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zcrow
May 6, 2014

Ah.. yeah... um... tup tup tup tup tup.. this is something we'll add down the line
How I felt when I realised I was saying caique wrong.
https://i.imgur.com/68BXavD.gifv

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Forsythia
Jan 28, 2007

You want bad advice?

Anything is okay if you don't get caught!

... I hope this helps!


From here

Sekkira
Apr 11, 2008

I Don't Get It,
I Don't Get It,

They will always be cakes to me. I don't give a drat about the correct pronunciation.

The Narrator
Aug 11, 2011

bernie would have won
Wait... how is it pronounced?

zcrow
May 6, 2014

Ah.. yeah... um... tup tup tup tup tup.. this is something we'll add down the line

The Narrator posted:

Wait... how is it pronounced?

Apparently its 'KAI-EE-KAY'.
:shrug:

Battle Pigeon
Nov 7, 2011

I am dancing potato
give me millet


Sekkira posted:

They will always be cakes to me. I don't give a drat about the correct pronunciation.

This, now and forever. Adorable bouncing cake birds!

Trebuchet King
Jul 5, 2005

This post...

...is a
WORK OF FICTION!!



aw man here i was hoping someone else had stumbled into the worst possible mispronunciation like me.

zcrow
May 6, 2014

Ah.. yeah... um... tup tup tup tup tup.. this is something we'll add down the line

Trebuchet King posted:

aw man here i was hoping someone else had stumbled into the worst possible mispronunciation like me.

It took me a moment. Yeah, thats not great.

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

Trebuchet King posted:

aw man here i was hoping someone else had stumbled into the worst possible mispronunciation like me.

The sounds antisemitic worst mispronunciation? Oh dear.

Definitely 'cake' for me

Battle Pigeon
Nov 7, 2011

I am dancing potato
give me millet


Discord video call with birbs at vet :kimchi:

Steve just running along the cage floor back and forth non stop, Ohtori sticking his beak through the bars and flapping desperately asking for pets, and Inko just sitting there kissing non-stop

Trebuchet King
Jul 5, 2005

This post...

...is a
WORK OF FICTION!!



Tsaedje posted:

The sounds antisemitic worst mispronunciation? Oh dear.

Definitely 'cake' for me

the worst part was the first and only time i said it out loud it was to one of my closest friends who incidentally happens to be hella jewish

Inglonias
Mar 7, 2013

I WILL PUT THIS FLAG ON FREAKING EVERYTHING BECAUSE IT IS SYMBOLIC AS HELL SOMEHOW

Tsaedje posted:

The sounds antisemitic worst mispronunciation? Oh dear.

Definitely 'cake' for me

I pronounce it "Cai (Rhymes with "fly") - EEK"

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
Stolen from PYF.

https://i.imgur.com/mvYS8Ff.mp4

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
When no one was looking, Lex Luthor took forty caiques. He took 40 caiques. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.

Disco Salmon
Jun 19, 2004

Inglonias posted:

I pronounce it "Cai (Rhymes with "fly") - EEK"

That's the way I was taught to say it....it doesn't sound right to me any other way.

Halloween Jack posted:

When no one was looking, Lex Luthor took forty caiques. He took 40 caiques. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.

lol i can almost see the picture from the book that is sort of from :P

CROWS EVERYWHERE
Dec 17, 2012

CAW CAW CAW

Dinosaur Gum
Good birds at my vet sometimes get a card from the Birthday Caique so

Battle Pigeon
Nov 7, 2011

I am dancing potato
give me millet


Apparently Steve is on the loving warpath and blood has been spilled repeatedly

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

Good birds at my vet sometimes get a card from the Birthday Caique so

Do you have one we can see? :3:

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

zcrow posted:

How I felt when I realised I was saying caique wrong.
https://i.imgur.com/68BXavD.gifv
I always thought it was kah-eek, so it doesn't QUITE sound horribly antisemitic but also isn't like the thing you eat. I like that this is apparently one of the great mysteries of the bird world.

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

Good birds at my vet sometimes get a card from the Birthday Caique so
I also want to see this :allears:

1500
Nov 3, 2015

Give me all your crackers

Battle Pigeon posted:

Ohtori has one of the metal tube types on the way as well! But as a small raging conure he's unlikely to get the same results Bonnie did. :v:

Does she still play with it in itself, or just attempt to break it?

