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DIYSteve
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DIYSteve
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 Wed Dec 14, 2016 8:56 am |
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| olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | | The American robin isn't a robin, it's a thrush. |
Hmmm. More like this: In American vernacular it's both. Cf., Western Bluebird is a bluebird and a thrush. The confusion re "robins" is about the European Robin, once thought to be a thrush but now considered an old world flycatcher. But I get your point.
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Bedivere
Why Do Witches Burn?
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Thu Dec 15, 2016 6:22 pm |
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| BigSteve wrote: | | Bedivere wrote: | | Well whattaya know, a "Beaver" that isn't a Beaver. Dumb name if ya ask me. |
A Brook Trout is not a trout. A Nighthawk is not a hawk. |
Yeah, okay, but "Brook Trout" sure look and act like real trout. Apparently this "Mountain Beaver" can't be bothered to swim around and slap the water with it's big, flat tail (does it have a flat tail?) and thus the name is silly.
I don't know anything about Nighthawks. Do they eat Mountain Beavers?
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Pyrites
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Sat Dec 17, 2016 2:20 pm |
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Thanks. From replies it is clear these little guys are less seen than some species that have much smaller numbers, like Rocky Mountain bighorn.
Maybe I need to ask a question about rubber boas, or northern alligator lizards.
Keep Calm and Carry On?
Heck No.
Stay Excited and Get Outside!
Keep Calm and Carry On?
Heck No.
Stay Excited and Get Outside!
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DIYSteve
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Sat Dec 17, 2016 10:47 pm |
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| Bedivere wrote: | | I don't know anything about Nighthawks. Do they eat Mountain Beavers? |
No. They eat insects by swooping down with their mouth open into swarms of insects.
Nighthawks are part of the family Caprimulgidae, commonly known as goatsuckers. But they don't actually suck goats. Is your mind completely twisted now?
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puzzlr
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I was walking the loop trail in Discovery Park (Seattle) yesterday and saw park workers putting wire cages around hundreds of planted western hemlock seedlings. They said that there are lots of mountain beavers in the park and after they planted the seedlings the beavers ate hundreds of them. Hence the protection of the wire cages.
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GrnXnham
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Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:45 pm |
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Mountain beavers do NOT have a large flat tail.
In fact they have a very tiny little tail. You have to look closely to see it.
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Bedivere
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Thu Dec 22, 2016 8:10 pm |
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What a fraud. No tail, don't swim or build dams. Are we sure they're actually rodents?
So Steve, you're saying Nighthawks are related to el chupacabra but they just eat bugs? Great, you know how hard it is to scrape gray matter off a textured ceiling?
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