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BOOTY-ADE posted:Even better when people don't know that birds bask or haven't seen it before & are like "I think my birb is broken please help Seriously. Long tailed grackles look like they are having a stroke every time they bask. From the “your job sucks” thread: Termyie posted:My work has been recently under attack by a crow that is taking windshield wipers from anything in the parking lot. Trucks, cars, tractors, you name it. This dang crow will steal it. Bored has a new favorite as of 19:36 on Mar 10, 2023 |
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Sagebrush posted:man i love watching birds spread out and bask like that
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Even better when people don't know that birds bask or haven't seen it before & are like "I think my birb is broken please help I remember someone new to birdcare asking if there was something wrong with their new little budgie friend because they kept sitting down on their feet, puffing out all their feathers and making weird little clicking noises with their beak. They were very comforted to hear that that combination of behaviors is a major indicator of Happy Birb 
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https://i.imgur.com/asaVPZ2.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/evdXkwf.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/coPmzVf.mp4 mobby_6kl has a new favorite as of 00:11 on Mar 11, 2023 |
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The Gladiators reboot I never knew I wanted.
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Where'd you find video of me on the dance floor?
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SubponticatePoster posted:Some of the owls would do this at the aviary I volunteered at - go in to feed them and it looked like carnage with half a dozen bigass owls sprawled all over the enclosure.
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ooh, crested pigeons! There's a lot of these guys living around my street. They are slow, fat and clumsy; they enjoy sitting on power lines during hailstorms. Somehow they are super abundant.
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Tree Bucket posted:Somehow they are super abundant. Doves in general subscribe to the 'have a million kids and it doesn't matter if nine hundred thousand of them don't survive to adulthood' model of species survival.
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Bored posted:Seriously. Long tailed grackles look like they are having a stroke every time they bask. Same with crows & ravens, they have this goofy "rebooting" beak-open expression like they're completely zooted 
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Same with crows & ravens, they have this goofy "rebooting" beak-open expression like they're completely zooted This is very true.
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TIL that the staff of the National Audubon Society have a union, but changed their name recently (because Audubon was super super racist and loved slavery and wrote a lot about how great slavery was) and now they are just called "Bird Union". And their website has this gif on it:
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mrmcd posted:TIL that the staff of the National Audubon Society have a union, but changed their name recently (because Audubon was super super racist and loved slavery and wrote a lot about how great slavery was) and now they are just called "Bird Union". And their website has this gif on it: hell yeah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlfKE2D16Fc
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mrmcd posted:TIL that the staff of the National Audubon Society have a union, but changed their name recently (because Audubon was super super racist and loved slavery and wrote a lot about how great slavery was) and now they are just called "Bird Union". And their website has this gif on it: All of this is neat. IMO.
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their Twitter account has been serving up even more incredible artwork https://twitter.com/thebirdunion/status/1633607335158644736?t=4N81EUWZuJYAjJPhaYcsDg&s=19 https://twitter.com/thebirdunion/status/1631379132658638848?t=c0vsi8_BHKEVMiqzcoctLw&s=19 https://twitter.com/thebirdunion/status/1625537768528003079?t=HMgJrISqqYEV_GEiGYeOEA&s=19
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mrmcd posted:TIL that the staff of the National Audubon Society have a union, but changed their name recently (because Audubon was super super racist and loved slavery and wrote a lot about how great slavery was) and now they are just called "Bird Union". And their website has this gif on it: Good, good, and good.
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We've got some collared doves nesting in our balcony roof and they're very sweet but completely hopeless at nest building. When they bring twigs they have like a 50/50 chance of dropping it before it makes it into their "nest", and each time they do so they knock several others off. Our balcony and terrace are now littered with little twigs. Sometimes we sweep them into a pile for the doves to pick up again. 
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thats the most complicated doves nest ive seen in five decades. its got at least 3 branches right?
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Carthag Tuek posted:thats the most complicated doves nest ive seen in five decades. its got at least 3 branches right? There's certainly at least 3 hanging off it, yes. It honestly seems like a serious evolutionary disadvantage, they spend so much time and energy failing to improve it. enjoyed this picture of a more minimalist dove nest: 
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It's crazy to me how some birds build these extremely sturdy weatherproof constructions of mud and sticks and grass, adhered strongly to whatever they're building on, sized perfectly for them and their babies, and lined with feathers and soft animal fur, and other birds just lay an egg on a railing and sit on it some of the time. What accounts for the difference??
