👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully perplexing little thing called, frankly…
ehv 145
. Frankly, nobody outside a very specific, slightly paranoid subsection of early-to-mid 20th century American ornithologists actually knows what it definitively is. It just... exists as a notation in a truly massive, largely disregarded file labelled:’The Davies Expedition – Anomalies & Obsolete Nomenclature.’
Basically, here's what we think we know (and I stress, this is mostly educated guesswork seasoned with bewildered shrug syndrome.) Ehv 145 is essentially the documented sighting of… absolutely nothing. It was apparently a designation given by the Davies Expedition during a desperate attempt to catalogue every unusual avian specimen discovered during a disastrous ornithological survey in the remote, frankly miserable, Spruce Knob Range of West Virginia. Here's the breakdown: Ehv? Short for, we suspect, an antiquated and entirely made-up acronym that stood for, let’s just say… Exceptionally Vague . Davies himself was a man who believed he could accurately describe a blue jay with only three syllables of his name. The footnote to the original document reads: "Davies suspected it might actually be the sound of the local badger if you squinted and held your bunghi at precisely 108 degrees, but that is neither here nor there." 145? It was the 14
