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Ziv Zulander posted:What's up with the bird's pupils? It's called pinning - lots of birds do it when they are very interested/excited/angry. Ringnecks are very enthusiastic pinners 
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Krinkle posted:Somewhere in this thread I read about eye pinning. I wish my conure's eyes weren't brown and black because I can't tell if he's boggling his eyes out at anything. How does he feel about paper bags, cardboard tubes etc.? My bird (grey; notorious toy haters), does not like most bird toys but she will happily destroy anything made from brown paper. A good intro could be a small paper bag with something delicious hidden inside - non-threatening and tasty! Pookah has a new favorite as of 09:29 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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Tendai posted:my favorite birb is an indignant cockatiel  Year ago, my cockatiel went missing, so we spent the next hour searching for her in and under everything we could think of without success. Then someone remembered that they had closed the curtains about the time she was last seen and went to look. There she was; safe behind the curtains and fluffed up like a football She was very very cross about being woken up to be put to bed - so much hissing, so many little pinches (she was an extremely gentle bird).
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Tendai posted:Cockatiels are the best and purest things on this big dumb planet I keep coming back to look at this because it is so perfect - thank you
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Apr 20, 2018 07:22
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Facebook Aunt posted:Bugger off, we're full! Reminds me of Eric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVzI6Gh08Ns (Content Warning: Eric is a very rude and very Australian bird)
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Apr 22, 2018 16:38
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I've noticed that even birds that are normally quite wary get pretty lax about it when they worn-out by parenting - our local blackbirds are normally all CHIK-CHIK-CHIK when anyone comes near them except in the nesting season where you often find the hen spread out like a pancake on the lawn to sunbathe, obviously getting 5 goddamn minutes to herself away from those goddamn kids and does not care who is looking at her. The grey crows who lived for more than 20 years in the big tree opposite from us got so relaxed with my family they used to leave the newly fledged chicks to play beside us if we were sitting outside - I really miss them, they were an amazing family.
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spleen merchant posted:This is one of my favourite things on the internet:  You know it makes sense. 
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May 2, 2018 15:01
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spleen merchant posted:Made my night TY. You're v. welcome I love chickens and I'm glad to hear you have some magic shapeshifting ones.
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May 2, 2018 17:29
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Just the cutest game of craps
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May 4, 2018 10:15
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Bored posted:I wish it had sound. I bet the peeps they are making are adorable. They are!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yf4DMw7TQA peep peep peep
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May 4, 2018 16:55
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It's the time of year when the swallows come back from Africa, which is always lovely, but yesterday was sort of special; I was sitting outside in the sunshine when suddenly a huge burst of swallow twittering broke out just beside me, it was just so loud and joyful I went over to see what was happening. Just as I got to where it was loudest, I saw a pair of swallows zooming out from the shed they've been nesting in for the last two years, still singing together. I think maybe they are just really happy to be back
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May 5, 2018 07:49
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSu1nC6ySLM So stompy
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May 6, 2018 07:12
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Bored posted:This is great wording. I don't know why, but it made me laugh for a good 30 seconds. What a Rude cockatiel! Here's one with excellent singing and foot-tappin skills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhjbazNuqvs And a grey being very grey-like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmeUSSEaxfQ
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May 14, 2018 18:45
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May 15, 2018 09:51
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Weatherman posted:It's barn swallow nesting season here and I found this wonderful live feed that's now playing on my tv in the background all day. Ooh they are so close to fledging
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Can you imagine if the X-Files was scripted by cockatiels? AAAAHH SCARY MYSTERY *Investigate cautiously* OH OK, ITS MY REFLECTION HALLO FRIEND WHEEET WHIT WHOO WHEET WHIT WOO Every episode would be the same too.
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Jun 7, 2018 14:42
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Tendai posted:You have no idea how much I would watch that. I just realised that when I was imagining being a cockatiel X-Files scriptwriter, it wasn't any old cockatiel - it was Marnie's friend Mr. Pretty Bird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEf144hcmZ4
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Master Twig posted:This bird feels like a Monday morning bird. Looks like someone photoshopped the top of a peach in front of a little black bird.  First baby swallow this year
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Jun 11, 2018 18:08
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This morning when I was out walking the dog, I saw a parent rook with two big chicks following them around demanding very loudly to be fed. All of a sudden, the parent just... cracked or something; they just started screaming and jumping up and down with their wings half out, right in the baby's faces for about 5 seconds and then stopped just as suddenly and walked away. The chicks just stood there completely silently for a little while, then walked after the parent without making a single sound.  For reference: A Rook
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Jul 1, 2018 14:47
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Heath posted:Ceci c'est un canard. This joke's hot enough to set off a Maillard reaction! (Seriously though; everyone should applaud this very excellent bit of word play) Pookah has a new favorite as of 22:04 on Jul 5, 2018 |
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Jul 5, 2018 18:27
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Nordick posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-leeds-44713074/pied-crow-with-yorkshire-accent-filmed-in-knaresborough Came here to post this - it sounds so like a nice little old lady https://inews.co.uk/video/crow-yorkshire-accent/ (BBC link video doesn't work for me, this second one does)
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Jul 6, 2018 11:47
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DrSnakeLaser posted:American Beauty remake is taking a weird direction. American Beauty : Totally Cockatooty
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Looks like a raven to me, or maybe a carrion crow? The beak length and shape look very raven-y anyway. The standard british crow is a rook isn't it? It's definitely not a rook.
