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In the boardgame Wingspan corvids are great utility birds. In the base game they have the ability to turn an egg into x food. So if you put them in your lay eggs column you can get whatever food you want. One of them (American Raven I think?) Can trade one egg for two food which is stupid strong early game
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 01:27 |
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Did I do this right???
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 01:30 |
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 01:34 |
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Hub Cat posted:
No but in a display of magnanimity I will allow it. It's a good picture. Fun fact I work in medical documentation and I have a serious problem accidentally putting CORVID instead of COVID in patient's charts. I had to set it up to autocorrect.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 01:35 |
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Ravens are awesome. I always love seeing them hop around, watching people or messing with each other. Probably some of the coolest animals around.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 01:46 |
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oh Moon Slayer, this is my poo poo, here's a video of me feeding a young magpie while her parents make sure I don't do anything mean https://i.imgur.com/FjEzngc.mp4 Magpies are just about my favourite birds and while teeeechnically Australian magpies aren't in the family Corvidae (being Artamidae, but part of the greater corvid lineage instead), I hope you'll allow it
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 01:48 |
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- hop - eat seeed - peck at dir #justbirdthings
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dreamin of semen posted:Magpies are just about my favourite birds and while teeeechnically Australian magpies aren't in the family Corvidae (being Artamidae instead), I hope you'll allow it I will.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 01:51 |
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Ravens are awesome. I always love seeing them hop around, watching people or messing with each other. Probably some of the coolest animals around. bad collision geometry on that 2nd pic
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 01:56 |
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It's time for Corvidae, my favourite bird family! Of the corvids, crows are probably my favourite. They're smart, they're everywhere, there's a family of them who like to hang out in the tree outside my house and scream at passing raptors. But crows also get all the press (along with ravens, aka "it's like a crow but 30% bigger and gloomier"), so instead I'm going to talk about one of the prettiest corvids: the blue jay! They're ubiquitous where I live and I usually see a few in my backyard every day. In the summer they're pretty sleek In the winter they get reaaaaaaal poofy, unless they migrate south -- fun fact, some blue jays migrate south and some don't! It doesn't seem to be regional, though, in any given area some will migrate and some will just stay there year-round. They're omnivores, but they especially love peanuts. If you set up a peanut feeder and keep refilling it they will figure out not just where you live, but where in the building you tend to be at any given time of day, and, when it runs out, fly to that window to scream at you. They also do whatever this is. Probably an argument over a peanut, or possibly an air traffic control failure. Len posted:In the boardgame Wingspan corvids are great utility birds. In the base game they have the ability to turn an egg into x food. So if you put them in your lay eggs column you can get whatever food you want. One of them (American Raven I think?) Can trade one egg for two food which is stupid strong early game My girlfriend got us Wingspan for christmas and we've been playing it a bunch, and my best game was the one where I got like three corvids and just went all-in on the corvid strategy. Hoarding corvids is a brutally effective strategy. A lot of things about that game impress me, but probably the thing that impresses me the most is how good a job they've done making the mechanics of the various birds thematically related to their real-world behaviours.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 02:00 |
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At our local game parlor we call that CrowTec and I will use it every game whether I win or not. But drat it I have so much food. The expansion adds in magpies which let you take food from another player
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 02:04 |
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Alright Alright definitely got it this time
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 02:05 |
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Here's that article about the girl who feeds crows and they pay her.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 02:07 |
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Now I want some crow friends too.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 02:24 |
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This is an extremely good post, btw.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WupH8oyrAo
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 03:21 |
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Moon Slayer presents: PYF Corvid Presents: Bird's Favorite Crows
2) The ones that are nesting in my apartment complex. 3) The other ones that are nesting in my apartment complex and sometimes get into fights with the first ones. 4) "T. Robot" 5) These guys: 6) These ones 7) All the rest of them Also, the man from the video game Dishonored. Thank you.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 03:30 |
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my favorite has to be ravens
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 03:31 |
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The way these crows are clearly able to understand the puzzles blows my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 03:39 |
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I'm different!
