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This week, a mourning dove has started to build a nest in the walnut tree outside my office window. I see it flying back and forth with twigs in its beak, perching on a piece of webbing, waiting for the right moment to swoop in.

Why is a mourning dove building a nest in August? I’m not sure. I think I once interviewed a researcher who said that mourning doves are “dumb as rocks”–but I can’t remember when, or who.

But it did remind me of a post I wrote in 2016, which was the...