Imagine You're A Chat And You Ditch Your Chat Spouse To Go To The Chat Nightclub To Have A Hot Chat Date

imagine you're a chat and you ditch your chat spouse to go to the chat nightclub to have a hot chat date and you see your chat spouse there who is also ditching you. wyd

(from the Yellow-breasted Chat account in Birds of the World)

The dissertation is officially real!

Fun fact: You can fit a barn owl inside a Quaker oats container.

Some of their tail and wings will stick out a bit but the whole rest of the bird fits inside ao this is a sound method to use when banding youngsters who are near fledging (and thus adult sized).

Red-tailed Comet (Sappho sparganurus)

A brilliant hummingbird belonging to tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae, the "coquette" hummingbirds. Primarily resident in the Andes from central Bolivia south into northern Argentina, as well as on isolated mountains of Córdoba.

Photo: Evelyn Henriquez ML503935561

American Woodcock demonstrates "distal rhynchokinesis," the ability to flex the end of its bill. This allows it to grab earthworms it encounters when probing in soil. Other shorebirds, including Dunlins & Sanderlings, can bend their bills in this way. 😃

"There's a certain dark irony to it," she says after several long minutes of quiet. Her toes dabble at the water's edge as she gathers herself to continue,

"Like... the nurse said to me 'I am furious on your behalf, for how you were treated' after I told her about that, and she could not connect that precisely the same thing was happening right there then by her very hand. Her voice was shaking! And I had to sit there, using all of the absolutely critical survival skills I learned back then to be as still as I could and generally agreeable because anything less and, well..."

The investigation, opened in October 2020, revealed thousands of incidents of seclusion and restraint in just two and a half school years. Although students with disabilities make up only 10.8% of students enrolled in the district, every single student the district secluded was a student with disabilities, as were 99%—all but one—of the students the district restrained. The district routinely resorted to seclusion and restraint in non-emergency situations instead of using appropriate individualized behavior interventions tailored to individual students’ needs. The investigation found that these practices often intensified students’ distress, with some students engaging in self-harm and showing other signs of trauma while in seclusion.