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k patch on the side with a line of speckles to its rear new duck right side given the huge variance in pigmentation of bills among hens which you d have to see for yourself to appreciate the above is enough for me our new hen is vashti but i ll also show the left side for which the photos are not quite as good vashti left side of bill there are not many markings but a few black dots below the nostril new duck left side of bill notice the line of about five dots below the nostril same as above it s vashti who clearlymade her way back to the familiar pond after losing her brood there is ample time for her to nest and incubate her eggs again so i am feeding her a lot to prompt that she s bonded with armon who never left the pond and they are showing bonding and courtship behaviors i am pretty sure she will nest and breed again this would not be the first time we ve had double brooding here when honey stole dorothy s brood getting a batch of 16 to take care of dorothy eventually re nested and produced her own brood which she did rear to fledging here s a classic photo of honey with her mixed brood of 16 half of them ducknapped she was a great mome and all of these ducklings fledged but isn t that evolutionarily maladaptive you ask perhaps unless dorothy and honey were related i have no idea if they were but i think it s simply a case of a maternal instinct that was coopted like humans adopting unrelated babies posted on may 1 2026 may 1 2026 by whyevolutionistrue posted in ducks 14 comments posted at 9 30 am readers wildlife photos may 1 2026 8 15 am well brothers and sisters friends and comrades this is the last batch of photos i have if you re feeling generous and have some good wildlife photos well you know what to do today s lot comes from ephraim heller they are manakins and tanagers from trinidad and tobago ephraim s captions are indented and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them today we have photos of manakins and tanagers that i photographed on my february visit to trinidad and tobago the three manakin species in these photographs all engage in lekking females choose a partner at the lek mate and then depart to build a nest and raise chicks entirely on their own males contribute only sperm this behavior places intense sexual selection pressure on males driving the evolution of exotic plumage acrobatic movements and multi male performances i make no comment on potential parallels in human behavior blue backed manakin chiroxiphia pareola males engage in cooperative lekking two males typically an older dominant individual and a younger subordinate perform a dance in which they jump over each other on a branch the female observes and when she is sufficiently engaged the subordinate male withdraws and the dominant male completes the mating in these photos you see one of the males perched on the lekking branch and then performing the jump jac here s a video showing a related lekking species the blue manakin chiroxiphia caudata and their remarkable courtship dance look at those males lined up each trying to show he s a better jumper than the others each white bearded manakin manacus manacus male clears a small patch of forest floor down to bare earth and maintains one or more bare sticks above it as perches the display involves rapid leaps between these sticks and the ground accompanied by a shockingly loud cracking sound it sounds like someone snapping their fingers right next to your ear it s produced by the wings connecting above the back which is enabled by a limb muscle the scapulohumeralis caudalis that is the fastest skeletal muscle in any vertebrate here you see two white bearded manakins perched on their lekking branches and preparing to jump to the ground jac i also added a video of the white bearded manakin courtship the golden headed manakin ceratopipra erythrocephala male s lek display includes a moonwalk in which it slides backward along a perch sadly i didn t observe the moonwalk in these photos the male has the bright yellow head and you can see a female behind the male in the second photo jac here s a golden headed manakin male courting though i can t really say it s a moonwalk they also pop their wings this gorgeous bay headed tanager tangara gyrola stopped me dead in my tracks it has microstructures in its feathers that scatter light to intensify its hues in addition a hidden layer of white or black feathers beneath the outer plumage acts as a reflective backing boosting the brightness and saturation of the visible colors the palm tanager thraupis palmarum is one of the most common birds in trinidad the second photo is of the nest which was conveniently located in a planter on our hotel s balcony white lined tanager tachyphonus rufus males are glossy black while females are rufous the silver beaked tanager ramphocelus carbo posted on may 1 2026 may 1 2026 by whyevolutionistrue posted in birds photography readers wildlife uncategorized 16 comments posted at 8 15 am prematurely published hili dialogue may 1 2026 7 04 am i accidentally hit publish instead of save when i was preparing today s hili dialogue most of it got done yesterday afternoon so subscribers might have gotten an incomplete email yesterday and none today if you want to read the completed one click on the screenshot below posted on may 1 2026 by whyevolutionistrue posted in website matters website related items leave a comment posted at 7 04 am friday hili dialogue may 1 2026 6 45 am welcome to the lusty month of may it s may 1 2026 and we should all be singing this song from camelot this version of the lusty month of may comes from the stage cast and is sung by julie andrews who unaccountably declined to appear in the movie and was replaced by vanessa redgrave here s the may illustration from the très riches heures du duc de berry illustrating the hôtel de nesle the duke s mansion in paris by limbourg brothers r m n r g ojéda public domain wikimedia commons it s also international workers day may day law day international space day international sauvignon blanc day global love day international tuba day international chocolate parfait day national salad day save the rhino day pesach sheni the second passover and no pants day apparently the british equivalent no trousers day was three months ago and a lot of people rode the tube sans trousers pants in the uk means underpants here s a video a picture of the returned vashti what a sweet hen pictures will follow shortly to address the doubters readers are welcome to mark notable events births or deaths on this day by consulting the april 1 wikipedia page da nooz i don t like redistricting creating new congressional districts and often new seats in the house unless it s based on changes in population size and density there are mathematically sophisticated ways of redistricting that divide up states based purely on population numbers now however it s often done to create ethnic voter equity or to increase one party s seats in congress i don t like either form of gerrymandering and now according to the nyt the democrats are regretting having started the process a decade ago not long ago democrats had dreams of restoring fairness to america s grotesquely gerrymandered political maps their party began a major push for independent commissions to draw congressional districts after president trump and republicans swept into power in 2017 democrats panicked about republicans structural