Years after the official decree, it's a question that keeps at least one birdbrain up at night.
still hear talk going on about the “stolen American election.” Because it really distracts from the stolen electionI don’t need to tell you that Anna’s hummingbird is the reigning champ. Everyone stops and salutes when we spot her in the garden, and, if you have children, they’re pledging allegiance to her in school. But it still ruffles my feather that she swept the final, permanent City Bird election and will now hold this prestigious position for the rest of time.
In some countries, that is considered a dictatorship. But it’s not even the affront to democracy that necessarily bugs me: it’s that the rightful winner, the crow, was rudely disqualified from the 2017 race and now will never have the chance to fly to Official City Bird heights. Look, I’m not saying that Anna’s hummingbird is doing a bad job with her official duties. In her role as an ambassador spokesbird, she’s been tasked with “building awareness of birds” and “inspiring artists,” and if the number of stained-glass hummingbird windchimes available for sale during the annual Eastside Culture Crawl is any indication, she’s crushing it. But she’s just not a bird of the people the way the crow is.
Other stipulations: nominees couldn’t be an official bird elsewhere, nor commonly found in areas outside the Pacific Northwest. Any birds that were viewed negatively by cultural groups would be disqualified as well . As a result, it was a four-party race in ’17: the iridescent Anna’s hummingbird, the varied thrush, the northern flicker and the spotted towhee. If the pigeons or seagulls ran as independents, they certainly didn’t get invited to the televised debates.
Unsurprisingly, Anna’s hummingbird swept the election, taking nearly half of the vote. That’s pretty privilege, for you. But while she rules with an iron wing, we in the #TeamCrow camp will continue to cause a flap for the issues that matter—cawing loud, cawing proud and making our mark where it counts (the sidewalk in front of the
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