The local D.C. Audubon chapter plans to ditch the name “Audubon,” even as the National Audubon Society voted to keep it.

A rare bird was spotted in the reflecting pool on the National Mall this weekend.

TUESDAY Got someone in your life who neatly fits within the Young Adult demographic? They’d be pleased as punch to meet China Mieville, whose new fantasy novel, Un Lun Dun, reads like a Pan’s Labyrinth without all the blood-spatter and heavy overtones of European fascism. And, yeah, you grown-ups will probably dig it as well. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY There was a time when “hooking up” really meant something….

Chris Palmer doesn’t fit the stand-up comic profile at all. Wildlife documentarian. Harvard Kennedy Scholar. Founder, President and CEO of the non-profit National Audubon Society Productions. AU Film Producer in Residence. And he won’t look the part either — perfectly-coiffed and suited for every performance, as demonstrated at right, with the proper Brit accent to match. It all started in January, when his daughter Kimberly showed him a flyer on stand-up comedy training at the…