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hunter

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18. The chickadees may be more closely related to parrots than other little brown birds.

Mon Oct 5, 2020, 04:06 PM

Oct 2020

Bird taxonomy has been in turmoil as gene sequencing became affordable.

I notice chickadees hold and manipulate sunflower seeds much as parrots do, and other little brown birds rarely do.

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Chickadee Wings [View all] H2O Man Oct 2020 OP

You dear brother are a breath of malaise Oct 2020 #1

Thank you! H2O Man Oct 2020 #2

I'm listening to her now malaise Oct 2020 #3

Good storyteller that you are MagickMuffin Oct 2020 #4

Thanks! H2O Man Oct 2020 #10

As always your words are a relief. MuseRider Oct 2020 #5

I'm sorry about your horse. H2O Man Oct 2020 #11

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OK THen As Long As You're Not Doing A Don Me. Oct 2020 #13

Never! H2O Man Oct 2020 #16

Rec: You took me there! Thank you! I needed that! MartyTheGreek Oct 2020 #7

Thank you! H2O Man Oct 2020 #14

I want to come feed the chickadees coeur_de_lion Oct 2020 #8

Can't listen to your daughter yet coeur_de_lion Oct 2020 #9

Great! H2O Man Oct 2020 #15

Okay walk slow meanwhile coeur_de_lion Oct 2020 #17

The chickadees may be more closely related to parrots than other little brown birds. hunter Oct 2020 #18

Wow! H2O Man Oct 2020 #19

Just reading this made me relax lunatica Oct 2020 #20

Very good! H2O Man Oct 2020 #21