And that’s how the Northern Cardinal got its name
by Kapanash
And that’s how the Northern Cardinal got its name
by Kapanash
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They were right.
I mean… I see it.
🤣🤣🤣
This reminds me of how Little Rock Arkansas got its name. Theres a little rock on the bank of the river. The rock isn’t there anymore but the town is.
Damn that’s crazy
Huh, being the state bird and learning religion I don’t know why I never put it together…
It’s the black soulless stare in the eyes that evokes every monster from a Lovecraft novel that gets me. And that red bird on the left.
I mean, yeah. “Naming animals after what reminds you of their appearance” is pretty common.
There’s a reason the Komodo dragon is called that and not “Giant, Fucking Lizard with Poisonous Saliva.”
Portuguese: “That monkey looks like a friar!”
Capuchin monkeys too
Those same settlers were a bit more off with the American Robin.
I’m doing a Root D&D campaign with my kids and the Bird Magistrate is a Cardinal named Richelieu. They don’t get the reference.
I made him a dark cleric.