Track 11: Words On Birds

• SPEAKER_01: Bird Talk, your weekly fine-feathered feature that helps you get more birds more often for more fun.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Now, here are your avian amigos, David and Scott Minow.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Well, good afternoon, and welcome to Bird Talk.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
  
• SPEAKER_00: You are listening to the backyard bird feeding specialist, Scott and David, with Bird Talk.
  
• SPEAKER_00: And we're going to go to the phones and talk with Tucker today.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Hello, Tucker.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Well, good hello.
  
• SPEAKER_01: I got these sucklings from Catmandu, actually.
  
• SPEAKER_01: So I put in a salt lick and some honeysuckle, and I noticed that the quills of the hatchlings
  
• SPEAKER_01: change the sheath of their plumage, just like grouse is in their nestlings.
  
• SPEAKER_01: So can a curb-billed fledgling use its dipper to sort of gape its gizzer,
  
• SPEAKER_01: or would a chicklet, in fact, nourish its breastbone during migration, like scrub fowl or something.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Are you just messing with this?
  
• SPEAKER_01: You think?
  
• SPEAKER_01: No, I was just...
  
• SPEAKER_01: No, because, like, since the plover and its eggs are vertebrates, right?
  
• SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
  
• SPEAKER_01: The fluffy shaft expand to form feather pecking like a turkey follicle or something.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Right.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Such as a mandible, or the elongated membrane of the pea fowl, like a crest feather.
  
• SPEAKER_01: on a cockatoo or maybe a rose-breasted cockatiel in the muscular pouch of the gullet there.
  
• SPEAKER_01: And so I noticed the de-beaking of a leghorn roost was sort of like a flapping mallard hatchling
  
• SPEAKER_01: and the lobular barcibles of a scrub fowl on the elongated membrane of a pea fowl or a curve fowl
  
• SPEAKER_01: or a curve-built fledgling.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Well, I think that's fascinating.
  
• SPEAKER_01: I have no response to that, though.
  
• SPEAKER_01: So the dorsal ridge of an insectivore can develop an eggshell, actually, of the incubated chick.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
  
• SPEAKER_01: And pigeon milk contains higher levels than mammalian milk as well.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Those are not so interesting facts.
  
• SPEAKER_00: I think those are not a lot of my head.
  
• SPEAKER_00: But they're all definitely facts.
  
• SPEAKER_00: facts not necessarily related to one another, but interesting.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Oh, absolutely.
  
• SPEAKER_01: That lobular varsible on the scrub fowl is really what got me to put that salt lick out there.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Oh, of course.
  
• SPEAKER_01: And what's been their response to it?
  
• SPEAKER_01: The response has been mixed, and I've attracted actually scorpions and unrelated creatures.
  
• SPEAKER_01: And where are you located?
  
• SPEAKER_01: I'm in Decker's.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Okay. And scorpions and deckers?
  
• SPEAKER_01: Scorpions and Deckers and the honeysuckle has attracted all kinds of other mammalian creatures.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Oh, and I know.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
  
• SPEAKER_01: I notice their quills and their halux also changed the sheets of their plumage.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Sure it does.
  
• SPEAKER_01: Heck yes. I notice that personally.
  
• SPEAKER_01: So can the dorsal ridge of an insectivore develop?
  
• SPEAKER_01: develop an eggshell, like an incubated chick.
  
• SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Maybe one of our callers can answer that question.
  
• SPEAKER_00: One of our listeners.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah, if you have an answer to that, you can give us a call, and we'll help Tucker out.
  
• SPEAKER_00: So thanks for joining us today, Tucker. That was great.
  
• SPEAKER_00: You know, I did not know that we had a lot of scorpions.
  
• SPEAKER_00: We had eight different species of scorpions in Colorado.
  
• SPEAKER_00: There are about 100 species of scorpions in the world.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
  
• SPEAKER_00: We have eight of those in Colorado.
  
• SPEAKER_00: I've never seen a Colorado scorpion.
  
• SPEAKER_00: No, but I'm surprised that it would be at this latitude.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Not elevation necessarily, but the latitude.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
  
• SPEAKER_00: That is fascinating.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Maybe we'll have to develop a scorpion feeder.
  
• SPEAKER_00: I think so.
  
• SPEAKER_00: It's a salt lick, apparently, according to Tucker.
  
• SPEAKER_00: That's right.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Well, we can sell those.
  
• SPEAKER_00: We learn stuff from our callers and from our customers.
  
• SPEAKER_00: We're never too old.
  
• SPEAKER_00: to learn so far.
  
• SPEAKER_00: We can stop reading now.
  
• SPEAKER_00: If you'd like to join us today, tell us about your Colorado Scorpion.
  
• SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.