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Bert Roberge
Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/SamcassidySam/status/1149586349948723201

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ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1149425238012129280

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

https://twitter.com/corvidresearch/status/1149445201959641089

Edit for actual content:

https://twitter.com/JonathanSlaght/status/1149667287894560768

Absurd Alhazred has a new favorite as of 15:09 on Jul 12, 2019

SardonicTyrant
Feb 26, 2016

BTICH IM A NEWT
熱くなれ夢みた明日を
必ずいつかつかまえる
走り出せ振り向くことなく
&



Megillah Gorilla posted:

These birdspikes will keep those pesky birds away!


https://i.imgur.com/km3u2Y0.mp4
gently caress the birdlice

snergle
Aug 3, 2013

A kind little mouse!

Barry Bluejeans posted:

You gave them weapons? YOU GAVE THEM WEAPONS?

now im thinking of that scene in the new planet of the apes where the old chimp pretends to be dumb and picks up a gun like whats this. then shoots the people who let him pick it up.

Winklebottom
Dec 19, 2007

SardonicTyrant posted:

gently caress the birdlice



Ariong
Jun 25, 2012



Them’s good eats.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/Ti5dUtL.mp4

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1149764972026613760

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

How do you band chicks? How do the bands both stay on and accommodate growth?

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
Slippery Tilde
"Let go of me motherfucker so I can cut you"

Phanatic posted:

How do you band chicks? How do the bands both stay on and accommodate growth?
Put them on the leg, because of the way the foot is shaped they can't fall off. You can put a much larger band on than the size of the leg that birb will grow into. Think of it like a bracelet.

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

🍂🎃🏞️💦
Certain birds tagged with red bands get laid more often than ones with other colors or ones without. I forget where I read that, but birbs love adornments

venus de lmao
Apr 30, 2007

Call me "pixeltits"

birbs are great

Lord Zedd-Repulsa
Jul 21, 2007

Devour a good book.


https://i.imgur.com/nU7VkDP.mp4

Winklebottom
Dec 19, 2007

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Alcoholic bird, vape bird, what next? Murder bird?

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

🍂🎃🏞️💦

(tweet)

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/mpTu8jg.mp4

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/SomeEgrets/status/1151289769843974144

RoboRodent
Sep 19, 2012

Heath posted:

Certain birds tagged with red bands get laid more often than ones with other colors or ones without. I forget where I read that, but birbs love adornments

Lol. We talked about this phenomenon in zebra finches in an animal behaviour class I took. Zebra finches love red. Red is sexy.

ynohtna
Feb 16, 2007

backwoods compatible
Illegal Hen
So you're saying birbs have red flight districts?

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


ynohtna posted:

So you're saying birbs have red flight districts?

BOOO

thatbastardken
Apr 23, 2010

A contract signed by a minor is not binding!
https://twitter.com/WildRedlands/status/1151786006682583042

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
More cockatoo news:


quote:

Morgana Elaine was sitting in her car on a South Geelong, Melbourne street on Wednesday, when a sulphur-crested cockatoo landed on her vehicle.

The bird stuck its head through the window and proceeded to pinch Elaine's earring right out of her ear.



Elaine managed to get the earring back but the cockatoo didn't seem to happy about that, and continued to sit on the car and keep her 'hostage'.

The feathery incident was captured by Elaine, who livestreamed it on Facebook.

"This is my day right now. A cocky has flown over ... and stolen my earring out of my ear," she said in the video, while laughing as the bird continued to try and get into the car.

At one point, the cockatoo hangs upside-down from the door frame and bites at the steering wheel.

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK
Good bird :3:

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/l1sqtcS.mp4

Helith
Nov 5, 2009

Basket of Adorables


More Cockatoo news!

Reddit link for Cockatoo cockatooing around

Beartaco
Apr 10, 2007

by sebmojo

There are some A+ cockatoo stories in that thread!

