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🗓️ 17 July 2024
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0:00.0 | This is bird note. I'm Jay Drew Lanham, an ornithologist, naturalist and writer. |
0:10.0 | I'm often asked, what's your favorite bird. My standard response is the one with |
0:16.8 | feathers. Birds deserve more than the disappearing by billions and reducing |
0:22.0 | them to just names on a list. |
0:24.0 | But here's the recent taxonomy of my obsessions, |
0:28.0 | selected birds of the moment, annotated by why. White crowned sparrow. |
0:36.0 | Envying the brown ignored thing. |
0:40.0 | All sparrows and Bi-Poc are top of the list. |
0:43.4 | Loggerhead Shrike |
0:48.3 | Stuck on a raptorial passerin. |
0:51.5 | This bad boy is a songbird that hunts. |
0:55.0 | Bobo Link, aka rice bird. |
1:02.0 | Black birds are My Birds. History lesson. Rice Bird ancestors shared the terror and toil and low country rice fields with enslaved black people. |
1:16.3 | They were persecuted for eating the rice that made the planter class filthy rich, so they could enslave even more black people and grow more rice. |
1:28.9 | See the cycle? There you have it. three fave birds and why. This list is subject to change and right soon. |
1:40.0 | Stay tuned. I'm Jay Drew Lanham. |
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