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Regarde Aduck posted:Young gulls do this to other species. I've seen them doing the 'feed me' dance to a very unimpressed crow that just sat there staring at it. Young Red Tailed hawks do something similar. You can see them flying around in the late summer screaming their 'feed me' scream to any large bird that happens to be around. By this time, their parents are ignoring them. I've seen the one year mortality rate quoted anywhere between the mid-30 percent range to as high as 80%.
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I'm nowhere near the sea but there's a good population of gulls that migrate inland every summer to have babies on the roof of this one particular shopping centre in town. There's just multiple gangs of teenagers hanging around the parking lot right now, with adults vaguely keeping an eye on them, and it's so incredibly loud. Everyone is screaming at once. And fighting over the right to sit in puddles. (I love it.)
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Jul 12, 2023 17:41
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Everywhere I go in my town, there's constant screaming/whining/cheeping from all the baby birds  The rook babies have a very distinctive loud CAWWWW, the herring gulls have a sort of whiny eHeHeHeH, and the little blue tits, which seems to be in every single tree or bush, all say tchi-tchi. It's really nice, but the parents must be driven crazy.
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Jul 12, 2023 17:47
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I'm guessing based on the accent she's a tourist and didn't know the ironclad rule: Never feed the cockies.
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Jul 13, 2023 17:33
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mrmcd posted:I'm guessing based on the accent she's a tourist and didn't know the ironclad rule: Never feed the cockies. not seeing the downside tbh
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Jul 13, 2023 17:58
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Regarde Aduck posted:not seeing the downside tbh The downside is they start ripping bits off your house If it's not her house then I don't see the downside either
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Regarde Aduck posted:not seeing the downside tbh I made this mistake while visiting Syndey. I didn't even have food, just pretended like I did to lure them over for a closer look. Five minutes later I'm being mobbed, one is digging through my hair looking for any dropped seeds while another one tried to steal my watch.
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Plant MONSTER. posted:
Baby pigeons are so strange looking. They always look like they got covered in shiny paint or oil and need to be washed off.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Baby pigeons are so strange looking. They always look like they got covered in shiny paint or oil and need to be washed off. Yeah, they're all beak, eyes and feet. They look like they've been dipped in mod podge and rolled around in some hay So many huge thunderstorms this year, I was worried for them. There was even a tornado today which isn't really common here. I'm glad I was able to get home early enough to catch the hatching. I thought it would be a slower process. I was also surprised to see mom discard the egg shell far away from the nest because based on my reading, they tend to just leave trash in the nest and just sorta crap all around it until it turns into a cup.
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Jul 13, 2023 23:37
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With all this tiktok influencer talk about ice cream and gang-gang it's important to remember who the real gang-gang gang is. The gang-gang cockatoo.   
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More parrots https://i.imgur.com/Np5NOhO.mp4
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mobby_6kl posted:More parrots In my next life I would like to be a hyacinth macaw. Let me be large and soft and blue.
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RoboRodent posted:Let me be large and soft and blue. I am large and soft and it's not great. Maybe the secret is blue
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TaurusTorus posted:I am large and soft and it's not great. Maybe the secret is blue Just think, if they weren't blue, they'd just be known as "The Man Group."
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TaurusTorus posted:I am large and soft and it's not great. Maybe the secret is blue How's your plumage? Is your beak sturdy?
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Orphaned as a chick and raised by catbirds.
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 I just took this picture in my front yard (australian raven (the bird, not me)) and look how fancy he is. Look at that confident stride and those dinosaur feet. I wish him every success with his nest-building and hope he isn't just planning on poking sticks into electrical infrastructure.
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Jul 24, 2023 02:40
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Tree Bucket posted:
Infinite confidence. gently caress Death
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Quoth the raven: "gently caress your power supply" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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these two have sat here staring at me for like five minutes. they're watching me make this post.
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FBS posted:these two have sat here staring at me for like five minutes. they're watching me make this post. They're thinking "we could probably lay an egg on that person's head. Maybe add two or three twigs first for safety"
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 that's gonna make for a hell of a pellet if he swallows it whole e: yup its a baby turtle FBS has a new favorite as of 04:36 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Does that owl have a young alligator snapping turtle?
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oh my gosh don't post photos of me wearing a skirt
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marilyn monrowl
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That owl is either wearing thermal leggings or fluffy pantaloons
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Acorn woodpeckers are ridiculous little birds.
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Imagine being able to see in every drirection at once
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Frequent reader, rare poster, but I got a phone with a better camera so maybe more often. https://imgur.com/7GrRciC.mp4 Yellow wattlebird in Tasmania. We got the red ones back home but this dude's fat and got way bigger wattles.
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