Born too late to be an uptight Babylonian priest, born too soon to explore the stars, born just in time to be mentally ill and die in the climate apocalypse


wolf-and-ghostling
@wolf-and-ghostling

the robin.

europe wins, clearly.

propaganda disclaimer: the american robin is in slinky mode while the european robin is in poof mode. this is for dramatic emphasis. slinky mode on the european bobbin is still at least as ball as, if not rounder, than poof mode american. don't ever say i lack journalistic integrity

people from other continents and people knowledgeable about borbs: this is an invitation to show me your balls

(round birds. round birds !!)


huldratigress
@huldratigress

A local song sparrow in FULL ORB MODE


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in reply to @wolf-and-ghostling's post:

(I am American) the first time I saw a UK robin I was like "what is that it's so cute" and the person who told me it was a robin sounded slightly unsure... so I genuinely kind of didn't believe them until I looked it up later. they're so different, why would they be named the same thing? shouldn't a UK robin also be a thrush (or technically vice versa, the US one should be a flycatcher). I was so surprised!!

People giving names of British birds to birds they saw in North America were not thinking so much in terms of strict taxonomy, with which they were probably unfamiliar anyway, as of "hey, that reminds me of..."

Hence it's orange in front, so it's a robin.