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Shirec posted:I assume those were the gentlest of bites, what's the full force of a cockatoo bite look like? Has anyone ever been swarmed by a flock and mauled?
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Sometimes they carry them off, no bodies have ever been found.
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May 20, 2016 21:33
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a fllock of cockatoos in a feeding frenzy can skeletonize a cow in three minutes
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May 20, 2016 21:41
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President Ark posted:skeletonize This is a great word.
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May 20, 2016 23:05
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Tendai posted:Hundreds, nay, thousands, of small Australian children are lost this way every year. This is why there are more people in Tokyo than our entire country
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May 21, 2016 00:53
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If cocky decides to actually bite you, you are not going to just stand there and let her bite you again
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I'm so excited! Cricket is coming home tomorrow! We have everything set up, but now I am mildly panicking over silly stuff. I'm wondering now if I made her cage too busy, or if she will like the toys we got her etc. I spent the afternoon making chop and grain bake for her...it smelled great! Hopefully she will eat it. I also have a few things to put on her skewer for her to nibble on if she wants...broccoli, cauliflower, a pepper piece, and a strawberry section. We even have her first vet appt set up for Sunday at the bird clinic. We even picked up a Bird first Aid Kit to have on hand just in case. I don't think I am forgetting anything, at least, I hope not. Now, setting up stuff to take with us to go get her. A towel for the travel cage, a few Nutriberries (thank you again LAB)...but most of all hoping she won't miss her other home and bird buddies too much. I am worrying way too much. Someone smack me! I so need to sleep tonight, but I am amped over having her home tomorrow. It's going to be a long night...
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Cricket will do fine dude. You've clearly put a ton of preparation into this.
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May 21, 2016 05:57
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learnincurve posted:Sometimes they carry them off, no bodies have ever been found. If you see a flock of Cockatoos in a park or even just in a tree nearby, walk away. They will converge on a person with a single will, enshroud them completely in white, and after a moment of pure silence that resonates through all nearby living things, they will depart leaving nothing behind of their unfortunate victim.
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Mizuti posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPl8yqwwRfU none of the birds here will let me just straight pick them up
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May 21, 2016 12:22
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Re1HQqFLc Eric's feeling sassy (I love that there's a cockatoo named loving Eric of all things) Also, baby conures  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_rZXgEeTBE Tendai fucked around with this message at 13:42 on May 21, 2016 |
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May 21, 2016 13:29
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Tendai posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Re1HQqFLc  I don't know if it's the Australian or Corellas or what, but I need subtitles for Eric videos, I can't pick up anything he's saying. 
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Finally got a photo of Inko scritching himself. He can only do it with this leg while holding on to the top of the cage with a single claw on his other foot, and enlisting the help of gravity this way, since his legs and feet are all messed up His cage is behind me, and he'll instantly stop and likely move if he catches you looking at him while he's doing this-so most of the time when I moved to get camera or turn to photograph he would stop and reeeeee at me. Plus my camera is hosed and will only take one photo before needing to be reset... so this was no easy task. But look at that face
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Gotcha made a friend  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Bt5hN1NOI Battle Pigeon posted:Finally got a photo of Inko scritching himself. He can only do it with this leg while holding on to the top of the cage with a single claw on his other foot, and enlisting the help of gravity this way, since his legs and feet are all messed up
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxM34uNh22E Cockatoos are 90% of the reason I want to move to Australia.
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Official Bizness posted:Cockatoos are 90% of the reason I want to move to Australia. Are you prepared for this outside your window at 4:00 in the morning? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6UGjqIvPMY
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Tendai posted:Holy poo poo look at that happy birdface His toes don't work properly either-he can only use two, maybe three at most, and basically just open and closes them but look how happy he is to be able to do it Mizuti posted:Are you prepared for this outside your window at 4:00 in the morning? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Official Bizness posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxM34uNh22E i want to make a daytrip up there one day my favourite was the guy who's really angry at all the birds like come on dude you know why you're in that particular park Mizuti posted:Are you prepared for this outside your window at 4:00 in the morning? the first time i ever saw a baby cockatoo i didn't know why it was making that noise where the red fern gropes fucked around with this message at 01:25 on May 22, 2016 |
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I'm still not sure, come on bird, you have adult feathers, you have left the nest, and you have a beak bigger than most birds on the planet and they manage to find food for themselves, surely you can as well?
