3 September 2020
Usually “CORVID-19” with an “R” is a typo. This time it’s not.
Crows, ravens and jays are all members of the Corvid (Crow) family. Twenty species occur in the continental U.S. This T-shirt designed by my friend Steve Valasek has nineteen of them. Who’s missing? See below(*).
Steve tweeted this shirt and three related designs with many sizes and colors at Patos Locos Shirts on August 18 but I forgot to order one. This morning I did –> at Patos Locos Shirts. (See Steve’s comment below about availability.)
Does auto-correct change “COVID-19” into “CORVID-19″ for you?
Fine. Let’s make this about crows. 🙂
p.s. The shirt was a collaborative effort. Steve and his birding friend Adam Stein (PhD in ornithology from Syracuse) must have been musing about the disruption of COVID-19 when he came up with this idea. Adam’s wife did the bird art. There’s a story behind the name Patos Locos. Read more here.
(*) Who’s the 20th Corvid who’s not on the shirt? The Tamaulipas Crow (Corvus imparatus). By the way, the northwestern crow was lumped with American crow in June 2020 so it’s no longer a separate species.
(photo by Chuck Tague. T-shirt designed by Steve Valasek is available at Patos Locos Shirts)
p.s. My shirt came! Here’s what it looks like.
Hi Kate, thank you so much. But the shirts will be available as long as people want to keep buying them. The printing company just calls the windows campaigns, thru just wait to print and ship them in batches.
And who’s missing? The Northwestern Crow got lumped, and the Tamaulipas Crow was waiting in the wings.
Love the T-shirts, Steve. Thanks for clarifying the deadline. I’ll fix the text.
What a great way to add a little laughter to these trying times!