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This isn't based on any serious study, but rather casual observation. I've noticed that herons, egrets and bitterns are widely distributed throughout the world. These types of birds are very similar looking. Here are two specific examples of what I am describing:
Pacific Reef Heron from Figi
Little Blue Heron from North America
How can we explain the wide dispersion of these very similar birds?
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Herons, Egrets and Bitterns oh my!
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Post #2Hmm, that's a tough one, maybe its something to do with their ability to fly?Tcg wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 10:57 am .
This isn't based on any serious study, but rather casual observation. I've noticed that herons, egrets and bitterns are widely distributed throughout the world. These types of birds are very similar looking. Here are two specific examples of what I am describing:
Pacific Reef Heron from Figi
Little Blue Heron from North America
How can we explain the wide dispersion of these very similar birds?
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Post #3I'm no ornithologist, but I doubt a Little Blue Heron flew from North America to Fiji. It's got to be a bit more complex than your simplistic reply.Inquirer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:23 amHmm, that's a tough one, maybe its something to do with their ability to fly?Tcg wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 10:57 am .
This isn't based on any serious study, but rather casual observation. I've noticed that herons, egrets and bitterns are widely distributed throughout the world. These types of birds are very similar looking. Here are two specific examples of what I am describing:
Pacific Reef Heron from Figi
Little Blue Heron from North America
How can we explain the wide dispersion of these very similar birds?
Tcg
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Post #4Or to YEC's....are they all within the same "kind", or all different "kinds"? And how do you tell?
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Post #5Simplistic?Tcg wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 12:16 pmI'm no ornithologist, but I doubt a Little Blue Heron flew from North America to Fiji. It's got to be a bit more complex than your simplistic reply.Inquirer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:23 amHmm, that's a tough one, maybe its something to do with their ability to fly?Tcg wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 10:57 am .
This isn't based on any serious study, but rather casual observation. I've noticed that herons, egrets and bitterns are widely distributed throughout the world. These types of birds are very similar looking. Here are two specific examples of what I am describing:
Pacific Reef Heron from Figi
Little Blue Heron from North America
How can we explain the wide dispersion of these very similar birds?
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Though the bird is about as lost as it could possibly be, it's not uncommon for birds to become vagrant. Vagrancy occurs when a bird veers off course, possibly due to a navigation error, or it may have been blown off course by extreme weather patterns. Vagrancy may also help migratory birds expand ranges, an advantage to their survival as global warming changes suitable habitats for many species, per the New York Times. Vagrancy is rather normal—there are even records of albatrosses spending decades oustide their native range.
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Post #6Convergent evolution's fascinating. It's amazing. Crabs. Six times. In the future we'll all be crabs.Tcg wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 10:57 am .
This isn't based on any serious study, but rather casual observation. I've noticed that herons, egrets and bitterns are widely distributed throughout the world. These types of birds are very similar looking. Here are two specific examples of what I am describing:
Pacific Reef Heron from Figi
Little Blue Heron from North America
How can we explain the wide dispersion of these very similar birds?
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Post #7If they're kinda similar, well there we go.
The giraffe, G. camelopardalis is in the same Kind as leopards.
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Post #9OMG it's a thing.
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Post #10I look forward to that. Then I'll be the one pinching the feet of folks bobbing up and down in the ocean rather than the one who has to tread water for 2 days worried that if I put my feet down some critter's gonna gnaw on them... again.JoeyKnothead wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 5:37 pm
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