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Lex Luthor
 Post subject: Bird Migration
PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 12:42 pm 
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I was browsing Wikipedia, and noticed this.

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It's funny how the French regard that entire part as "Mississippi".
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Heh, well, it's an ornithology term - the Mississippi Flyway. What they're saying is that that whole thing is the Mississippi Flyway, and there's very little mixing between, say, the MS Flyway and the Pacific, for example.

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Bird gang territories. You have to be wearing the right plumage or they lay the avian smack-down on you.

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Yeah I see now it is in English too... but they should still rename it especially since some birds will never be anywhere near the Mississippi. It would be like calling Poland part of Spain.
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So does this mean that Peru will get the birds migrating from California?

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Nevandal wrote:
So does this mean that Peru will get the birds migrating from California?


Since both are close to the Mississippi (apparently), its pretty likely.
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Well, to me it look like a leprechaun to me they would follow the pacific flyway?

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Why is this in rants?

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Well, to be fair, most of that (south of the Great Lakes, at least) IS the Mississippi River Basin.

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What surprises me more, actually, is that very northerly birds (in, say, the area of Washington State) actually *do*, evidently, cross the Great Divide.

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Mookhow wrote:
Why is this in rants?


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Mookhow wrote:
Why is this in rants?

Maybe they're angry birds.

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Stathol wrote:
Mookhow wrote:
Why is this in rants?

Maybe they're angry birds.

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Mookhow wrote:
Stathol wrote:
Mookhow wrote:
Why is this in rants?

Maybe they're angry birds.

+1

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Well played sir.

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