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Jeff Hoppes

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birds, British history, buzzers

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Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Today's transit birding is brought to you by: the royalist cause

Chicago transit signs, like lists of royalist grandees, often contain the names "Montrose" and "Clarendon"

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Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

"The Anna's Hummingbird was a regicide." Discuss.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

#OTD in 1943, Italy. These pigeons saw a lot of action. They took part in exchange of information when one of the brigades was cut off from the main body of the British 8 Army two weeks earlier and were also used during commando raids around Messina in Sicily. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

C. V. Wedgwood's "The King's Peace" (1955), but the cover now depicts a King Penguin instead of the Stuart court

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Jeff Hoppes @jeffhoppes.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Exciting find at Goodwill this week! #birds

Bald eagle glares out from the frontispiece of Roger Tory Peterson's "Birds Over America" (1948)

signed: "With my best regards, Roger Tory Peterson"

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