SPEAKER_01: (Radio Announcer) 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 Menough.

SPEAKER_00: (Host 1) Well Good Afternoon, and welcome to Bird Talk.

SPEAKER_00: Thank you.

SPEAKER_00: (Host 1) You are listening to the backyard bird feeding specialists, Scott and David, with Bird Talk.

SPEAKER_00: And, uh, we’re going to go to the phones, and talk with Tucker today.

SPEAKER_00: Hello, Tucker.

SPEAKER_00: (LPC) Well, Good Hello.

SPEAKER_01: I got these sucklings from Kathmandu, actually.

SPEAKER_01: (LPC) So, I put in a salt lick, and some honeysuckle, and I noticed that the quills of the hatchlings

SPEAKER_01: changed the sheath of their plumage. Just like grouses and their nestlings.

SPEAKER_01: (LPC) So, can a curved billed fledgling use its dipper to sort of gape its gizzard?

SPEAKER_01: or would a chicklet, in fact, nourish its breastbone during migration, like scrub fowl or something.

SPEAKER_01: (Host) Are you just messing with us?

SPEAKER_01: You think?

SPEAKER_01: No, I was just...

SPEAKER_01: (LPC) No, because like, since the plover and its eggs are vertebrates, right?

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: (LPC) The fluffy shaft expand to form feather pecking, like a turkey follicle, or something.

SPEAKER_01: Right.

SPEAKER_01: (LPC) Uh, such as a mandible. Or is the elongated membrane of the peafowl, like a crest feather, uh,

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: (Host 1) Well, I think that’s fascinating.

SPEAKER_01: I have no response to that, though.

SPEAKER_01: (LPC) So, the dorsal ridge of an insectivore, can develop an egg shell, actually, of the incubated chick.

SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01: (LPC) 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: Not, uh, necessarily related to one another, but interesting.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01: That lobular barcibal, on the scrubfowl… (Host) Uh-huh. (LPC) 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: (LPC) 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: (Host) Okay. And scorpions in Deckers.

SPEAKER_01: (LPC) Scorpions in Deckers. And the honeysuckle has attracted all kinds of other mammalian creatures.

SPEAKER_01: Oh, and I know.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: (LPC) And I noticed their quills, and their howlicks, also changed the sheath of their plumage.

SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01: Sure it does.

SPEAKER_01: (Host 2) Heck yes, I noticed that personally.

SPEAKER_01: (LPC) So, can the dorsal ridge of an insectivore

SPEAKER_01: develop an egg shell, like an incubated chick?

SPEAKER_00: I don't know.

SPEAKER_00: Maybe one of our callers can, uh, can answer that question.

SPEAKER_00: One of our listeners.

SPEAKER_00: (Host 2) Yeah. If you have an answer to that, you can give us a call, and, and, we’ll help Tucker out. Uh,

SPEAKER_00: so uh, 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 have eight different species of scorpions in Colorado.

SPEAKER_00: There are about a hundred 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: (Host 1) No, but, I, I, I’m surprised that it would be at this latitude. Not,

SPEAKER_00: not the 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: 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: (Host 1) We can stop reading now.

SPEAKER_00: (Host 2) If you’d like to join us today, tell us about your Colorado scorpion.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.