in the drawing and printed t-shirts for my whole team. It became the team mascot. We had stuffed toy California Quails hidden in our area, California Quail easter eggs in the application. The tshirt became a collectors item and I never printed more than the original 20.
Around the same time a restaurant had opened half a block from my apartment in San Francisco called State Bird Provisions. I started going before they opened to the public, brought the people there strange delicacies when I traveled, and generally built a friendly relationship with the owner and cooks. Comped drinks, off-menu food, conversation. They had some of the best food I've ever tasted.
They became very popular very quickly, to the point that reservations had to be made 6 months in advance and walk ins had to stand in line 2 hours before ooening. I would still go there once in a while and sit at the chefs table, but bringing other people with my with no reservation was out of the question.
I intentionally wore the California Quail tshirt for a solo dinner there and the chef loved it and the story behind it. I traded him a tshirt for a next day reservation for a party of six for my sister's birthday.
Getting the reservation was exceptional in itself, but as I was walking out I ran into a group of well known high ranking sycophantic snobs from work.
Them: How did you get a table here? We've been trying for weeks!
Me: I come here all the time.
Them:
Hostess: He was here yesterday too.
Them: Really? Aren't you an engineer in the REDACTED team?
Me: Yeah, but I focus on quailty. Good night!
And that is why I love California's State Bird, and how I learned that a little sip of misdirected petty revenge makes for a great digestif.
posted by Dr. Curare at 8:01 PM on March 2, 2021 [100 favorites]
In 2014 "the most important person in advertising" became the new CEO of the company I worked for in Silicon Valley.
They wasted no time setting up a bigly produced all-hands event to lay down the law and introduce new VPs and directors. Big screens, simulcast, live translation and close captioning. Polished slideshow.
We peons were informed that the time to focus on quantity was over, we were now to focus on quality. Quality OKRs. Quality awards. Quality bonuses. Q U A L I T Y.
The implication that what our work of years lacked was quality was not lost on us.
Thing is, in every single slide the word was spelled quailty.
I took the most logical, mature, and highest road I could find. I sketched a California Quail, hid the word quailty in the drawing and printed t-shirts for my whole team. It became the team mascot. We had stuffed toy California Quails hidden in our area, California Quail easter eggs in the application. The tshirt became a collectors item and I never printed more than the original 20.
Around the same time a restaurant had opened half a block from my apartment in San Francisco called State Bird Provisions. I started going before they opened to the public, brought the people there strange delicacies when I traveled, and generally built a friendly relationship with the owner and cooks. Comped drinks, off-menu food, conversation. They had some of the best food I've ever tasted.
They became very popular very quickly, to the point that reservations had to be made 6 months in advance and walk ins had to stand in line 2 hours before ooening. I would still go there once in a while and sit at the chefs table, but bringing other people with my with no reservation was out of the question.
I intentionally wore the California Quail tshirt for a solo dinner there and the chef loved it and the story behind it. I traded him a tshirt for a next day reservation for a party of six for my sister's birthday.
Getting the reservation was exceptional in itself, but as I was walking out I ran into a group of well known high ranking sycophantic snobs from work.
Them: How did you get a table here? We've been trying for weeks!
Me: I come here all the time.
Them:
Hostess: He was here yesterday too.
Them: Really? Aren't you an engineer in the REDACTED team?
Me: Yeah, but I focus on quailty. Good night!
And that is why I love California's State Bird, and how I learned that a little sip of misdirected petty revenge makes for a great digestif.
posted by Dr. Curare at 8:01 PM on March 2, 2021 [100 favorites]
If you'd ever sat and listened to a mockingbird run through their repertoire, you'd be OK with them as well...
posted by jim in austin at 8:26 PM on March 2, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by jim in austin at 8:26 PM on March 2, 2021 [2 favorites]
I wish the alphabetical montage at the end went slower. It takes time to read the names! But this was charming and interesting.
posted by janell at 8:29 PM on March 2, 2021
posted by janell at 8:29 PM on March 2, 2021
Possible issues:Shut it down! We're eating unsweetened oatmeal and going to bed early then. What's next? Blue footed booby? Nest of iniquity, this avian trend.
He says "titmouse."
