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Jenn's avatar

Birds have been on my mind this week, too. We have an evening view of a cardinal nest from our living room. We have spent countless hours mesmerized by their life; this week their babies hatched. One of my kids is a mini bird expert and can recognize them by sounds and sight. Relayed all kinds of cool facts about cardinals to me. Thank you for this wonderful spotlight on bird brains!

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Neil Barker's avatar

Excellent essay Perry. My constant favourites of birds and intelligence are the Black-capped Chickadee and the Common Crow. I am heavily biased in their favour though as I've come to be familiar with some regulars on my Nature hikes. For the chickadees, it's their curiosity plus their spatial memory of where they store seeds. For the crows, it's that look of recognition of a fellow intellgent being.

Also, that footage of the Peregrine Falcon in her stoop dive is amazing. I have been fortunate a few times in my life to see Peregrines either perches or flying, but haven't seen them diving yet!

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