She plays with them. But her real means of playing is trying to destroy everything. She has thick hard plastic that she is slowly taking bits out of and will get through it in the not too distant future. And anything acrylic she goes straight for the seems and starts making progress on their destruction.

New Years resolution is to try and take more videos and photos of everyday life. So two new videos.


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

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

NeurosisHead
Jul 22, 2007

NONONONONONONONONO

1500 posted:

She plays with them. But her real means of playing is trying to destroy everything. She has thick hard plastic that she is slowly taking bits out of and will get through it in the not too distant future. And anything acrylic she goes straight for the seems and starts making progress on their destruction.

New Years resolution is to try and take more videos and photos of everyday life. So two new videos.


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

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

Holy poo poo your birds are adorable; I could listen to Pan laughing all day long. That was great.

Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost
hey guys it's been a while here's some updates on the birds

skillet has fallen in love with a ginger ale can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y7TY0rJdw4



booberry gets extremely jealous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucDyRJS4Wg


griddle is molting


and she's barbering. :sigh: we took her to the vet and there's nothing wrong with her medically, hopefully her next round of feathers don't get chewed up so bad



knock it off, griddle!


honey is... fine. she does not like the camera very much but she is starting to warm up to people

Mirthless fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jan 6, 2018

Eifert Posting
Apr 1, 2007

Most of the time he catches it every time.
Grimey Drawer
I always thought it was Kai-eek

Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjD1SA3lwyU

and then as i was writing that post they took a bath

sorry about the clutter, wife has been recovering from surgery and then got into a car accident on top of that and i'm having to juggle a lot of stuff right now D:

mikerock
Oct 29, 2005

Scout has those dark spots too, they started about a year ago and have gotten worse. How old is Griddle?

Battle Pigeon
Nov 7, 2011

I am dancing potato
give me millet


Ohtori also has some. In serious cases they can indicate liver issues, in his case it's from contact-rough playing and climbing around, and being handled

Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost

mikerock posted:

Scout has those dark spots too, they started about a year ago and have gotten worse. How old is Griddle?

She's about two years old. It's half bronzing and half barbering - you can see on the edge of her feathers where she's been trimming them. I understand the black spots on the feathers can be caused by overgrooming or just friction. Griddle likes to sleep against things so she ends up rubbing the pigment right off her feathers.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
Of course it's a cockatiel...

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Made me laugh the first time I saw it and made me laugh again this time. Amazing :allears:

redgubbinz
May 1, 2007



THE FOOT, THE!

1500
Nov 3, 2015

Give me all your crackers
https://i.imgur.com/Rj2bFMj.mp4

DarkHorse
Dec 13, 2006

Nap Ghost

Pusher birb/shover birb

Battle Pigeon
Nov 7, 2011

I am dancing potato
give me millet


https://www.birdnote.org/blog/2015/02/parrots-and-falcons-%97-long-lost-cousins

1500
Nov 3, 2015

Give me all your crackers
https://i.imgur.com/sMs7cDO.mp4

Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007
Hyacinth Macaws are so wonderful

They also always look so drat goofy :3:

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
They are my dream parrot because hoo boy that's a big financial/time investment for a single adult human being making under $30k/year right now, rescue or or otherwise.

But someday, maybe :3: Both the ones I've met have been gentle, confident birds in a way that spoke either to general temperament (maybe) or obsessive time/money investment (in addition to the emotional investment) on the part of the owners or past owners (more likely).

Youth Decay
Aug 18, 2015


Hyacinths were created by Jim Henson and you can't convince me otherwise.

theHUNGERian
Feb 23, 2006

https://i.imgur.com/0fGPEj2.mp4

RoboRodent
Sep 19, 2012

Ahhhhh tomorrow I get my new rescue tiel.

I hope he and my other bird become friends :ohdear:

theHUNGERian
Feb 23, 2006

WTF
https://i.imgur.com/kleXpmP.mp4

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Youth Decay
Aug 18, 2015


That video was viral a while ago (particularly among South Carolina Gamecock fans) and it pretty much proves that birds are just fashionably-dressed dinosaurs.

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