For those of us who aren’t great with binoculars or whose eyes don’t pick up on subtle details, Cooper’s and sharp-shins look practically identical. And big changes now are coming to bird identities.

For those of you who slept through the week dedicated to poetry in high school, a sonnet is a spare fourteen lines—not long enough to reach the right-hand margin of the page.

Altogether it’s clear more than half of participating Illinoisans are voting outside conventional Election Day precinct polling places.