Party Duck Returns From "Spring Migration"

Since Party Duck lives in our suite, he doesn't really need to migrate, but he took this past week's time off to sojourn south to his family's wintering home in Mexico.

While there, he spent a few days pursuing one of his great passions: paleontology. When Party Duck is on his game, he tends to get lucky, and this excursion was no exception. Only a few hours into digging PD unearthed an exceptional specimen, beautifully preserved. His discovery was the party bone of a now extinct species of recreational dinosaur, Dyonychus festivus.* Debate is ongoing within the scientific party-bird community, but some (including PD) believe Dyonychus was an ancient forerunner to modern day party-birds. The phenotypic similarity, in any case, seems promising:

*Dyonychus should not be confused with Deinonychus, a genus of carnivorous dinosaur closely related to the Velociraptor. Dyonychus, rather, was a genus of small, bird-like dinosaur believed to spend most of its time partying. This behavioral speculation is based on paleoecological evidence suggesting the diet of Dyonychus consisted primarily of a mood-altering fern. Inedible to most herbivores, Dyonychus was able to metabolize the fern, but its side-effects are believed to have included impaired psychomotor coordination, muscle relaxation, euphoria, and in some cases shirt removal. Experts refer to the fern colloquially as "giggle weed."