gains after the 2010 census succeeded in enacting such commissions in colorado michigan and virginia while republicans mostly kept politically minded state legislators in charge of drawing maps in red states now democrats are finding that their old good government policies have become bad politics their idealistic push for fairness is it turns out no match for the republicans maximalist redistricting effort the independent commissions that democrats pushed for eight years ago along with ones in washington state and california that predated mr trump s rise have complicated the party s redistricting fight after the supreme court s ruling on wednesday to further weaken the voting rights act a decision likely to lead to a rush of new maps before the 2028 election if not this year blue state democrats are finding themselves regretting that they had sought to give away redistricting power to outside commissions one of the lessons of the trump era is a failure of imagination about how many norms they would break said phil weiser the democratic attorney general of colorado who backed his state s independent redistricting referendum in 2018 and is now supporting a ballot initiative to undo it you could say we should have been thinking ahead we didn t foresee this at mr trump s urging republican lawmakers in the last year have redrawn congressional maps to help their party in texas missouri and north carolina democrats responded in california and virginia by asking voters to undo past referendums that created independent redistricting bodies in both blue states voters agreed then came the events of this week when the supreme court ruling appeared to give republicans new opportunities and florida republicans passed a new map designed to flip four democratic seats i repeat there should be no redistricting except to balance population sizes among congressional districts the republicans started the latest round of violating that principle but now the democrats are catching up it s the tragedy of the commons with the commons being states who knows what effect this will have on the midterms i still think the house will flip to democratic in november but i m not betting on it speaking of which the republican governor of louisiana has suspended upcoming primary elections so the state can undo race based redistricting that was enacted a while ago louisiana gov jeff landry r told republican house candidates wednesday that he plans to suspend next month s primary elections so state lawmakers can pass a new congressional map first according to two people with knowledge of the calls the move follows a supreme court decision earlier in the day that found louisiana had unlawfully discriminated by race when it created a second majority black congressional district under legal pressure a new louisiana map would position republicans to gain one or two seats in the midterms as they fight to hold their narrow majority in the house a spokesperson for landry declined to comment on his plans for the primary but the governor along with louisiana attorney general liz murrill r said in a statement thursday that the supreme court s decision no longer requires the state to hold congressional elections under the current map yesterday s historic supreme court victory for louisiana has an immediate consequence for the state landry and murrill said in the statement we are working together with the legislature and the secretary of state s office to develop a path forward the 6 3 decision limited a key provision of the landmark voting rights act and could lead to black democrats across the south losing their house seats most states are unlikely to be able to redraw districts in time for the november midterm elections but louisiana could be one of the exceptions election officials sent ballots to overseas voters weeks ago it s unclear whether the governor s suspension would apply only to primaries for the six house seats or include other elections including the heated senate primary that pits sen bill cassidy r against rep julia letlow r louisiana has six house seats two of which are held by democrats if landry suspends the house primaries but not other contests primary voters would have to go to here are louisiana s congressional districts which are clearly gerrymandered if you go to the article link above you ll see they match almost exactly the area with a proportion of blacks above 50 apparently the republicans want to dismantle that pronto by twotwofourtysix own work cc by sa 4 0 the democratic governor of maine has dropped out of the upcoming senate race because of lack of funds leaving a progressive democrat to square off against a popular incumbent republican senator in a blue state maine gov janet mills on thursday dropped her bid for the u s senate pointing to a lack of campaign funds to keep up in one of the most competitive races in the country that quickly became a reflection of an internal party debate over which candidates can win in high profile contests the move now thrusts political newcomer graham platner an oyster farmer almost no one knew a year ago as the expected democratic front runner against longtime republican sen susan collins whose seat democrats are targeting in their effort to win control of the closely divided senate while i have the drive and passion commitment and experience and above all else the fight to continue on i very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today the financial resources mills said in a statement that is why today i have made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the united states senate mills a two term governor and longtime maine politician was seen as one of democrats top 2026 recruits when she entered the senate race last year she had the backing of senate minority leader chuck schumer and prominent left leaning advocacy groups hoping to unseat collins in the chamber which has 53 republicans 45 democrats and two independents who caucus with the democrats meanwhile schumer and democratic senatorial campaign committee chair sen kirsten gillibrand both of new york said they would work with platner to defeat collins our north star is winning a democratic senate majority and over the past year senate democrats have carved out multiple paths to do that their statement said platner has a checkered past and although he s running as a progressive his past stands and remarks hardly align with that label in one way they do though he s repeatedly called israel s defense against hamas a genocide and according to grok with references he has called for an immediate and total cutoff of u s military aid to israel and framed the u s israel relationship as morally compromised these positions are central to his campaign messaging meh this is the kind of person who s a lodestar for the democrats and a hamas for the jews this is not a case of trans identified men competing with women in a race but cis males swapping places with women in a south african marathon i don t know how the ruse wasn t discovered at the finish line save that it was likely a mixed sex race two male runners who were discovered fraudulently competing on behalf of female colleagues in a top south african marathon have been disqualified and could face two year bans from the event along with the two women the two women runners swapped their bibs with the two men who both finished within the top 10 in the women s half marathon at the two oceans marathon in cape town last sunday i...