05-14-2022, 09:00 AM
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#141
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Results will be announced today.
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Forget game 7’s, when!?
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05-14-2022, 09:29 AM
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#142
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Winebar Kensington
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Worst Local Birds
1. House Sparrows
2. Black-billed Magpies
3. Rock Pigeons
4. European Starlings
5. Canada Geese
Last edited by troutman; 05-14-2022 at 09:32 AM.
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05-14-2022, 09:39 AM
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#143
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Cape Breton Island
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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Forget games 7, when!?
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05-14-2022, 02:00 PM
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#145
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary
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More than 36,000 people voted and the Black-capped Chickadee has won the honour of being named Calgary’s official bird.
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Rigged 
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05-14-2022, 02:08 PM
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#146
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Nothing more Calgary than a chickadee…
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The black-capped chickadee is the state bird of Maine and Massachusetts and the provincial bird of New Brunswick. In 2014, the black-capped chickadee was named the official bird of Vancouver for 2015. The bird is prominently featured on the standard Maine license plate, as well as welcome signs on major roadways in Massachusetts.
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05-14-2022, 02:36 PM
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#148
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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"Calgary - A Great Place for Birds"
It's a weird slogan, it should have said "Calgary - We've got Great Tits".
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GO FLAMES GO.
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05-14-2022, 02:41 PM
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#149
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First Line Centre
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No no, great tits aren't native to the Americas.
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05-14-2022, 03:04 PM
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#150
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Lifetime Suspension
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Maybe not but I still enjoy them.
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05-14-2022, 03:43 PM
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#151
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: not lurking
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Random bird talk: Saw a Cooper's Hawk in Sunnyside today hunting sparrows; it let me get quite close up, like 15 feet or so. It had found a bush full of sparrows it had cornered and would spend a couple minutes watching the bush, then dive in to try and make a kill, then hop back out again. Pretty cool to see it up close, and I've got no problem with its efforts to thin out the european sparrow population.
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05-14-2022, 04:03 PM
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#152
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Calgary
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Is that the one I voted for? I was pretty much on team anyone-but-magpie, so this works for me!!
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05-14-2022, 04:15 PM
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#153
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Originally Posted by zamler
Maybe not but I still enjoy them.
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Of course you do. Everybody does. They’re adorable, have a great call, and a great name.
To tolerate magpies takes a tough people.
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05-14-2022, 04:45 PM
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#154
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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The most boring choice won. Typical Calgary. Enjoy your cute, dumb little bird.
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05-14-2022, 06:18 PM
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#155
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Lifetime Suspension
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Calgary has the grace of a swan, the wisdom of an owl, and the pecking order of a chickadee.. ladies and gentlemen this city is for the birds!!
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05-14-2022, 06:34 PM
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#156
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: the middle
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#NotMyOfficialBird
Whatever the results of the poll we all know the bird Calgarians deserve. Deny it all you want, but if you look deep into your heart you know it to be true!
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05-15-2022, 12:08 AM
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#157
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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Originally Posted by timun
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That’s what I love about the phrasing. Are they Great Tits or great Tits?
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GO FLAMES GO.
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05-15-2022, 03:19 PM
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#158
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First Line Centre
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No capitals, just "great tits". E.g. we don't write Black Bears, but rather black bears.
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05-15-2022, 03:22 PM
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#159
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damn onions
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Birds aren’t real.
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05-15-2022, 04:09 PM
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#160
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Cape Breton Island
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speaking of great tits, this really had me chuckling
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