Actual real-life bird scientist Mikko Jimenez takes a break from his research at CSU's AeroEco Lab to educate the Fanbyte Thinktank on scrub jay deception, digiscoping, bird intelligence, recognizing your spark bird, the difficulties inherent to tracking magpies, the importance of romantic literature to ornithology, easy things you can do at home to help birds, and miraculously, even more.

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