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This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur. Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur. (📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)

A coal-black bird with a bill that covers the whole front of the face.  A long grackle-like boat tail, muscular legs and an alert black eye.  The bird sits on red sand next to water, as if a mud puddle or stream.
CREDIT:  Suzie McCann, eBird, 01 Jun 2019, Santa Clara Ranch, Starr, Texas, United States

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.