LOL thanks for the bullet points, game on for video nite with the fam this Friday.
...Unless he talks any smack about chickadees, I will for real pull the plug. What sort of soulless monster can not muster a wide-eyed smile at those lil' acrobats??
posted by Theophrastus Johnson at 8:37 PM on March 2, 2021 [4 favorites]
There is zero chickadee bashing.
posted by janell at 9:04 PM on March 2, 2021 [4 favorites]
posted by janell at 9:04 PM on March 2, 2021 [4 favorites]
q*spouse pointed out that an instrumental version of “Scrubs” plays over a key part of the video. Well done, sir.
posted by q*ben at 9:24 PM on March 2, 2021 [6 favorites]
posted by q*ben at 9:24 PM on March 2, 2021 [6 favorites]
Video includes a credit to Carlos Santos for "RStudio wizardry" so I have to assume the maps were created in R/RStudio. Though I'm sure a similar style could be achieved in many other tools.
posted by commander_fancypants at 11:02 PM on March 2, 2021
posted by commander_fancypants at 11:02 PM on March 2, 2021
The content is great of course, but I really enjoyed the jerky mouse wheel / pinch zoom movements as he navigates around the map. It's like accidentally walking in on someone while they're geeking out over something in real time, and just have to show you what they're into.
posted by jon1270 at 3:19 AM on March 3, 2021
posted by jon1270 at 3:19 AM on March 3, 2021
Very glad to see that he was wise enough to avoid criticizing Alabama. Alabama actually has the only appropriate state bird, the Yellowhammer. Indigenous, still pretty widespread in the state even though development, and the only thing that rhymes: Rammer, Jammer, Yellowhammer, give 'em hell, Alabama!
Try that with Connecticut.
posted by halfbuckaroo at 3:35 AM on March 3, 2021 [3 favorites]
Try that with Connecticut.
posted by halfbuckaroo at 3:35 AM on March 3, 2021 [3 favorites]
Eh, at least the Rhode Island Red has something to do with the specific state.
Not to mention, it’s been done before, and in a less time-wasting format....
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:41 AM on March 3, 2021
Not to mention, it’s been done before, and in a less time-wasting format....
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:41 AM on March 3, 2021
Try that with Connecticut.
Rhode Island Red
Rhode Island White
We’re Rhode Island
Through day and night!
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:43 AM on March 3, 2021
Rhode Island Red
Rhode Island White
We’re Rhode Island
Through day and night!
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:43 AM on March 3, 2021
This is great! Reminds me of Gary Gulman's (fictional) state capitals bit.
posted by bluefly at 4:12 AM on March 3, 2021 [5 favorites]
posted by bluefly at 4:12 AM on March 3, 2021 [5 favorites]
@bluefly that state abbreviation video is 100% factual. When I was a bank teller, Dotty was my customer...always trying to tell me more about hollandaise than I ever really wanted to know. How Dotty is that?
posted by adekllny at 5:37 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by adekllny at 5:37 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
Rhode Island Red
Rhode Island White
We’re Rhode Island
Through day and night!
Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh!
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:42 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
Rhode Island White
We’re Rhode Island
Through day and night!
Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh!
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:42 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
I suppose it's OK but after I'd watched a couple of minutes I thought "I don't have time for this."
To be scrupulously fair, that's my reaction to most videos I get pointed at.
posted by Aardvark Cheeselog at 6:45 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
To be scrupulously fair, that's my reaction to most videos I get pointed at.
posted by Aardvark Cheeselog at 6:45 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
No teacher is ever going to want to teach a lesson that includes the word "titmouse" that's just a nonstarter.
I suppose that rules out the rest of the "tits" altogether.
And as for chickadees, well, a tit by any other name would sound as tweet.
posted by villard at 6:51 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
I suppose that rules out the rest of the "tits" altogether.
And as for chickadees, well, a tit by any other name would sound as tweet.
posted by villard at 6:51 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
As an aside, the song of my state bird (the Hermit Thrush) is delightful.
posted by pol at 7:41 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by pol at 7:41 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
North Carolina's state bird should be multiple birds. The multibird.