Helith
Nov 5, 2009

Basket of Adorables


Beartaco posted:

There are some A+ cockatoo stories in that thread!



Yeah I like the one about the person digging in their garden watched by a few kookaburras and unearthing 3 funnelweb spiders and being saved by them swooping down to eat them.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Helith posted:

Yeah I like the one about the person digging in their garden watched by a few kookaburras and unearthing 3 funnelweb spiders and being saved by them swooping down to eat them.

I just googled funnelweb spiders and :whitewater: It does stand to reason that if any place has a birb badass enough to just munch on Satan's own murderspiders with no problem, it is the Land Down Under :australia:

Helith
Nov 5, 2009

Basket of Adorables


barbecue at the folks posted:

I just googled funnelweb spiders and :whitewater: It does stand to reason that if any place has a birb badass enough to just munch on Satan's own murderspiders with no problem, it is the Land Down Under :australia:

The venom doesn't have any effect on birds and it's only biological bad luck that it even has the effect it does on primates. Funnelwebs make a tasty snack for Kookaburras.
Still, you do not want to annoy a funnelweb as they are very aggressive and will run to you to bite you multiple time rather than run away like less murderous spiders.

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

There's a pair of Kookaburras in our street that like to annoy the rainbow Lorikeets that roost in a huge palm tree. They will sit and call and then swoop at the tree to make the Lorikeets panic and fly off. poo poo gets so noisy!

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer
Man, one of my favorite things about living in Oz was hearing a tree full of kookaburras go off right around sunset. It's just such an amazing otherworldly racket.

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Trig Discipline posted:

Man, one of my favorite things about living in Oz was hearing a tree full of kookaburras go off right around sunset. It's just such an amazing otherworldly racket.

They do it at sunrise too, which is sometimes less welcomed.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


My town is famous for its jackdaws. They like to gather into huge crowds (no pun intended) in the mornings and evenings to chat together before again going their separate ways to hunt for food or to sleep. (Un-)fortunately one of their favourite places is the huge maple tree just outside our bedroom window, so we get the mixed blessing of getting to regularly observe their very noisy social rites! They are very intelligent and social, and love to chat amongst themselves, which can be a bit of a bother at 6 AM in the morning on Sunday. Still, me and my wife love them to bits. :3: The kookaburra sound so much worse, though!

I mean, look at this birb

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Look how happy he is about being a pest. :3:

https://twitter.com/CUTEFUNNYANIMAL/status/1150798644557307905



barbecue at the folks posted:

My town is famous for its jackdaws.
We have a lot of jackdaws as well and I love them. Both handsome and clever.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Collateral Damage posted:

Look how happy he is about being a pest. :3:

We have a lot of jackdaws as well and I love them. Both handsome and clever.

They're intelligent enough to know when you are looking at them, making them a complete nuisance when eating outside. They patiently hang around at a safe distance, and the moment you turn your back - whoosh, they jump in for your food! I would be mad if they weren't just so drat awesome. :3:

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/2iCn8QB.mp4

Unmute

Nordick
Sep 3, 2011

Yes.

barbecue at the folks posted:

My town is famous for its jackdaws.

Collateral Damage posted:

We have a lot of jackdaws as well and I love them. Both handsome and clever.

Wattup jackdaw buddy buddies. :)

I wouldn't say my town is famous for them, but we do have loads of the little buggers and I also love them. I love observing them while I sit down for a coffee at my usual street cafe downtown. They'll just loiter about, totally not eyeing my food while scrounging around for crumbs, and sometimes one will just sit on a chair nearby and observe me right back. A few weeks ago one almost managed to snatch the last of my carrot cake while I was looking the other way momentarily. I did shoo it away, but honestly I was kinda sorry for having to do so. Personally I'd love to feed them the occasional scraps, but I don't think the café staff would be all too happy about that.


barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


What great birbs! We need a gangtag, JACKDAW BUDDIES or something. :3:

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Roobanguy
May 31, 2011

jackdawgs

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