Headline: Vermont’s Oldest Loon Dies…” My first thought is that the perennial primary victim of DNC hijinks, Senator Bernie Sanders, had shuffled off his mortal coil. Nope. He’s still kicking. They are talking about a different old bird.
And not bird, in the English sense, and having written that, I’m wondering if you can still call a woman a bird in the UK, and after another thought, if you can, do you have to apply that slang equally to transwomen or you’re a bigot. And who is in charge of policing it?
Sorry for derailing the train of thought. Yes, the old bird was a Loon.
Last Tuesday, Newark Pond Male, as Hanson refers to the loon, was found to have died recently at an estimated age of 31. He was the oldest documented loon in Vermont. It’s possible he could be even older, as that age is based on the assumption that the loon was 6 years old and in his first year of nesting during that first encounter, Hanson said.
Perhaps the old Loon identified as a much younger Loon, in which case the point is moot.
If you are interested, this link has all sorts of exciting things about banding Loons (the bird, not the Sanders).
If you’d like to read some of our thoughts, reporting, or observations about that loon, Bernie Sanders, you can do that here.
