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BY\u00a0KIERAN LINDSEY, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Happiness is a shy little bird. Hiding from sight in life\u2019s nooks and crannies, impossible to find if you look but then it darts out and lands on your shoulder just when you least expect it. It sidles up beside you like a pickpocket on a crowded street, soft and silent as wings brushing against your lapel. Hardly even noticed until something or someone causes it to flush in a flurry of feathers from beneath your jacket, taking with it a sizeable chunk of your heart. Try to grab hold as it flies away and the thief proves as elusive as dreams upon waking, slipping through your fingers like a shadow, like quicksilver.<\/h4>\n

The concept of happiness has been flitting in and out of my brain and my life for the past couple of months. This train of thought may have be set in motion by my birthday in early April, although it wasn\u2019t a major milestone year, birthday-wise. America was still mostly locked down due to Covid-19 and I had too much on my plate at the time to leave much room for cake. As such, for the second year in a row there wasn\u2019t any kind of celebratory gathering but I did take a little time to acknowledge the day and do some thinking.\u00a0 New Year\u2019s Day may be the culturally accepted time to contemplate one\u2019s short- or long-term past and make plans for the year to come but I\u2019m not much for following the crowd.\u00a0 Besides, I\u2019m a biologist so for me the vernal equinox is the start of a new trip around sun and a reason to reflect.<\/h4>\n

Then again, maybe I\u2019ve had happiness on my mind because the bluebirds have returned.<\/h4>\n

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I\u2019ve been noticing Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis<\/em>) as my terrier-boy and I orbit Lafayette Park on our morning walks. At other times in my life, while living in other parts of the U.S., I\u2019ve watched spring come to town on the wings of both Western (S. Mexican) <\/em>and mountain bluebirds (S. currucoides<\/em>).\u00a0 These feathered\u00a0 pieces of sky that flash across the landscape with shallow wing beats never fail to lighten my mood and, at times, have even lifted my heart when it was heavy with grief.<\/h4>\n

Members of the Turdidae family (aka thrushes), Bluebirds are related to that other famous spring harbinger, the American robin<\/a> (Turdus migratorius<\/em>). All three Sialia<\/em> species are easy to spot and identify even though, as fruit and insect eaters, they\u2019re infrequent visitors to seed-filled feeders (but they will partake of suet). The males are clad in some combination of vivid blue with red and\/or white, and their mates wear less conspicuous versions of the same plumage.<\/h4>\n

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Efforts to ensure this popular bird\u2019s continued breeding success began with the recognition that they were struggling in the face of competition from introduced species such as the European starling<\/a> (Sturnus vulgaris<\/em>) and house sparrow<\/a> (Passer domesticus<\/em>), as well as reduced access to nesting habitat. By building, installing, monitoring, and maintaining special nest boxes, handy men, women, and children across the U.S. have been crucial to the species\u2019 recovery.<\/h4>\n

Bluebirds have long symbolized cheerfulness, health, prosperity, and renewal, although I\u2019m not sure why. Their lives are far from easy or free of conflict. Males battle over breeding territories, chasing one another at breakneck speeds, grabbing each other by the feet in mid-air, smacking opponents with their wings as they try to pull each others feathers out with their beaks. They must defend nest cavities or boxes from a host of other birds, many of which are substantially larger. Once a nest site has been established, a mated pair may produce 2-4 broods per season\u2014a task that requires foraging non-stop during daylight hours to find enough food to keep themselves and their offspring fed. If that were not challenge enough, Bluebirds undertake an exhausting and hazardous migration of up to 2,000 miles each autumn and spring.<\/h4>\n

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Despite these hardships, some sources claim the connection between azure-hued avians and happiness is global, albeit focused on bird species indigenous to each country or continent. One thing is certain\u2014the notion, however it began, has been perpetuated in song and film. I have to wonder if any other bird has been as popular with songwriters and singers, starting with\u00a0 Bluebird of Happiness<\/em><\/a>, a hit song in the early 1930s that may have ushered this phrase into the popular vernacular.\u00a0 Judy Garland probably helped things along when she sang of Bluebirds flying Somewhere Over the Rainbow<\/em><\/a>. For those who like both their birds and their grass blue, there\u2019s Lester Flatt\u2019s Bluebirds Singing For Me<\/em><\/a>. Paul McCartney, Buffalo Springfield, Bonnie Raitt and, more recently Christina Perri and Adam Green all feature Bluebirds on their playlist. Sara Bareilles\u2019 poignant Bluebird<\/a><\/em> tells of a different kind of migration, but my own favorite Bluebird tune, Birdhouse in Your Soul<\/em><\/a> by They Might Be Giants, transports me to a happy scene, sitting at the kitchen table with my significant other in a lake house in remote northern Maine.<\/h4>\n

Emotions can be tricky to articulate and color can help paint a clearer picture. I get that. If a friend says she\u2019s in the pink or he\u2019s green with envy, you know the score even without the details (although you may still want to hear them). Red is, of course, the color of both anger and passion (perhaps those emotions have more in common than we might like to admit), and blue equals happiness\u2014at least, that\u2019s what a little bird told me.<\/h4>\n

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But does it? If I say I\u2019m feeling blue you\u2019re not likely to picture me in your mind\u2019s eye singing in the rain a la<\/em> Gene Kelly.<\/h4>\n

How did a single color come to represent both sides of the spectrum, sadness and joy? I wish I knew, but I\u2019m not sure it matters in the long run. I do know this: happiness prefers an open palm to an iron grip. It doesn\u2019t do well when caged. Like a wild bird, happiness needs to be free to come and go as it chooses. A full life requires both<\/em> kinds of blue plus the full spectrum of other colors, and creatures. Winter and<\/em> spring. Parting and<\/em> reunion. If you want to have happiness in your life you must be willing to risk losing it, trusting that it will return as surely as Bluebirds in spring.<\/h4>\n

