Fwd: are you a birder?
J B Churchill (jbc@caf.wvu.edu)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:21:23 -0500 (EST)
Thought the ospreyers could appreciate this one
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Subject: are you a birder?
You might be a birder if...
Someone yells "Duck!", and you look up and shout "Where?"
You criticize television programs and commercials that depict a Bald Eagle
but play a Red-tailed Hawk call.
Your kids are named Buteo and Accipiter.
People stop and stare when you pish at the shrubbery at the local mall.
On sunny days you hop in the car, crank up your tape of bird calls, and
drive like crazy to the nearest mountain where the thermals are great for
soaring hawks.
You pay a neighbor kid $20 to roll on a carcass and lay still while you
search the sky for vultures.
Clouds take on the shape of birds, and you can distinguish male from female,
and adult from immature plumage.
A machine squeaks at work and you describe it to maintenance as sounding
like a black-and-white warbler.
The first time you meet your future in-laws, you demonstrate the courtship
dance of the woodcock, replete with sound effects.
You identify calls of birds in the soundtracks of television shows and
movies.
You're willing to fight with anyone who criticizes your optics.
You participate in hours-long discussions about the pros and cons of using a
certain field guide.
You lose friends, and perhaps even your spouse, from fighting over the
pronunciation of "pileated."
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Gary Williams
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West Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
P.O. Box 6125
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506-6125
Phone (304) 293-3794 ext. 2301
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