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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/mUf0sEY.mp4

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Pookah
Aug 21, 2008

🪶Caw🪶





YggiDee posted:

Imagine If the chickadees liked you so much that they hide food in your pocket :swoon:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxQfOqKuQtE
Until I saw this video, I had no idea chickadees are basically New World tits! I love tits, they are the perkiest, most uplifting little forest friends. Just yesterday I saw a whole big family of long-tailed tits in the cedar outside my house and they were just so drat cute. I took pictures but they were all terrible. :(

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/WFiDhb7.mp4

SO DEMANDING
Dec 27, 2003

Pookah posted:

I love tits, they are the perkiest,



And now my favorite picture of tits:

Nordick
Sep 3, 2011

Yes.
We obviously don't have Australian magpies in Europe, and our actual magpies sound like an angry cheesegrater, but we do have Common Blackbirds

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

There was one hanging around in the trees right outside my window earlier in the summer/spring, and they sound even more delightful live than on this video. There's this odd quality to their song where they seem to have more reverb than any other sounds in the environment, and an almost otherworldly clarity. And it's absolutely not a quiet song you have to struggle to listen to, it really stands out, especially as they usually sing at night when most everything else is quiet.

BetterLekNextTime
Jul 22, 2008

It's all a matter of perspective...
Grimey Drawer

Nordick posted:

We obviously don't have Australian magpies in Europe, and our actual magpies sound like an angry cheesegrater, but we do have Common Blackbirds

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

There was one hanging around in the trees right outside my window earlier in the summer/spring, and they sound even more delightful live than on this video. There's this odd quality to their song where they seem to have more reverb than any other sounds in the environment, and an almost otherworldly clarity. And it's absolutely not a quiet song you have to struggle to listen to, it really stands out, especially as they usually sing at night when most everything else is quiet.

The thrushes really make use of their dual sound source syrinx (wood thrush is the last example)

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/CarlBovisNature/status/1283736797432995843

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


https://twitter.com/wakizllc1/status/1275351423891337217

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.
https://youtu.be/bFvqf8Z13PU

Megabound
Oct 20, 2012


Whip birds are also a good Australian bird call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vz7mqnrzZg

Pookah
Aug 21, 2008

🪶Caw🪶





Goldfinches are like a very shy, retiring person who has been forced by peculiar circumstances into dressing like a clown. They always look a little embarrassed by their flamboyance :3:

I love wren song - it's as sweet as a blackbirds, but much simpler, and incredibly LOUD for such a tiny bird. We were out doing in the woods last weekend and met a whole family of wren fledglings sitting all truculent on the edge of the footpath. Their poor mother was roaring at them to come into the hedge but the babbies just glared angrily at us until we went away

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS


imagine needing feathers to fly

lol

*this post made by synapsid gang*

Pookah
Aug 21, 2008

🪶Caw🪶





Randaconda posted:



imagine needing feathers to fly

lol

*this post made by synapsid gang*

Bats have horrible singing voices, they all sound like tone-deaf Joseph Locke clones :(

Agrinja
Nov 30, 2013

Praise the Sun!

Total Clam

Randaconda posted:



imagine needing feathers to fly

lol

*this post made by synapsid gang*

This bat kind of looks like Yngwie Malmsteen.

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.
Rufous potoo
(No, autocorrect, I did not mean potpourri)

This is Rufus T. Potoo

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

https://twitter.com/PabloRochat/status/1285598426881720320

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT
Wherein a very clean, rotund duck is ever so gently jiggled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Da8ZhKcNKQ

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/vandroidhelsing/status/1286462608678121473

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/hood_naturalist/status/1286687096409817089

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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



:hmmyes: "the chaos of it all" is very descriptive of Aves

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/2i9MWIU.mp4

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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



yaaay puffins :neckbeard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD3rxqM21sA

lil friend is scared of the seagulls :ohdear:

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

Carthag Tuek posted:

yaaay puffins :neckbeard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD3rxqM21sA

lil friend is scared of the seagulls :ohdear:

Probably smart. Puffin also matches the photographer’s gear.

Edit: yeah, there are gulls that prey on puffins, according to a quick google search. So that’s a smart puffin. Although they are more likely to hang out and watch for puffins returning home with a beak full of fish, jumping them, then stealing the puffin’s fish.

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Winklebottom
Dec 19, 2007

I visited a puffin colony on the Faroe Islands a few years back





They are the best

ynohtna
Feb 16, 2007

backwoods compatible
Illegal Hen

Carthag Tuek posted:

yaaay puffins :neckbeard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD3rxqM21sA

lil friend is scared of the seagulls :ohdear:

Oh my, that is just so lovely.

:bird: "Hey cool, photographer-friend, are you on Twitter?"

"Er, yeah... um... @ishootpuffins" :blush:


(Please share more puffins, thank you all very much in advance.)

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
i have recently learned that there is a type of owl that is named Powerful Owl. the name seems appropriate.

A Sometimes Food
Dec 8, 2010

Winklebottom posted:

I visited a puffin colony on the Faroe Islands a few years back





They are the best

I always assumed they ate shellfish and that's why their beaks were big. Huh.

lord funk
Feb 16, 2004

They have inward sloping ridges on their beaks so they can keep shoving more fish into their mouths.

It's... e-fish-ient.

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE
Puffins shed the colourful part of their beaks when not in breeding season because birds are gonna be weird like that.

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

Tsaedje posted:

Puffins shed the colourful part of their beaks when not in breeding season because birds are gonna be weird like that.

So the colorful part of the beak is to signal how much fish they can cram in their faces to potential mates?

That’s awesome.


https://youtu.be/oGdVSvsiaOk


https://youtu.be/a3Az3WhfPv0

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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/s7hi6e6.mp4

EoinCannon
Aug 29, 2008

Grimey Drawer

uber_stoat posted:

i have recently learned that there is a type of owl that is named Powerful Owl. the name seems appropriate.



We get them in inner suburban Melbourne.
They scare the poo poo out of you at night because they wait until you walk right underneath them before they fly away and you just feel the beat of the wings in the air because they're so quiet.

Helith
Nov 5, 2009

Basket of Adorables


They’re good for scaring the drop bears away though.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/ke4zB0o.mp4

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


:same:

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

extremely same

Nordick
Sep 3, 2011

Yes.
Ah yes, it is the elusive Mood Owl

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

*sigh* why can't I be Powerful like the other owls?

Literally Esoteric
Jun 13, 2012

One final, furious struggle...then a howl of victory
https://i.imgur.com/7qr0DMZ.mp4

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Raine
Apr 30, 2013

ACCELERATIONIST SUPERDOOMER





my birb



my birb, thinkin


edit: my other birb


Raine has a new favorite as of 01:34 on Aug 1, 2020

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