[Ads-l] Another zoological crash blossom

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

The headline for a blog post hosted by the Smithsonian:

"Scientists track a mysterious songbird using tiny backpack locators"

(
https://insider.si.edu/2018/08/scientists-track-a-mysterious-songbird-using-tiny-backpack-locators/
)

This reminded me of a favorite from a few years ago, "Public urged to keep
track of squirrels with mobiles." (See Ben Zimmer's column about this and
other crash blossoms at http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18274.)

-- Bonnie

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