The mic blimp is a wind-resistant cover that goes over the boom mic to reduce environmental background noise. It's commonly referred to as adead cat, because it's covered in fuzzy gray hair.

Those colloids which absorb considerable water are hydrophyllic colloids, that is, water-fond colloids; while those which absorb but little or none are hydrophobic colloids, that is, water-fear colloids.

In spite of fishermen’s opinions and complaints, cormorants feed principally on bottom fish of no commercial value, such as rockfish and weedfish.

For instance, taxanornists recognize an eastern yellow-lored and a western white-lored subspecies of the Yellow-throated Warbler.