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Author of BECOMING EARTH: HOW OUR PLANET CAME TO LIFE (@RandomHouse 6/2024) ✵ Contributing Writer @NYTmag @sciam ✵ 🇱🇧🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 ✵ Surname rhymes with neighbor

May 7, 2020, 12 tweets

BIRD NESTING STYLES: A CRITICAL REVIEW

American robin
-Pragmatic
-Tidy
-Traditional values
-Went to the same high school as Martha Stewart

Hummingbird
-Perfectionist
-Substance over scale
-Dabbles in crystals and divination
-Possible fairy ancestry

Common tailorbird
-Resourceful
-Forward-thinker
-Has sewn 3 million face masks
-Into "primitive technology" before it was cool

Pigeon
-Rejects the extravagances and hypocrisy of late-stage capitalism
-Doesn't care what you think anyways
-The only god is chaos

Kittiwake
-Fearless
-Thrill-seeker
-Alex Honn-who?

Sociable weaver
-We are birb
-You join birb
-Soon, all will be birb

Toucan
-O HAI!
-The tree was like this when I found it
-Do you like cereal?

Hammerkop
-Close to 10,000 sticks
-Can support a human's weight
-It's not quite finished, though
-What? Too much?

Penguin
-It's fine, I put some blubber on it

Credits:

Robin: Joan, Flickr bit.ly/3digMoa

Hummingbird: Eli Duke, Flickr bit.ly/3cfa81Q

Pigeon: reddit.com/r/therewasanat…

Sociable weaver: Diego Delso
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nido…

Common Tailorbird: JM Garg

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_ta…

Kittiwake: Natural England, Flickr
bit.ly/2A9Blov

Penguin: David Cook, Flickr
bit.ly/2A9Bqsj

Toucan:

Hammerkop: aladdin.st/bird-watching/…

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