Date: 4/1/26 12:59 pm From: Kevin Lucas via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] April Is here! April Is here!
AI h! AI h! AI h! AI h! April Is here! April Is here! I recognize that call ;-)
Happy April In hallowed lister land, this first day of which is a very happy one indeed for some of those whose sightings have been doubted. Recent application of AI has revealed, in a fresh release, that which has long been considered the only accurate way to distinguish a Ross's Goose from the very similar Snow Goose -- careful, non-flight observation of the size and shape of the Ross's Goose bill: small, triangular with a rather straight, not curved, edge where it meets the feathered face, and lacking the grin patch that's so obvious in many Snow Geese, and rather subtle depending on angle of view, and nearly absent on the many Ross's x Lesser Snow Geese hybrids -- Well that's Absolutely Indeed hooeey (AI h -- the h is ineffable). [My sincere apologies to all cognoscenti who found that Acronym Included hastily.] AIh has determined with Authoritative, Indisputable hubris that it's much more Accurate Indeed having brief views of a small-ish, white-ish goose, in flight, that don't show the bill shape, And Instead have no good view of even the rounded head shape of a Ross's Goose. In Ross's Goose accounts in vetted scientific study reports, in Abundantly Illustrafield handbooks and guides, All Is having to be revamped to Accommodate Immutably held rare record reports.
Audubon's Infallible hirsute brush sketches of the incredible Bird of Washington now might be proven to not have been a fabrication for fame and fortune, rather the earliest use of a disguised stylus Accurately Interpreting how AIh would soon generate new life forms. Rare bird Accounts Imbued hysterically can now be recognized as following the Audubon Effect -- what's seen as a misleading broad brush will now be Automatically Included, here and now, in "Confirmed" eBird results. The Asterisk Inclusion hallmark that was soon to accompany ALL sightings by every lister who had ever had, even one of, his or her sightings "Confirmed" based somewhat on the lister's perceived worthy reputation (rather than plausible, crediby reported evidence), is now seen As Instantly hammered.
David Sibley has Acknowledged, Irritatedly, having relied too much on museum specimens and observing Ross's Geese breeding colonies in person, Affecting Impressions he'd held as reasonably obtained. The skin of many a suspect reporter's reputation is what's got saved here. Sibley's Accompanying Illustrations have shown this distinct bill shape, and he'd Assumed, Incorrectly, helped bird watchers who strive for enjoyment and accuracy. All Is hogwash. Reprints using new Aura Infused histograms will be released soon.
Now that we've fabricated answers to our ultimate questioning, Researchers are realizing they need to learn what the ultimate question is, or questions are, e.g. tackling the true meaning of the initials A and I. So far, many have locked-in that "A" is an abbreviation for "artificial". Some are doubting whether the "I" is an abbreviation, arguing that it instead seems to pair best with "artificial" when understood to be the first-person singular nominative personal pronoun.
Addendae, Incidentals, hearsay: Sibley has Also Implied having more corrections lined up -- acknowledging that in areas where they're rare, pure Yellow-shafted Northern Flickers can best have their identification nailed correctly by glimpses of them in flight, during which it's not possible to observe all the pure field marks previously deemed necessary to distinguish them from the much more common and easy to overlook intergrade flicker. He Acknowledges Including his illustrations of subtle plumage characteristics doesn't, in itself, prove any particular sighting, of a flicker that didn't see all the necessary bits, to be uncertain. The fit of a species in blank in a year needs list is an aspect of causation's Accurately Inverted hole theory, not just stringing us along. Confirming observations of a single individual flicker, with one photo showing its intergrade plumage and one photo not showing its intergrade plumage All Instantly have been justified as being of two different individuals -- species-time continuum warping, just-in-time Evolution Makes Checklist Confirmations, a.k.a. E M C squared. [A.k.a. is an abbreviation for Also Know As, sorry for my ATA -- acronym tardiness again.]
This fresh release of info coincides with the upcoming launch of a new AIh company -- paralleling similar releases immediately preceding the taking flight of many a bird.
Well, that's about 'Ten pounds of sightings in a five pound bag.' Blivet birding won, oh one.
Merry Merlin Day! [MMD!], Kevin Lucas Yakima County, Washington (State of, not Bird of)