There is a Carolina chickadee and a Carolina wren, though, and lately I'm really into the mourning doves and the turkey buzzards.
posted by amtho at 7:53 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
There is a Carolina chickadee and a Carolina wren, though, and lately I'm really into the mourning doves and the turkey buzzards.
posted by amtho at 7:53 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
That was fun, but spent a little too much time on Florida. Although I have to admit the back and forth in the legislature was pretty interesting. Also not sure about his suggestions for improvements. My state gets the nice but boring Brown Thrasher replaced by the even more unremarkable Brown-headed Nuthatch.
posted by TedW at 8:03 AM on March 3, 2021
posted by TedW at 8:03 AM on March 3, 2021
The scrub jay just can't catch a break. In my part of Florida, back around 2005, they asked the public for suggestions for a name for the new rails-to-trails project. The trail cut through a lot of scrubland (remember, it's a long-ago built railbed) and scrub jay habitat.
So, Scrub Jay Trail was a popular suggestion. Makes sense, right? The local paper championed it.
What did they pick? The utterly generic and meaningless "Legacy Trail." Sigh.
posted by martin q blank at 8:22 AM on March 3, 2021
So, Scrub Jay Trail was a popular suggestion. Makes sense, right? The local paper championed it.
What did they pick? The utterly generic and meaningless "Legacy Trail." Sigh.
posted by martin q blank at 8:22 AM on March 3, 2021
"If you have a question about why something is the way it is in Utah, the answer is usually Mormons."
posted by box at 8:41 AM on March 3, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by box at 8:41 AM on March 3, 2021 [2 favorites]
I've felt for years that Michigan should dump the boring-ass robin and go with the jack pine warbler (or Kirtland's warbler, but birds shouldn't be named after people, and besides Kirtland was from Ohio so Michiganders would never approve of the name). Breeding range of the bird: Michigan. Sure it flies south for the winter, just like your in-laws, but when it's sexy time for the warbler it's a clearing in a Michigan jack pine forest or nothing.
Minnesota can keep the loon. It's a good bird. Much like the flamingo in Florida it's already included on every damn thing, so it is a good obvious choice.
posted by caution live frogs at 9:11 AM on March 3, 2021 [2 favorites]
Minnesota can keep the loon. It's a good bird. Much like the flamingo in Florida it's already included on every damn thing, so it is a good obvious choice.
posted by caution live frogs at 9:11 AM on March 3, 2021 [2 favorites]
No teacher is ever going to want to teach a lesson that includes the word "titmouse" that's just a nonstarter.
Teachers in England would be all over that and if they didn't the kids would bring it up. Then the teachers would go drown their sorrows with a pint at the Cock & Something on Arse Way. The English have all kinds of tits flying all over the place. Long tail tits are the best.
posted by srboisvert at 10:21 AM on March 3, 2021
Teachers in England would be all over that and if they didn't the kids would bring it up. Then the teachers would go drown their sorrows with a pint at the Cock & Something on Arse Way. The English have all kinds of tits flying all over the place. Long tail tits are the best.
posted by srboisvert at 10:21 AM on March 3, 2021
Sharing the goldfinch with NJ and Washington is odd, but I like it and it seems so Iowan that I think we should have first dibs.
Anyway the video and this thread is a lot more fun than the bike helmet stuff
posted by Caxton1476 at 10:41 AM on March 3, 2021 [2 favorites]
Anyway the video and this thread is a lot more fun than the bike helmet stuff
posted by Caxton1476 at 10:41 AM on March 3, 2021 [2 favorites]
Caxton1476: "Anyway the video and this thread is a lot more fun than the bike helmet stuff"
Anyone who says birds don't need helmets is WRONG and I'mma fight you on this.
posted by caution live frogs at 11:24 AM on March 3, 2021 [4 favorites]
Anyone who says birds don't need helmets is WRONG and I'mma fight you on this.
posted by caution live frogs at 11:24 AM on March 3, 2021 [4 favorites]
I really enjoyed this, though I take issue with him not pointing out how utterly appropriate it is for the Baltimore Oriole to be Maryland's state bird.
posted by Zargon X at 11:32 AM on March 3, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by Zargon X at 11:32 AM on March 3, 2021 [2 favorites]
"To me, mockingbirds don't really scream Texas, unless I scream Texas at them first."
