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["Bennett, Rebecca L." <Rebecca.Bennett@xxxxxxxx>]

Lighten up.  Life is short.  Birds and humor are beautiful.

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Miller [mailto:millergt3389@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:11 PM
To: catharus_thrush@xxxxxxxxx; va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [va-bird] Re: What happens when I drink too much coffee......


On this listserver we don't permit innocent questions from beginning =
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looking for owls, but do we allow lyrics to songs that are simply meant =
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amuse us and have nothing to do with birds?  What was the point of this? =
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were warned about your sense of humor you say.  Does that mean we're =
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to be subject to it whenever you're inspired?

Glenn Miller
Williamsburg, VA


>From: Richard Roberts <catharus_thrush@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: catharus_thrush@xxxxxxxxx
>To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [va-bird] What happens when I drink too much coffee......
>Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:52:38 -0700 (PDT)
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>Hi ya'll:
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>O.k.  I warned you about my sense of humor....  Well, I originally =
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>this to the Birdband list-serve last year, where it was met with rave=20
>reviews, and I thought ya'll might enjoy it.  Essentially, I just =
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>the lyrics to suit my needs....so enjoy (or curse me, either way.....). =
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>hope that you noticed that I corrected my spelling of ya'll.  I was=20
>informed that there was only one "a" in it.  That's a cheesehead for =
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>guess....
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>I Am the Very Model of a Master-Bander, Personal
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>=A9 2002, Richard L. Smallwood-Roberts, Master-Bander (Personal)
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>Sung to the tune of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" =
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>the musical, HMS Pinafore.
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>I am the very model of a Master-Bander, Personal
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>I capture migrant passerines, with which I'm very versatile
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>I know their very Latin names though short or long or whimsical
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>From Actitis to Zenaida in genus categorical
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>I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical
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>I measure bills from lores to tip with zeal that seems fanatical
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>Or primaries or retrices of which I cannot often choose
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>But cheerfully I measure them and then I measure tarsus too
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>I'm very good at using traps and also of erecting nets
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>I'm faster than all others (but on that I am not taking bets)
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>When capturing the adult birds and even with the juveniles
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>I am the very model of a Master-Bander, Personal
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>I know avian history from the dinosaurs to Sparrow, Fox
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>From lizards to our feathered friends, I find it quite a paradox
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>To think a Black-Capped Chickadee descends from Archaeopteryx
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>Bewilders me and leaves me with a painful headache in the mix
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>I can tell the sex of birds whether in hand or in the trees
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>Of course, I know there's some quite hard so I should say "well =
usually"
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>In fact, I'll say that for some species it can be a dulling chore
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>But in all cases, circumspect, I'd rather do that than be bored
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>Then I take the data and I put it all in written form
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>Recording details, some minute, from age and sex to the wing chord
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>In short no matter what it is from adult birds to juveniles
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>I am the very model of a Master-Bander, Personal
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>In fact I know just what is meant by "nape" and "supercilium"
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>And I can tell apart Flycatchers, Alder and Acadian
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>When dealing with such species the I.D. I am more wary at
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>But I can say precisely I can age a Yellow-breasted Chat
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>When I have learned near everything in modern Ornithology
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>When I know more of plumage than a novice at the IBP*
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>In short when I'm an expert with a Veery's wing morphology
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>You'll say a better Master-Bander, Personal you'll never see
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>For all my avian knowledge, though I'm hyper drinking black coffee
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>Has been expounded on for three decades in the last century
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>But still in matters of I.D. of adult birds and juveniles
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>I am the very model of a Master-Bander, Personal
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>*Institute for Bird Populations
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>Richard L. Smallwood-Roberts, Janesville, WI: M-Bander, Wilson Creek =
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>Station, SBBO Staff: www.wilsoncreekmaps.com
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>"It seemed to me that, somehow, the Blue Jay was trying to communicate =
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>me. I would see him fly into the house across the street, pick up the=20
>telephone, and dial. My phone would ring, and it would be him, but it =
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>just this squawking and cheeping. "What?! What?!" I would yell back, =
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>never did speak English."
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