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Mizuti posted:Are you prepared for this outside your window at 4:00 in the morning? EDIT for related video lookatthebabyyyy!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhl6iblZOM Tendai fucked around with this message at 04:04 on May 22, 2016 |
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May 22, 2016 04:01
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Mizuti posted:Are you prepared for this outside your window at 4:00 in the morning? anyone got the video of the cockatoo inside on a table making that aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa noise before it slips and falls off the table e: nm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTNKGK7hVhY
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President Ark posted:anyone got the video of the cockatoo inside on a table making that aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa noise before it slips and falls off the table
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I guess "really really annoying" is an evolutionary strategy for your infants.
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 aaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaa aa aaaa aaaaa Shut up. aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAA OK FINE  Children 101
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I saw that this morning, but with a pair of starlings, instead. The little starling was just following around the bigger starling, squealing for bugs and being obnoxious.
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learnincurve posted:I'm still not sure, come on bird, you have adult feathers, you have left the nest, and you have a beak bigger than most birds on the planet and they manage to find food for themselves, surely you can as well? I wonder if that 'too has a forums account.
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It'll be on reddit complaining about how abusive it's mother is for threatening to make it forage for itself.
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learnincurve posted:It'll be on reddit complaining about how abusive it's mother is for threatening to make it forage for itself. [+2673] help reddit my rethuglican christian bird mom is refusing to regurgitate for me despite my disability
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The sparrows under my A/C unit must be getting ready to fledge cause every now and then I hear a ton of flapping even when the parents aren't there. The father keeps angrily chirping on the windowsill at my birds because he can hear them but can't see them.
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I'm still surprised the local bluebirds haven't gotten in a fight with Teeka. Because they fight everything else around the house: the grill, car mirrors, a window, the chimney, a particularly offensive lawnchair, and anything else that offends their bluebird religion or whatever.
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I think I need to play the new Doom with headphones from now on. After my last session Garrus started making demonic noises by yelling into his food dish.
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Earlier this week I bought some sheets of 1/8" acrylic to make seed guards for the bird cage that don't look like crap. Three days without vacuuming around the bird cage and there are a minimal amount of pellets on the floor. Success! The clear acrylic sheets are barely noticeable too. Here's Ozzy modeling with his home upgrade. The plastic wraps around the side of the cage where the two food dishes are. I drilled holes so I can use the food dish holders to attach them to the side of the cage.  I probably should have taken the picture after I cleaned the cage. Oh well you guys get to look at bird poop Pip pip pip fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Jun 12, 2016 |
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I asked my sister if being a parent (my niece is almost 2) is like the screaming baby cockatoo following his parents around and she confirmed it. Specifically:quote:I got 40 seconds in and then quit. Yes.
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I straight up do not have the tools to do this myself :C
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Eejit posted:I'm still surprised the local bluebirds haven't gotten in a fight with Teeka. Because they fight everything else around the house: the grill, car mirrors, a window, the chimney, a particularly offensive lawnchair, and anything else that offends their bluebird religion or whatever. I live in Brooklyn so it's mostly just pigeons and sparrows but I saw a red-tailed hawk eating a squirrel in a tree by the park near my apartment the other day. There are also these two giant dense trees in back of my building that are like a little bird oasis where are mockingbirds and robins who set up shop there in the summer. There's also a cardinal that lives there year round and Charlie picked up a couple of his calls. Archer, of course, decided that backyard bird calls are not worth learning and "car alarm" was the ticket to picking up the ladies.
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Ama got to my little glass of ice before I could pour my soda over it and was licking/chewing it feverishly so I gave him his own glass. 
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Ama is too cute for words
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Ama got to my little glass of ice before I could pour my soda over it and was licking/chewing it feverishly so I gave him his own glass. I assume what you mean is you got a new glass because that one was now his? 
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I found one of the swallows that are nesting in my parents' barn dead this morning. It had been building a nest, found a piece of fishing line, and started incorporating it into the nest. We found it hanging from the nest with the fishing line wrapped around its neck.
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