A bird is merely a bird until it is spotted outside its natural range. Then it becomes a sign to be decoded. A photograph taken in Brazil of a red-winged blackbird, which is native to North and Central America, was recently posted on an online forum, leading to much speculation among scientists about what its unusual presence could possibly mean. Was it a vagrant, blown off course by some miscalculation of its internal GPS? Or an indicator of how greater........

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