Carl Linnaeus gave them the binomial name is turdus polyglottos which is Latin for "talks a lot of shit". So that kinda fits.
posted by ryanrs at 11:44 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
Carl Linnaeus gave them the binomial name is turdus polyglottos which is Latin for "talks a lot of shit". So that kinda fits.
posted by ryanrs at 11:44 AM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
To add to this; recently on the Blue
My favourite species of birds are the ones named by people who clearly hate birds.
posted by indianbadger1 at 1:37 PM on March 3, 2021
My favourite species of birds are the ones named by people who clearly hate birds.
posted by indianbadger1 at 1:37 PM on March 3, 2021
I call foul. Im aggravated that he didnt even mention Arizona once. We have the cactus wren - an excellent and unique choice that really screams AZ. And his algorithm picked the Abert's Twohee, which Ive never heard of but looks like a lovely bird. Like California, AZ is clearly a good counter example with a current non-garbage state bird.
posted by Illusory contour at 1:41 PM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by Illusory contour at 1:41 PM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
adekllny wrote: @bluefly that state abbreviation video is 100% factual.
When Gary was on Conan, I only caught the first minute of his set. But I was super interested in seeing the documentary he mentioned that I spent way too much time futilely searching for it. It was only when his comedy special came out, and I saw the entire bit that I realized I was dumb. Anyway, this bird video makes me feel better years later ;) - people DO make documentaries (however short) on state-related nomenclature - and they ARE interesting!
posted by bluefly at 2:07 PM on March 3, 2021
When Gary was on Conan, I only caught the first minute of his set. But I was super interested in seeing the documentary he mentioned that I spent way too much time futilely searching for it. It was only when his comedy special came out, and I saw the entire bit that I realized I was dumb. Anyway, this bird video makes me feel better years later ;) - people DO make documentaries (however short) on state-related nomenclature - and they ARE interesting!
posted by bluefly at 2:07 PM on March 3, 2021
I admit, I didn't watch the whole video, but: does anyone have any idea why the Georgia state bird is the brown thrasher?
posted by amtho at 7:31 PM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by amtho at 7:31 PM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
I grant you that Virginia shares the cardinal with too many other states, but I'm still fond of it, if only because we had a dogwood tree in our front yard and the local cardinals like to perch in it, thus reproducing the image on practically every state sign.
Also, worm-eating warbler is not a very appetizing replacement, and I do not think "Virginia" when I see a loon. So I propose all the other states switch and Virginia keep the cardinal :)
posted by tavella at 8:49 PM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
Also, worm-eating warbler is not a very appetizing replacement, and I do not think "Virginia" when I see a loon. So I propose all the other states switch and Virginia keep the cardinal :)
posted by tavella at 8:49 PM on March 3, 2021 [1 favorite]
I think I heard him playing Flamingo by Kero Kero Bonito
posted by eckeric at 4:24 PM on March 4, 2021
Yeah, the music credits list is bird puns from start to finish, including "I Ran" by A Flock of Seagulls
posted by DoctorFedora at 11:44 PM on March 4, 2021
posted by DoctorFedora at 11:44 PM on March 4, 2021
The English have all kinds of tits flying all over the place.
My mum has great tits.
posted by How much is that froggie in the window at 12:31 AM on March 7, 2021
My mum has great tits.
posted by How much is that froggie in the window at 12:31 AM on March 7, 2021
...and lately I'm really into the mourning doves
Oh, man, I have missed mourning doves and their ineffably sad coo ah coo coo coo's ever since my mom and I left Idaho fifty odd years ago.
The English have all kinds of tits flying all over the place.
We have bushtits in Seattle who, besides having the bird name no decent human would ever give their child, build the most adorable moss and spider web socks of nests.
posted by y2karl at 12:57 PM on March 10, 2021 [2 favorites]
Oh, man, I have missed mourning doves and their ineffably sad coo ah coo coo coo's ever since my mom and I left Idaho fifty odd years ago.
The English have all kinds of tits flying all over the place.
We have bushtits in Seattle who, besides having the bird name no decent human would ever give their child, build the most adorable moss and spider web socks of nests.
posted by y2karl at 12:57 PM on March 10, 2021 [2 favorites]
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