Wrong again!

I stand corrected.

Crop.

On Tuesday of this week I mused,

“the burnt offering of birds necessitates chopping off the ‘crop’ (head feathers according to me).”

Well, I was wrong.

Growing up in Massachusetts, I often heard, “he’s got quite a crop of hair.”

So, I transferred that to my questionable Bible knowledge

and assumed that the crop of the turtledoves and pigeons

that were sometimes killed as Levitical sacrifices,

was the feathers on their head.

Wrong wrong wrong.

Someone set me straight.

A friend sent a reply giving me the correct definition of “crop.”

My friend’s name—I kid you not—is Robin.

Obviously, a person named Robin is going to know a whole lot more about birds

than a person named Marcos.

Robin sent this:

“A bird’s crop is a stretchy, muscular pouch in the esophagus (throat)

that temporarily stores food,

allowing birds to eat large amounts quickly and digest it later…

with some species like pigeons producing nutritious ‘crop milk’ for their young from it.”

The things a person learns we he has smart friends!