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May 7, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
BIRD NESTING STYLES: A CRITICAL REVIEW

American robin
-Pragmatic
-Tidy
-Traditional values
-Went to the same high school as Martha Stewart Image
Hummingbird
-Perfectionist
-Substance over scale
-Dabbles in crystals and divination
-Possible fairy ancestry Image
Common tailorbird
-Resourceful
-Forward-thinker
-Has sewn 3 million face masks
-Into "primitive technology" before it was cool ImageImage
Pigeon
-Rejects the extravagances and hypocrisy of late-stage capitalism
-Doesn't care what you think anyways
-The only god is chaos Image
Kittiwake
-Fearless
-Thrill-seeker
-Alex Honn-who? Image
Sociable weaver
-We are birb
-You join birb
-Soon, all will be birb Image
Toucan
-O HAI!
-The tree was like this when I found it
-Do you like cereal? Image
Hammerkop
-Close to 10,000 sticks
-Can support a human's weight
-It's not quite finished, though
-What? Too much? Image
Penguin
-It's fine, I put some blubber on it Image
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/…
~*~PART TWO~*~

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May 21, 2021
This is called inosculation: when branches or roots of different trees are in prolonged intimate contact, they often abrade each other, exposing their inner tissues, which may eventually fuse.

It's not so much one tree feeding another as the formation of a new hybrid organism.
In this case, it looks like two beeches (which are partial to inosculation) fused their limbs. Later, the smaller tree's roots/lower trunk were cut away, yet it survived by continuing to exchange water and sugars with its other half. It had already become part of something bigger
Plants have an astounding ability to merge w/ one another & grafting is widely practiced in agriculture. It's very common for a fruit tree to be a hybrid: a fruit-bearing 'scion' (top part) grafted onto a hardy rootstock that grows well in local soil.

From McPhee's 'Oranges': Image
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May 8, 2020
By popular demand:

BIRD NESTING STYLES: A CRITICAL REVIEW - PART TWO

White tern
-This is it. This is the nest
-A failure to recognize the fundamental impermanence of being is the source of all suffering
-Taught Marie Kondo everything she knows Image
Red ovenbird
-Fond of turquoise
-Will challenge you to a contest measured in Scoville heat units
-Have you seen my prize-winning succulents?
-Knows the One True Cornbread recipe Image
Vogelkop bowerbird

-Apprenticed (read: volunteered) at MOMA one summer
-My favorite artist? You wouldn't know them
-Actually, it's not a "nest"—it's an interactive sculptural platform that uses found objects and corporeal semiotics to interrogate the very essence of intimacy Image
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