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Sagebrush posted:It's crazy to me how some birds build these extremely sturdy weatherproof constructions of mud and sticks and grass, adhered strongly to whatever they're building on, sized perfectly for them and their babies, and lined with feathers and soft animal fur, There's not a simple answer to that question since it involves the evolutionary history of the bird, the relative investment they make in each nesting attempt, how their incubation and feeding relate to the predators that are out there, etc. Doves have relatively small clutch sizes and a really long breeding season so they don't need to invest that much in any one attempt.
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Pigeons breed year round, at least European ones do. So they basically flood the place with wave after wave of new pigeons. Plus they are big, beefy birds, so maybe predators just get too full from eating pigeons? Last year, I walked under a tree that had held a pigeon 'nest'. There was the most pathetic scattering of twigs on the ground, with a smashed egg in the middle. Compared to the grey crow nest in the tree outside my home, it barely qualifies as a nest at all - the crow nest was an absolutely gigantic conglomeration of pretty much every material possible, it was the result of at least 30 years of building work, and had been stolen many years earlier from a magpie clan. A big storm blew the nest down out of the tree a few years ago, and the crows were absolutely furious. They spent several days patrolling around the fallen nest making extremely threatening noises, and clearly trying to work out who had sabotaged their ancestral home. They built a new one, but it was painfully clear that they had gotten to crow middle-age without ever building a nest from scratch before, because it was kind of crappy. The babies kept falling out as soon as they started flying practice, because the new nest was like, the size of a studio flat compared to the country mansion dimensions of the old one.
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The investment theory makes sense on paper but if you watch them making a nest they aren't actually lazy, they are just very bad at it. I can see that nest from my desk and they spend all day grabbing twigs, dropping them halfway to the nest, dropping them when they reach the nest, putting them on the nest but scattering a bunch of others onto the floor etc. They constantly bring twigs that are clearly the wrong size and they don't try and pick the dropped ones up again, they go looking for new ones. Sometimes they return to the nest and seem to have forgotten to bring a twig!
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"Natural Selection" is the ultimate driver. They're exactly as good at nest-building as they need to be to perpetuate their species. It depends on the bird, its environment, and the number and types of predators it has to deal with. If there's a lot of competitive pressure, the lovely nestbuilders die off. If it doesn't matter, nests can be whatever.
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I think hummingbird nests are the best. Look at that. Perfectly sized for the bird. Firmly glued to the branch. Reinforced with spider webs and camouflaged with lichens. From any distance it just looks like a knot or a pinecone. Inside, so smooth and round and lined with the softest feathers. I want to curl up in there.  SO good. 
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I felt so bad when I finally had to clear the pigeon's next off my balcony when the construction crew got to my floor for restorations. I was able to wait until their last clutch grew up and went off on their own, but that evening when the parents got back to a completely bare balcony they kept staring at me all "what the HELL man, I thought we were cool". : ( Here's the last squab learning how to fly. http://burningjustice.net/img/flaps.mp4
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That's nice nest building and all but you get drunk on fermented nectar and you're not finding your way back home and now your date is going to dump you for the guy with all the swag at his place. Bower birds know how to rock it. Chicks dig blue stuff.  
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This makes me happy This does not make me so happy but I guess as long as the birb is happy...
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I think these are nests?  Pretty intricate, I don't remember what the guide said (if anything) but it could be by these guys, or maybe not. Anyway birb pretty  There are some more but I have to sort them out somehow
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 Someone brought their rooster to the barbershop near my place of work. I loved him and held him.
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I would like to love him and hold him too please.
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Sagebrush posted:I think hummingbird nests are the best. And because of the spider silk, the nest grows with the behbehs. I think it’s rad that they evolved to make elastic nests.
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A minimalist nest can be hard on parasites. Flea eggs and larva will just fall right out. A snug next like humming bird nest looks real comfy for larva. If pigeons keep having clutch after clutch in the same nest in the same year, then parasites might be more of a problem for them than a one clutch per year species. The third clutch would be hatching into a nest that is already heavily infested with parasites and could weaken the hatchlings. Presumably good protection from nest parasites like cuckoo birds. No way is Mrs. Cuckoo leaving her kids in a lovely pigeon nest.
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