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The ‘devil bird’ lands in New York, with more likely to come
- neonate 3y agohttps://archive.md/xmBxU https://archive.md/xmBxU
- bilekas 3y agoA bird lover with the name "Timothy Wing" . That just made my day.
- fnands 3y agoThe nominative determinism is strong with this one
- nkmnz 3y agoHe might have finally spotted Ibycus‘ cranes.
- bookofjoe 3y agohttps://www.fantasticfiction.com/j/erica-jong/isadora-wing/ https://www.fantasticfiction.com/j/erica-jong/isadora-wing/
- casefields 3y agoAn aptronym, aptonym, or euonym is a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
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- ImaCake 3y agoHow about a country incapable of stopping the consequences of unregulated industry? That fits with global warming.
- V__ 3y agoThere is a difference between can't and doesn't want to.
- JackMorgan 3y agoIt's almost as if half the elected officials are paid by the ultra wealthy to block all legislation that isn't about social wedge issues. As if gay rights is what's causing the planet to heat and inflation to eat away at our earnings. And then the billionaires use their propaganda networks to point to the lack of progress and say, "see, it's impossible, let's not tax billionaires. In fact, this study the billionaires just did shows that taxing the billionaires will just make things worse, and the real problem is kids knowing that gay people exist." And, well, propaganda works.
- ImaCake 3y agoBirds are a great way to measure changes in ecosystems. They are, relatively, easy to spot and there are few enough species that it’s possible for a lot of nerds to know all of the local ones well enough to do routine informal surveys. People have been noticing changes in bird distributions for a long time. Cattle Egrets have spread with agricultural development and are now common in Australia, a continent they were previously not found on. Things moving north with climate change is just the next step really.
- ethbr0 3y agoThey also have the benefit of being able to travel large distances through an environment (air) still largely unrestricted by humans. Long distance land movement for terrestrial wildlife is more fraught these days.
- ImaCake 3y agoThis is only true for a subset of birds. Many birds either avoid or are unable to fly through dense urban areas. Maybe this is more a thing in Australia where most of our birds are not migratory.
- ceejayoz 3y ago> Things moving north with climate change is just the next step really. Including, unfortunately, tick and mosquito borne disease. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/why-lyme-and-other-tick-borne-diseases-are-on-the-rise https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/why-lyme-and-other-tick... I really like living in a place where "permanent allergy to red meat" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyomma_americanum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyomma_americanum) isn't a thing, but they're getting closer and closer to my area.
- PcChip 3y agoNever heard of meat allergy, that sounds like a nightmare situation
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- noisy_boy 3y agoThose wondering why it is named so[0]: > The word anhinga comes from a'ñinga in the Brazilian Tupi language and means "devil bird" or "snake bird".[2] The origin of the name is apparent when swimming: only the neck appears above water so the bird looks like a snake ready to strike. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhinga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhinga
- daggersandscars 3y agoThey also dry their feathers by standing still with their wings out. Anhingas are pretty cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhinga#/media/File:Anhingadrying.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhinga#/media/File:Anhingadry...
- msrenee 3y agoCormorants as well. Very cool birds. I assume Anhingas are the same, but cormorants are less buoyant than most waterfowl because they need to dive deep from the water's surface. When they're just floating, you don't see much of their back and they look like a tiny periscope sticking out of the water.
- pridkett 3y agoIf you’re a diver, cormorants are a ton of fun. Nothing like being 40ft under water and seeing a bird just swim by like there’s nothing to it. Works with both the normal kind and the flightless kind from Galapagos. Just a lot of fun to see evolution excel from under the water.
- fullstop 3y agoI loved seeing pelicans dive under while I was snorkeling, being 40' under water and seeing a cormorant would be incredible. That's a sight the vast majority of people will never see.
- msrenee 3y agoAnhingas. I was vaguely aware of the term devil bird for Anhingas, but I can't help but assume that they used it in the title to make people think it was some kind of dangerous invasive that was imported. There are standard common names for North American birds. It's not like fish where there's a number of common names depending on the region. If you're writing an article about a bird species and you happen to use the scary-sounding non-standard name for it, I'm going to assume it's intentional to scare people. Anyway, Anhingas are pretty common further south on the coast and occupy more or less the same niche as cormorants. Fishermen don't like them, but they don't like a lot of birds that eat fish. Edit: Subject-verb agreement. Forgot how to grammar there. Probably missed something else too.
- hulitu 3y ago> The ‘devil bird’ lands in New York, with more likely to come They shall be thakful that no Bird of prey [1] has landed. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_starships https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_starships
- this_steve_j 3y agoHere in Florida anhingas are commonly called “snake birds”. When they are swimming, the head pokes out of the water and looks similar to a snake, so perhaps that’s how they earned the name. Just about every moving body of water or lake will have several of them on the shoreline stretching their wings to dry.
- eggy 3y ago"Earth’s temperature has risen by an average of 0.14° Fahrenheit (0.08° Celsius) per decade since 1880, or about 2° F in total." [1] So a total of 1.1° C (2° F) since 1880. Could it be something else? Food supply and deforestation? The temperature shift does not seem to be significant enough. I am assuming when Prospect Park gets a foot of snow, they will head South? [1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
- TeMPOraL 3y agoIsn't the yearly average a bad metric to track anyway? I'd imagine most living things are much more sensitive to minimum and maximum temperatures. If the yearly temperature range expands in both directions, it won't be properly visible in the yearly average.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoThe permanent freeze boundaries of the Arctic and Antarctic regions shift by hundreds of miles with each degree in global average change, this is where the sea level dangers come from.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoFair enough. This is the kind of cyclical process without discontinuities, so it will follow the average. However, for things like animal migration - and generally the more immediate threats of climate change, such as increasingly destructive weather events, ecosystems dying out, crops failing, wet bulb temperature hitting levels that make some countries uninhabitable in the summer - tracking the high and low points matters much more. E.g. the average may even go down, but if this is because cold point drops and high point goes up, ever for a small part of the year, we can kiss farming in the region goodbye.
- notfried 3y agoThe rise is not uniformly distributed, not regionally nor seasonally. While a degree or two across Earth may seem small, this is only the average, and across the year. There are regions where the rise is much higher, which could affect the ecosystem in that area significantly, which would have compounding effects on related and neighboring ecosystems.
- ungamedplayer 3y agoLooks like a snake neck darter.
- jollyllama 3y agoGone away is the bluebird; here to stay, is the new bird. I always wondered what the new bird was, and now I know.
- pfdietz 3y agoI saw an Eastern Bluebird this weekend!
- michaelcampbell 3y agoNorth Atlanta suburbia we have them. Pretty common when I put out mealworms as food, but virtually impossible to see otherwise.
- jollyllama 3y agoI saw one later yesterday too. Pretty cool!
- pfdietz 3y agoI went out with a local birding group in upstate NY this last weekend (had a great time, with all sorts of warblers spotted or at least heard; Merlin is a great app.) There was some slightly serious hope we'd see one of these birds at the various watery areas we visited (we didn't). Now off to install Ebird.
- techterrier 3y agoTheres also Birda, the gamified version of eBird...data ends up with the scientists all the same
- m348e912 3y agoThis story is about anhingas. I immediately assumed it would be about grackles.