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Zilker’s ‘hot boirds’ of Summer


Allow me to introduce to you Zilker Botanical Gardens flashiest and loudest hot boirds of summer.

  •   Northern Cardinal: the diva bro
• Carolina Wren: loudest under 2 oz
• Blue Jay: loudly judging me
• Carolina Chickadee: my tiny hype man
• White-eyed Vireo: glitchy robot bro
• Lesser Goldfinch: little sunbeam chaser
• Summer Tanager: throaty firecracker
• Black-crested Titmouse: punk rocker

by Abtarep

9 Comments

  1. boazsharmoniums

    This is hilarious! Merlin is one of my favorite apps.

  2. Coujelais

    Thank you for this! I’ve been going on YouTube trying to differentiate a different bird calls I’m hearing in my backyard.

  3. is-your-oven-on

    Merlin has been trying to convince me there’s a Great Horned Owl and a wild turkey in my woods. I just started using it, how accurate is it in general? For the record, I see the ones here all the time and it picks those up accurately. It also heard a hawk and we do have a hawk pair in our woods.

    But I’m really having trouble buying the owl/turkey.

  4. magnetic_west

    Where my bunting at!?

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  5. elizabethredditor

    I need to get myself some binoculars so I can go do some birding in Austin. I have the Merlin app which I think is good for a brand-new birder but I need some help seeing these lil birbs way up in the trees

  6. victotronics

    Do I parse that you (or Merlin) caught all those in 4 minutes? Nice!

  7. elegiac_bloom

    Indeed, a veritable rogues gallery of rascally ranconteurs.

  9. West_Economist6673

    My coworker and I, back when we were both park rangers, came up with a list of common songbirds and their affiliations:

    Northern cardinal: lawful evil (territorial, attacks cars)

    ??? neutral evil

    House sparrow (not pictured): chaotic evil (self-explanatory, the Ed Gein of songbirds)

    Lesser goldfinch: lawful neutral (flocks, eats seeds, well-behaved)

    Carolina wren: true neutral (always just kinda there)

    White-eyed vireo: chaotic neutral (who knows what they’re up to)

    Carolina chickadee: lawful good (flocks, mobs predators)

    Summer tanager: neutral good (solitary, pretty, eats bees & wasps)

    Blue jay: chaotic good (gregarious, mobs hawks but also imitates them to scare off other birds)

    Would love recommendations for neutral evil songbirds

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