She walks on water, runs the territory, and leaves dad holding the babies. Hannah + Cleo dive into the Jacana: the Jesus bird of the wetlands who breaks every rule nature supposedly wrote and somehow ended up tied to the oldest conservation treaty in history. And honestly? She's just getting started.

18:18 Jacana conversation starts

Sources:

Wikipedia: Jacanidae
Wikipedia: Northern Jacana
Wikipedia: Ramsar Convention
Wikipedia: Wetland
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San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants: Jacana
https://ebird.org/species/norjac
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A-Z Animals: Jacana
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Kayhan Life — Obituary: Eskandar Firouz
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Colorado Wetland Information Center (CWIC)

The stink bird! Hannah + Cleo finally get out of North America and take on the Hoatzin. The smelly punk rock pheasant of South America that may or may not be a pheasant... Tune in to hear about this and MUCH more.

20:10 Hoatzin conversation starts

Sources:

https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/hoatzi1/cur/introduction

https://www.ourbreathingplanet.com/hoatzin/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=1602607328&gbraid=0AAAAADL0VgAHYIovTdN6qkMJD-vfUiOze&gclid=Cj0KCQjw77bPBhC_ARIsAGAjjV-InO0SQfBrTnO_1vbmGGnlkZuEW_C9f9E8RNPesjLD2jA435JksfwaAqGSEALw_wcB

https://critter.science/the-unusual-and-stinky-hoatzin/

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https://www.livescience.com/animals/birds/hoatzin-the-strange-stinkbird-born-with-clawed-wings-that-appears-to-be-an-evolutionary-orphan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HytWfqWYUQ&t=88s

https://a-z-animals.com/articles/meet-the-hoatzin-the-smelly-bird-with-claws-on-its-wings/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_(anatomy)

Two birds. One marsh. Centuries of hate. Hannah + Cleo break down the red-winged blackbird, the marsh wren, and their extremely heated rivalry while drawing comparisons to Heated Rivalry™️.

19:30 Heated Rivalry Gets Hot

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