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Jul 18, 2018 10:34
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We've got this deceptively fierce looking doofus hanging around the front steps of the house today. Seems to think that if he/she stomps around on top of a hedge for a while, sparrows will miraculously appear and just climb into his/her beak.
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Aug 17, 2018 16:20
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Tendai posted:Those gangly legs 'All the better to stagger around on top of a hedge trying to grab you from several feet away? ...my pretties!'  
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Bored posted:So...Did it work? The stomping, I mean. Were sparrows leaping into its mouth? It did not  Bird is a juvenile sparrowhawk, a species noted for its skill at making surprise attacks from camouflaged positions. Babby's mother regularly hunts and kills doves in our garden - they almost never see her coming. She flew past my head once, just an inch or two away and all I saw was a brown blur. Last year's baby was just as funny when it was learning how to hunt - it thought that it could reasonably stand openly on top of a building and pounce at a flock of starlings that was watching it and making rude remarks from a bramble thicket nearby. Tendai posted:Amazing Thank you!
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Tendai posted:my theme is "my favorite dumb bird memes" A slightly different flavour of bird meme:  This person's take on how african greys are just seem to capture something about their specific kind of weirdness. Edit: this one is extremely true: 
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Bird https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2018/aug/20/2018-bird-photographer-of-the-year-in-pictures   Competition for the title was very fierce, as you can clearly see.
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Just replicating wild cockatoo behaviour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_wh3liNT_o https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...i-a7819586.html (Shush, I know its a completely different kind of cockatoo)
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Snoozy Booge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoH8biMTspU Cuddly budgies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OhrZ0mbves Sleepy baby
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Pogeese just working hard and keeping the peace.
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Master Twig posted:It's thursday. Here's a butt. Is that a fantail from New Zealand??? They are just the best little birds to meet in the forest - they come right up to you to see what you're doing, then flash their tails at you just to show off. I remember looking up at a really steep, forested cliff-face at dusk and seeing lots and lots of mysterious little white flashes. Took me about 5 minutes and a lot of squinting to work out that they were fantails strutting their stuff for the ladies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=988Jy-22u1g
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StandardVC10 posted:Looks like it could be an American Redstart. Ooh, they are lovely birds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmGoY4grsrg So fancy! Edit: My face when he/she starts bringing the ball back: 
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Sep 28, 2018 12:34
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Master Twig posted:Tiny birb is angry that it's not Friday yet. I feel like this tiny birb is angry that seditionists are threatening to undermine His Glorious Rule.
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Randaconda posted:handsome boi Budgies are amazing and wonderful birds; everything they do they do with huge gusto. It's like they live life in technicolour. I remember reading about this a few years ago - a wildlife ranger was telling people not to leave them if they found a drunk keruru in the woods, instead the advice was to gather them up in a bucket or something similar and bring them to a vet. Apparently the drunkness lasts much longer it would in people because the birds aren't just drinking/eating alcohol, they have a crop full of fermenting fruit so they are basically little mobile breweries staggering around the woods at this time of year. Only cure is to cut off fruit supplies until production shuts down.
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Bored posted:I like to imagine it is cleaning up its mess after crapping on the counter. A thoughtful bird. I'm forced to imagine that it has been wiping up poop and is now going off to drop the poopy tissue in someone's coffee.
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What a very fancy bird. Gosh, I hope there are more pictures of it!
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Inglonias posted:They're just a b a b y c o c k a t o o Over here pressing sandwiches against my screen trying to feed this poor starving babby 
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Gannets are boobies! I only found this out a couple of weeks ago - it's pretty obvious when you look at them that they are from the same family, but I always assumed boobies only live on tropical islands.
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Winklebottom posted:Weeeeell, gannets and boobies are separate species (Morus vs. Sula) but they're both Sulidae family (we cut out the middle man in Danish and just call them all sule) Happy to be corrected  I love birds, but I'm no expert in the details; I'm embarassed to admit I only found out that starlings aren't corvidae last year.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SZ07K3cg0k
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