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bonestructure posted:I occasionally see them when I'm out kayaking. They can imitate a cattail so well that you can pass right by them and never realize it unless they twitch. The noises they make are cool, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz1wYb7S728
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Moon Potato posted:Their call is great. Instead of using vocal cords, they inflate their esophagus, click their beak and pump their neck to make a sound like a broken plumbing fixture. That is an extraordinarily accurate description of the sound that bird makes.
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Pookah posted:This is my favourite bird.    
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Moon Potato posted:The Swallow-tailed Kite has a forked tail, too: I'm curious, what shape is a bittern, exactly?
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Stalin McHauntler posted:I'm curious, what shape is a bittern, exactly? It is a tube.
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My bird feeder's squirrel defense system: The only critter, bird or rodent, they take poo poo from at my feeder are the woodpeckers. It's a very established hierarchy at the feeder that I've observed. Red-bellied woodpeckers > blue jays > grey catbirds > boat-tailed grackles > tufted titmice > common grackles > cardinals > miscellaneous sparrows and other tiny birds. Honorable mention to the bobwhites. I startle little flocks of them most evenings on my way out of work. 
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:He sure does! And they sure are  Here's an article about it: http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/06/30/clubs-spurs-spikes-and-claws/ quote:In fact, digit I claws are generally present in ratites, gamebirds, waterfowl, divers, storks and kin, finfoots, owls, New World vutures, the Secretary bird Sagittarius serpentarius, waders and many others... Digit II claws are rarer but are present in some neornithines (like some ratites, juvenile waterfowl and flamingos), so might also be primitive for the clade. It’s sometimes said that cassowaries have a particularly large claw on digit II that they use as a weapon Can one of you Australians please go test out the cassowary thing, I'd like to get an answer on that. TIA.
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Another kayaking favorite, the purple gallinule. You'll see them hanging out in beds of water lilies, because they have such long, spidery toes that they can walk across the pads without sinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I_d2W6AbvI Big feets are also good for fighting  You sometimes see them motoring along the surface propelling themselves with their wings, with the big feet popped out of the water and held in front of them to lessen drag. The juveniles are especially adorable.   The lighter spot on the forehead of the adults isn't feathers, but a bony plate similar to that of the New Zealand takahe. Another dinosaur holdover.
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So dignified
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Stalin McHauntler posted:I'm curious, what shape is a bittern, exactly? They are all shapes at once, but our mortal minds can only process one form at a time. If you pierce their avian vessel, it basically turns into the last half hour of Akira.
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New Zealand birds best birds! The majestic tui. It makes lots of noises, but it's favorite seems to be *HONK HONK tweet tweet*.  The adorable fantail. Makes noises like a squeaky toy and isn't afraid to get in your face if you're invading its territory.  The super-cool kokako. It runs through the treetops like a squirrel on its long legs, and has a flute-like song. Plus, NZ also has kiwi, penguins, parrots ... it really is awesome 
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Your post is missing Keas A shameful oversight
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Sadly I haven't been to the South Island yet to get my car destroyed by keas. One did try to steal my bag at the zoo, though: Give that back kea, it doesn't even have food in it!
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lord funk posted:Yeah after all the crazy parrots and Bower birds, the Chickadee is the best. I like to watch them feed. They have a social hierarchy, so if a younger one starts to get a seed and an older one shows up, they back off and wait for the older one before flying in to get their own. Plus I think they can have like 200 hiding spots for their seeds. ha i didnt know that, that's cool. come to think of it i dont know much about them other than they are super cute. we just got our first house this year so im gonna try and get some seeds they like for the bird feeder in the spring. BURDS!
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A bunch of my favourites are already in here so have some waxeyes: 
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Derp birb best birb.  
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Tendai posted:Derp birb best birb. reminds me of http://vani-lla.tumblr.com/  She can get her birb to wear elaborate little samurai outfits and pose for pictures, I can't even get mine to hold still while I'm clipping his nails bonestructure fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Dec 18, 2014 |
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bonestructure posted:reminds me of http://vani-lla.tumblr.com/  Now I finally know where bee bird came from! 
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Tendai posted:Derp birb best birb. 
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I was unprepared for how hard this picture made me laugh.
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Some kind of bird internet?
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This thread needs more Mindo.
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ApathyGirl posted:This thread needs more Mindo. Okay   
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Best birb consumes all other birbs and gains their powers.
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I was dubious of that gif so I went and found the source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JdkTUGU2YY&t=32s
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Yeah pelicans will eat anything. There's a gif of ac stork eating a bunny somewhere out there too
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I once saw a seagull eat a sparrow at the beach.
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Seagulls are basically the rats of the sky, so it's not that surprising.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Seagulls are basically the rats of the sky, so it's not that surprising. There's a pair of hawks that live next to my apartment complex. I fistpump every time one grabs a starling or grackle.
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My coworkers know I am a crazy bird lady so one of them found me when something happened outside his window. We're on the second floor and he came and got me into his office very quickly. I guess he'd been working when a hummingbird bonked into his window. It landed on the outside window ledge just feet from him and was recovering from the trauma when a crow swooped in, grabbed him, flew to a nearby branch and began ripping him to shreds and eating him. We watched as the crow pulled off pieces and swallowed them, finishing with the tiny little skull. I used to have a Peregrine Falcon in my education program. Telling people that her primary diet was other birds always got responses like "Oh, so she's a cannibal!" (chuckling at their own joke) and I would explain that, no, in fact she did not eat other Peregrine Falcons. She ate other species of birds. Like how we eat other mammals... cows, pigs, and monkeys... :P
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People must think birds are like dogs, where they're all the same species, just different breeds, which is a profoundly stupid thing to believe about birds but would make statements like that actually make a little more sense.
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There's a Honeyeater living in the tree at the front of my house who despises Magpies. We keep him fed with a few extra seeds and things for the service.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:There's a Honeyeater living in the tree at the front of my house who despises Magpies. We keep him fed with a few extra seeds and things for the service. What exactly does they Honeyeater do to the Magpies? Puffins definitely have some bad angles  Like this  But sometime.... wait um...  And they always look sad  But in the end you can't forget where they.... umm  I've forgotten why I was posting puffins now Someone please remind me
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Don't think they've been posted, but caiques rule. Dom DeLuise was also pretty cool.
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The prettiest pigeon  (victoria crowned pigeon)
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