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Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oui5H13uaE

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Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



are cardinals supposed to be hostile?

also, i keep hearing magpies are aggressive but i never experienced it myself so im startin to wonder which magpies are supposed to be aggro?

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Krankenstyle posted:

are cardinals supposed to be hostile?

also, i keep hearing magpies are aggressive but i never experienced it myself so im startin to wonder which magpies are supposed to be aggro?

Cardinals are hella territorial.

Also a lot of birds are way more timid in front of huge, dangerous beings than they are in front of their bird peers.

Although I did run into a couple of sparrows who were doing a whole "puff up and scare you" display at me once. Yes, little buddies, I'm absolutely shaking to death at little fuzzballs I could open palm slam to death if I were so inclined. :allears:

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK

Krankenstyle posted:

are cardinals supposed to be hostile?

also, i keep hearing magpies are aggressive but i never experienced it myself so im startin to wonder which magpies are supposed to be aggro?

Male Australian magpies are nasty as gently caress during breeding season only. They are chill and good singers otherwise.

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Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Absurd Alhazred posted:

Although I did run into a couple of sparrows who were doing a whole "puff up and scare you" display at me once. Yes, little buddies, I'm absolutely shaking to death at little fuzzballs I could open palm slam to death if I were so inclined. :allears:

awwwwww :kimchi: crows do that kinda when i stomp thru the cemetery. not really but they stop and look at me like "wtf" while chewing slowly on some old thing they found.

good birds

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Weatherman posted:

Make Australian magpies are nasty as gently caress during breeding season only. They are chill and good singers otherwise.

also there must be a difference between euro & ozy magpies cause euros are chill as heck and cool as gently caress

Helith
Nov 5, 2009

Basket of Adorables


Krankenstyle posted:

also there must be a difference between euro & ozy magpies cause euros are chill as heck and cool as gently caress

Yeah Aussie Magpies are not corvids like Euro ones. They are a seperate and native species to Australia.
They are usually chill, curious and not afraid of humans until it's breeding season and then all bets are off,
They will aggressively protect their nests and swoop anything they regard as a threat, Whole neighbourhoods can be terrorised and people have had serious eye injuries, or even lost an eye to them'
Beautiful singers though.

Helith has a new favorite as of 09:33 on Feb 10, 2018

Megabound
Oct 20, 2012

Krankenstyle posted:

also there must be a difference between euro & ozy magpies cause euros are chill as heck and cool as gently caress

A lot of our birds were named thusly: "Oh hey, that looks like a Magpie. Let's call it a magpie.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



thank god!

thx for the clarification tho cause ive been wondering for a while

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Helith posted:

Yeah Aussie Magpies are not corvids like Euro ones. They are a seperate and native species to Australia.
They are usually chill, curious and not afraid of humans until it's breeding season and then all bets are off,
They will aggressively protect their nests and swoop anything they regard as a threat, Whole neighbourhoods can be terrorised and people have had serious eye injuries, or even lost an eye to them'
Beautiful singers though.

Sounds a lot like northern mockingbirds in the American south. Except mockingbirds are so small the only things they tend to actually terrorize are squirrels, pets, and children.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4dYWhkSbTU&t=35s

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

I hope you like guano in your shoe.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOxheDoks_Y

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Absurd Alhazred posted:

I hope you like guano in your shoe.

It's fine. Once the birb finishes tearing out all the lining and insole the shoe will be too uncomfortable to wear anyway.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
http://i.imgur.com/cENBMeE.gifv

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/KenOrich1/status/962789982409666560

Edit:

https://twitter.com/corvidresearch/status/964562544084975616

Corvids! :swoon:

Absurd Alhazred has a new favorite as of 06:49 on Feb 17, 2018

Kart Barfunkel
Nov 10, 2009


I, I, I love little birds they make me feel so good
I love...little birds they make me feel so...glad.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/claspaoni/status/958850507803582464

lord funk
Feb 16, 2004

There is evidently a Snowy down here in Milwaukee, and one reported a little north in Port Washington. A friend and I go out to find them, but it normally turns into day drinking and brunch with no owl :cheers:

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

lord funk posted:

There is evidently a Snowy down here in Milwaukee, and one reported a little north in Port Washington. A friend and I go out to find them, but it normally turns into day drinking and brunch with no owl :cheers:

a noble pursuitte

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/965026188413538304

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.
https://youtu.be/YE8PTMSFMUg

https://youtu.be/h9cQrzl145I

Apparently any time parrots play peekaboo, their pupils dilate and contract.

https://youtu.be/etrFpO8Jifs

Bored has a new favorite as of 08:59 on Feb 18, 2018

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMEccNLXcQc

Edited for more:

https://twitter.com/ABBestphotos/status/965418156662468609

Edited 2 for more 2:

https://twitter.com/Aviationdailyy/status/965184606805876736

Absurd Alhazred has a new favorite as of 06:30 on Feb 19, 2018

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.
https://youtu.be/iyw6_lu3Y7Q

There are animated gifs from this, but neither of the sites that I have been using for gifs are working anymore for anything animated.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
Wait for iiitt...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akWK0CvW6Jk

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




lmao at the upper/eating one all like "oh poo poo i can sing too!!"

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDRaNcO8N9g

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.
https://youtu.be/A2VbWtjdNQE

redm
Feb 20, 2016


Sugartime Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmeUSSEaxfQ

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

https://twitter.com/helenhousandi/status/967073559527948288

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

That's hardcore.

Megabound
Oct 20, 2012

Rainbow Lorikeets!



Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

"Yes, yes... soon our plans will come to fruition..."

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
Come on, they just took a sparrow and attached some other type finch's head to it!

https://twitter.com/_everybird_/status/967638326055522310

Fake birds!

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Come on, they just took a sparrow and attached some other type finch's head to it!

https://twitter.com/_everybird_/status/967638326055522310

Fake birds!

You can even see the seam!

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Oh, so that's what they look like when they're not making GBS threads all over my car.

Helith
Nov 5, 2009

Basket of Adorables


Absurd Alhazred posted:

"Yes, yes... soon our plans will come to fruition..."

Their plans are pretty much ‘strip this tree of nectar while making making as much noise as birdly possible and be absolutely fabulous while doing it!’
We have a couple of pairs of Rainbow Lorikeets that have claimed the bottlebrush tree outside our balcony. All other birds are noisily chased off. When they are chill though, they have a lovely melodic coo and are pretty friendly. Once the tree has finished flowering (which it does twice, spring and summer) , they disappear and other birds move back in.
So we either get woken up by Lorikeets screeching or by Kookaburras laughing, Currawongs, Magpies and Butcherbirds singing.
Great photos of them, mine are all crappy iPhone pictures.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Helith posted:

Their plans are pretty much ‘strip this tree of nectar while making making as much noise as birdly possible and be absolutely fabulous while doing it!’
We have a couple of pairs of Rainbow Lorikeets that have claimed the bottlebrush tree outside our balcony. All other birds are noisily chased off. When they are chill though, they have a lovely melodic coo and are pretty friendly. Once the tree has finished flowering (which it does twice, spring and summer) , they disappear and other birds move back in.
So we either get woken up by Lorikeets screeching or by Kookaburras laughing, Currawongs, Magpies and Butcherbirds singing.
Great photos of them, mine are all crappy iPhone pictures.

:kimchi:

https://twitter.com/msgwenl/status/967185407136993280

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Doctor Bishop
Oct 22, 2013

To understand what happened at the diner, we use Mr. Papaya. This is upsetting because he is the friendliest of fruits.
borbstep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXUMPSjwpFI

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