L.A. is home to both Hollywood and a passionate birding community — but the two don’t always see eye to eye.

“Birders are always getting annoyed watching movies,” said Marcos Trinidad, senior director of forestry at TreePeople and an avid birder. And that’s because movies so often get bird facts wrong.

“The classic example is how almost always when there is footage of a bald eagle, it’s overlaid with the sound of a red-tailed hawk ,” Trinidad said.

And so it’s not surprising that when the Hallmark Channel announced Adventures in Love & Birding with a poster on Instagram — their new rom-com about a single mother who falls in love with an avid birder — birders went off in the comments.

One user wrote, “I wonder what those two male varied thrushes are talking about 😂.” Another, “I

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