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 03:41 |
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i keep almonds in a bag in my pocket for when i go out for walks and see ravens and magpies (australian), so i can feed them. some of the ones around here even come closer and hang out.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 03:57 |
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ToxicFrog posted:the prettiest corvids: the blue jay! Or the green jay? Or the, uh..... red jay?
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 03:59 |
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Shifty Nipples posted:The way these crows are clearly able to understand the puzzles blows my mind. Ha, I went looking for that video but couldn't figure out to search for it. I did find this, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSu2PXOTOc edit: alright, I can't mine to embed for some reason. I am clearly not as smart as a corvid. JacquelineDempsey fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Apr 2, 2020 |
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Scarodactyl posted:Yeah, but what about the stellar jay? I love you ombre bird
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 04:04 |
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ToxicFrog posted:It's time for Corvidae, my favourite bird family! Blue jays are great. Probably my favorite corvids that I see on a regular basis. But they never come to say hello!
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 04:05 |
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Scarodactyl posted:Or the, uh..... red jay? was hoping to follow the st louis red jays this year but, no MLB
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 04:09 |
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Hub Cat posted:
Is that how their necks are supposed to look? Looks kind of like a dog with an embedded collar. Also I think the crows the other day confused my foster dog for my own dog who's been gone more than a year. One of them landed right next to us, the first time that's happened since I had my dog. The foster dog had about the right colors, I guess. Fortunately he didn't seem to care -- some dogs would wanna chase. Anyways there's a pair that likes to follow me around if I'm walking a dog trying to get treat scraps =)
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 04:10 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Blue jays are great. Probably my favorite corvids that I see on a regular basis. But they never come to say hello! Feed them for a while. If they still won't say hello, stop feeding them and they'll come say hello very loudly until you start again.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 04:16 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Blue jays are great. Probably my favorite corvids that I see on a regular basis. But they never come to say hello! I can say from experience that if you want them to say "go gently caress yourself", just stand by the nest as the fledglings are plopping out of the tree. I leaned over to take a picture, and next thing something smacks me in the back of the head, followed by a sharp pinching sensation. Momma got away with a clump of my hair, defending her young. Can't says I blame her, she was just doing her job. But yeah for suck a smallish bird they pack a wallop in dive bomb mode. edit: also, Moon Slayer, I welcome your new regime. My husband and I might have the-corvid-that's-missing-the-letter-R thing, so this has been an incredibly pleasant distraction. JacquelineDempsey fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Apr 2, 2020 |
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HairyManling posted:Now I want some crow friends too. If you play your cards right, you can end up like my friend and former goon tef, who has a personal murder. https://twitter.com/emmaggarland/status/1243950035064238081?s=21
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 04:27 |
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There's a cat in my neighborhood that roams around and you can track where it is at all times because a crow will always be in a tree above it crowing. They do hand-offs when it crosses the street.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:edit: also, Moon Slayer, I welcome your new regime. My husband and I might have the-corvid-that's-missing-the-letter-R thing, so this has been an incredibly pleasant distraction. you have a cow?
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Subjunctive posted:If you play your cards right, you can end up like my friend and former goon tef, who has a personal murder. I was waiting for tef to get posted.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 04:43 |
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No greater corvid than the noble magpie.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 04:44 |
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ToxicFrog posted:Feed them for a while. I don't want to bribe them to be my friend, I want that friendship to come from mutual interests in making silly noises.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 04:44 |
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Now there's a beautiful corvid. 1974 if I'm not mistaken.
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Subjunctive posted:If you play your cards right, you can end up like my friend and former goon tef, who has a personal murder. That’s clearly Soulblighter in his early days. Before the glaive and all.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 04:48 |
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Porfiriato posted:
Hmm ... I'll allow it.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 04:50 |
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Lone Goat posted:you have a cow? I wish. In the meantime, enjoy some bovids 'n' corvids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht_JE5ElV_8
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Str Trk Crw
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