Discussion of birding primarily in North America
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What I see when I paste in the post submission box (left) versus what I see on the forum after I post (right):Lonestranger wrote: Thu Mar 19, 2026 7:51 am I have been wondering for a while now about the colours of our result postings. When I copy and paste my results, there are white eggs, yellow feathers, and blue birds, but when I submit my post, the colours change to biege eggs, brown feathers, and red birds. Why does the graphic change? Is it by choice or is there a glitch in the software?
So why the colour changes?
I know nothing about the programming that goes into making these games and message boards work the way they do, but I have a pretty good imagination for how things might work. I'm now wondering if the colour change might be programmed into the Copy Stats function of the game to ensure the results don't blend into the various background colours that they may be pasted into. Is it possible the game shares the results in different colours based on background colours? I can only imagine that as one possibility. I imagine it would be rather tricky to do, if it's even possible, but I have a pretty good imagination.
A generic bird. Variously depicted as a blue or red bird, as a bluebird or cardinal, shown standing in full profile, or as a bird head. Both designs show the bird facing left.
May be used for a variety of wild and pet birds as well as for metaphorical senses of bird (e.g., birdie in golf).
Apple and WhatsApp’s designs feature a grayish bird head. Google, Samsung, and Facebook’s designs suggest a bluebird, Microsoft and Twitter’s a cardinal. Google’s bird previously resembled a canary, Samsung’s was previously green, and Microsoft and Twitter’s birds were once blue.
Bird was approved a part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.