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There are a lot of birds called robins that are not very closely related. They're all passerines, but many are in totally different families. Because early bird namers were just like "red belly? Must be a robin."
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When you consider how much animal taxonomy has had to be reorganized in the last 50 years, the people who came up with common names probably shouldn't be judged too harshly
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Mar 31, 2023 10:01
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...they really are dinosaurs, aren't they
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Stolen from schad thread: https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1641682417659572226
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Mar 31, 2023 17:42
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Sound https://i.imgur.com/cqqpUmD.mp4 Sound but not important https://i.imgur.com/EAOmOIz.mp4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgAgrkcqW4
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Now she’s hosed. They know where she lives. They’re just gonna hang around and gently caress with the kookaburras and magpies she plays with.
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Round Robin https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rqn7gv2a5G1wojf3q.mp4
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Apr 2, 2023 18:58
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A beautiful roundie puddin 
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https://i.imgur.com/1YBHgfu.mp4
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Stealing this, from the Schadenfdreude thread of all places: https://i.imgur.com/9NhrrJj.mp4
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SubponticatePoster posted:Stolen from schad thread: So that's what "lol" sounds like in penguin.
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https://i.imgur.com/RWAyhWs.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/Ynk4W1P.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/Nnjz2As.mp4 This one is eating a fish so skip it if you like fish and think they should be our friends too https://i.imgur.com/IyrbFOn.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/KRaQo8X.mp4 mobby_6kl has a new favorite as of 19:53 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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Apr 5, 2023 19:49
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first of all, i love shoebills secondly, that's a giant fish thirdly, it's good that they're getting some salad with their protein, fiber is important to your diet and greens provide good nutrition!
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https://twitter.com/Jen_Tuyet/status/1409836058980716548
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Magpies being magpies: https://i.imgur.com/dKkxGRb.mp4
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https://i.imgur.com/A0gVr28.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/H6jyh0X.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/ITvax3V.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/YAS0lUz.mp4 mobby_6kl has a new favorite as of 01:10 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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Those hands though. Birb based domestic abuse.
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Oh wow you're right. Are those birb or cat injuries though? https://i.imgur.com/7d4srjU.mp4
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DarklyDreaming posted:Magpies being magpies: what a bad fence!
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Yeah like do they do that three times a day or what
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I'm on a boat and the geese have us surrounded: Like a low-budget Norfolk version of Jurassic Park:  Clever girl...  Now they're going for the ropes. If you don't hear from me again it's because they've learnt how to undo the mooring lines!
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Halloween Jack posted:Yeah like do they do that three times a day or what Offhand, they look like juvenile magpies, and they are very clever, and very imitative birds. Hopefully, they will all remember that playing with that fence is bad and dangerous, and they'll tell their chicks about it, and no-one else will get stuck. https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rqn7gv2a5G1wojf3q.mp4 Robins are one of the perfect beauties of winter in this part of the world. Most birds stop singing in winter, but robins have this most beautiful, thin, cold little song that persists for the whole season, like a stream that is close to freezing, but never does. Pookah has a new favorite as of 20:59 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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I liked the robin post. It's autumn here in Australia, and the birds in the local forests are putting on absurd amounts of weight ahead of winter. Lookit these little orb dudes. I love them  grey fantail  eastern yellow robin  speckled warbler (possibly the most bird-name-ish bird name ever)  double barred finch Pookah posted:Robins are one of the perfect beauties of winter in this part of the world. Most birds stop singing in winter, but robins have this most beautiful, thin, cold little song that persists for the whole season, like a stream that is close to freezing, but never does. What a wonderful thing to write! BalloonFish posted:I'm on a boat and the geese have us surrounded: My horrible kids appreciated this post.
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^^ Thank you! ^^ it's an image I've had in my mind for a very long time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_JJKMCiYM Just a sweet trickle of lovely music in the depths of winter.
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I can definitely hear that in it Thank you for sharing that!
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Pookah posted:Offhand, they look like juvenile magpies, and they are very clever, and very imitative birds. Hopefully, they will all remember that playing with that fence is bad and dangerous, and they'll tell their chicks about it, and no-one else will get stuck. I dunno. The first one went right back to the fence the second it was freed. If I was a magpie and all my friends were stuck in that fence so eagerly, I would try it out too. But honestly, how does that even happen? Did the owner spray that fence with magpie pheromones to attract all the magpies in the area, or is this Hitchcock situation where 300 more lurk off camera.
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I can't find any recording of it, but European Robins have another, extremely secret, quiet song that they sing to their mate/potential mate, when they are very close to each other. It's very lovely too, but incredibly quiet, you can only hear it from 2-3 feet away. Their fledglings do a sort of echo-location thing, where they say "peep" increasingly rapidly as the parent gets closer, then they make a hilarious FIZZZ noise when they get fed. I wuv Robins.
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cant cook creole bream posted:I dunno. The first one went right back to the fence the second it was freed. If I was a magpie and all my friends were stuck in that fence so eagerly, I would try it out too. Clever birds can be extremely dumb when they are young. I remember when we had a huge number of young starlings in the garden ( I know they aren't corvids, but intelligence-wise, they are similar), and one of them found a crack in the garden wall, and had a look at it, and I swear, 30-40 young starlings queued up to look at this one crack. There was nothing there, there never was, but they all had to check for themselves.
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Pookah posted:Clever birds can be extremely dumb when they are young. Ah, that's hilarious! Dumb starlings! They looked in the crack! Wait... ...how do you know there was nothing in the crack? 
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It's a bird, dude. It knows what's good.
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as a counterpoint to the elegance in that video, here's one I took of a puffin in strong wind https://i.imgur.com/ROis4ey.mp4
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https://twitter.com/c0nc0rdance/status/1645945393748885505 Some of the info is not quite right but yes, there are poisonous birds out there.
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Winklebottom posted:as a counterpoint to the elegance in that video, here's one I took of a puffin in strong wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGdVSvsiaOk
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ultrafilter posted:https://twitter.com/c0nc0rdance/status/1645945393748885505 That bird has the perfect "I warned you bro!!!" face Ariong posted:Ah, that's hilarious! Dumb starlings! They looked in the crack! If 30-40 starlings don't find anything after having a good old stare, there is definitely, absolutely nothing there. It was right at the bottom of the wall too, so each and every one of them had to do a little crouch to peek in and it was 100% adorable. Pookah has a new favorite as of 20:34 on Apr 13, 2023 |
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Are you telling me I can get high on birds?
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