That\u2019s the trade-off, the price you pay for the flutter of wings in your heart and stomach.<\/h4>\n

But worth every penny.<\/h4>\n

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\u00a9 2012 Next-Door Nature\u2014no reprints without written permission from the author (I\u2019d love for you to share my work; all you have to do is ask). Thanks to these photographers for making their work available through a Creative Commons license:\u00a0 Vicki DeLoach<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0 Jason Matthews<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0 611catbirds, too<\/span><\/a>, Mike Smith<\/span><\/a>, Alan Sandercock<\/span><\/a>, and Jeff Flinn<\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/h4>\n

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BY KIERAN LINDSEY, PhD<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we\u2019re twenty years into the Information Age so I\u2019m pretty sure everyone in this courtroom knows that, to quote a famous New Yorker <\/em>cartoon, \u201cOn the Internet, nobody knows you\u2019re a dog.\u201d The anonymity baked into the the interwebs means we\u2019re all free to be whatever, or whomever, we want to virtually be\u2026 even if we want to be someone else.<\/h4>\n

Identity theft may seem like a new and viral meme, but I assure you, creating a counterfeit profile is a prehistoric trope. It\u2019s older than Dick Whitman snagging Don Draper\u2019s dog tag in Mad Men (2007).  Older than Mrs. Doubtfire\u2019s dad-turned-nanny (1993). Older than the King of Ruritania\u2019s body-double in The Prisoner of Zenda (1894). Older, even, than the sibling-switch of Esau and Jacob in the Book of Genesis (6th century BC).<\/h4>\n

No, we need to travel even further back in time\u2014way, way back\u2014to the Pennsylvanian epoch over 300 million years ago, and what must surely be the first, the most diabolically devious, the most indelible stolen guise in the entire history of Planet Earth.<\/h4>\n

I intend to demonstrate, beyond any doubt (reasonable or otherwise), that the defendant\u2014Armadillidium vulgare<\/em>, aka \u201cpillbug\u201d\u2014is an imposter!<\/h4>\n
\"\"You already know he\u2019s a shape-shifter. Thanks to a body composed of overlapping plates he\u2019s a skilled conglobator\u2014transforming at a moment\u2019s notice from a scurrying, nearly two-dimensional, thumbnail-sized oval into an almost perfectly symmetrical 3D sphere. This is no parlor game, folks.  Crumpling to the size of a baby aspirin is a prescription for prevention of detection by those who would expose his true nature. (It also limits dehydration, but I digress).<\/div>\n
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Don\u2019t be fooled by this roly-poly fellow\u2019s non-threatening demeanor and diminutive stature. His rap sheet is a phone directory\u2019s worth of aliases: pillbug, wood bug, pea bug, potato bug, and doodlebug, to name only a few\u2026 but he is NOT a bug.<\/div>\n

That\u2019s right, this armored charlatan may claim to be kin to bedbugs, ladybugs, mealybugs, spittle bugs, stinkbugs, and other insects whose identities he has appropriated, but take a closer look and even without a DNA analysis the evidence is indisputable.<\/h4>\n

Exhibit #1:<\/strong>  Insects have a single pair of antennae. If the defendant would untuck enough to show his face to members of the jury, you would see that he has not one, but TWO pair of antennae.<\/h4>\n

Exhibit #2:<\/strong>  Insects have 3 pairs of jointed legs, clustered on the thorax. The defendant has 7 pairs of jointed legs\u2014one pair for each of the 7 segments that constitute his torso. But don\u2019t take my word for it\u2014count them yourselves.<\/h4>\n

\"\"Exhibit #3:<\/strong> As adults, insects breathe using a system of apertures and tubes called spiracles and tracheae, respectively. The defendant\u2014who, while not aquatic is clearly in some legal hot water here\u2014breathes using gill-like structures.<\/h4>\n

Exhibit #4: <\/strong> True bugs have piercing and sucking mouth-parts that place them in an insect league of their own. The defendant has no such anatomical features.  Just look\u2014he\u2019s not even able to use a straw!<\/h4>\n

Exhibit  #5:<\/strong>  Speaking of drinking\u2026 insect have a waxy, water-resistant epicuticle that deters desiccation. The defendant does not, which leads me to wonder if his repeated requests for a glass of water are due to the dry air in this courtroom, or a case of nerves born of a guilty conscience?<\/h4>\n

Exhibit #6:<\/strong> No courtroom drama would be complete without a reference to sex so let\u2019s talk about reproduction. Insects employ a diverse set of parenting strategies, including: oviparity<\/em> (eggs are deposited and develop outside the female\u2019s body); ovoviparity<\/em> (eggs develop inside the female\u2019s body and hatch immediately after being laid); and even viviparity<\/em> (young gestate inside the female and are born, not hatched). But the one strategy insects do NOT use is the marsupium<\/em>. That\u2019s right, a pouch tucked under the thorax in which newly hatched young develop until they are old enough to venture out into the world on their own\u2026 a pouch just like the one you would find on the defendant\u2019s own mother!<\/h4>\n

Members of the jury, the facts speak for themselves. The phony before you is not a bug. He has far more in common with a shrimp, a crab, or a lobster than any insect. Literally. Because this common pillbug is, in reality\u2026<\/h4>\n

\u2026a terrestrial CRUSTACEAN!!<\/em><\/h4>\n

[Audible gasps from the courtroom audience]<\/em><\/h4>\n

Your Honor, the prosecution rests.<\/h4>\n
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