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I saw 4 adult geese herding a bunch of tiny geese today. Do geese mix up/combine their children?
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May 8, 2024 22:33
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I wouldn't be at all surprised, geese are very clever and very good guardians. There was a duck throuple living outside my brotherses' (gay couple - 1 brother, 1 brother -in-law) house, which was 2 drakes and a duck, and they successfully raised many families over the years.
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May 8, 2024 22:39
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Apparently ducks will even fight over ducklings and they'll follow the winner. More ablative adopted siblings improve your own offspring's odds, apparently.
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May 9, 2024 01:46
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Apparently ducks will even fight over ducklings and they'll follow the winner. More ablative adopted siblings improve your own offspring's odds, apparently. apropos of nothing else, if resources aren't an issue, more in a group is strictly better in terms of fitness because it means a predator might pick a not-your-chick
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May 9, 2024 01:54
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Dunno about ducks but studies show that magpies growing up in larger groups are smarter, too. Exercising those social brainmeats
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May 9, 2024 04:07
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They are Canada (Canadian?) geese if it matters. Little loving dinosaurs that both don't give af and are mean af. I walk past them (the adult herd, the little babies are new  ) on my way to and from work every day. The big ones hiss at me every day and I'm afraid to look at them cause I don't wanna seem threatening.E: Can I tell if these are boygeese or girlgeese by looking at them from afar? 
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May 9, 2024 13:04
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Canada Goose is the correct term, "Canadian" is a misnomer Unless you watch Letterkenny, in which case it's Canada Gooses
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May 9, 2024 13:56
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DarkHorse posted:it's Canada Gooses 
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May 9, 2024 14:40
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I ran into a group of polyamorous geese with a collection of goslings at the lake last year, actually. Two pairs, it looked like. Canada geese are hard to sex by eye, but if one is noticeably bigger than the other, that's probably a gander.
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May 9, 2024 16:39
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I miss trying to touch the baby geese and having to dodge angry mom. No, I'm not afraid of geese. It's a bird.
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May 9, 2024 17:17
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The insides of their mouths are like scary little razors though E: met this friend in the park a couple years ago 
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May 9, 2024 22:22
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I'm less scared of getting maimed by one but by getting chased by one and stepping into their MASSIVE POOPS. I have to carefully walk around their poops because they poop everywhere and they're so big and plenty.
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May 9, 2024 22:27
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Yeah, the only problem with geese at the local lakes is that they love to poo poo along the shoreline.
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May 9, 2024 22:31
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The particular path pictured below is a poo poo and hiss gauntlet of a 4' wide path with drops into stinky marsh directly off to each side It's worth it to see the babies and the herons and egrets that frequent that part of the park tho
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May 9, 2024 22:40
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I used to love sitting in the brush near this little basin of water. The geese and their babies would sometimes cut through the brush where I'd sit. I kept hoping the ducks would do the same with their babies so I could sneak a close up pic but I've never had such luck. But that experience is what set off my bird craziness! So cute!
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May 9, 2024 23:57
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One of my exes had an uncle who lost a ball to a goose. It got him from behind, and ruptured it through the pants. 
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May 10, 2024 12:47
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babby sounds https://streamable.com/0u7hro Captain Log posted:One of my exes had an uncle who lost a ball to a goose. It got him from behind, and ruptured it through the pants. jesus wept and probably that uncle
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May 10, 2024 13:36
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A pigeon couple has been trying to build a nest in the scaffold right outside my kitchen window for two days. They have still not managed to make one single twig stay in place, and at this rate I'm worried that the female will just dump an egg from two meters up, down into the pile of dropped twigs.
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May 10, 2024 14:02
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nielsm posted:A pigeon couple has been trying to build a nest in the scaffold right outside my kitchen window for two days. They have still not managed to make one single twig stay in place, and at this rate I'm worried that the female will just dump an egg from two meters up, down into the pile of dropped twigs. I saw on instagram someone zip tied a fry basket (those plastic things you get a serving of fried food in) to where a Robin was trying and failing to build a nest, you could do something like that
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May 10, 2024 14:11
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DarkHorse posted:I saw on instagram someone zip tied a fry basket (those plastic things you get a serving of fried food in) to where a Robin was trying and failing to build a nest, you could do something like that I don't think the construction workers would be happy about that, tbh.
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May 10, 2024 14:29
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The rock dove doesn't really understand the point of a nest much, their natural nesting grounds are cliffside nooks.
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May 10, 2024 15:13
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egg on branch
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May 10, 2024 15:18
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The rock dove doesn't really understand the point of a nest much, their natural nesting grounds are cliffside nooks. Yes! The twig is there to keep the egg from rolling away. 
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May 10, 2024 15:34
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The pigeons from last year are back. She originally laid an egg in my potted coleus. I moved her egg and she just stared at while sitting in my plant. I made her her own planter with dirt to sit on. Her husband has been grabbing these leather strips from someone else's balcony! But the bad news is, the city will be apparently doing work on our balconies and they care little for pigeons. I've been told they will probably be destroyed... so I shouldn't get attached. I hate it.
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May 10, 2024 15:36
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Plant MONSTER. posted:The pigeons from last year are back. She originally laid an egg in my potted coleus. 
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May 10, 2024 15:49
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HungryMedusa posted:The particular path pictured below is a poo poo and hiss gauntlet of a 4' wide path with drops into stinky marsh directly off to each side Yes I recognize all the black spots on the path as being geese poo poo lol. The first time I started walking this way to/from work I thought that it was all dog poo poo. There's an apartment complex nearby and I thought all the dog owners here were just inconsiderate assholes. Took me a few days to realize that the shits were from the geese because I didn't realize their poo poo was so big. ANYWAY I just saw there's another bird thread. Is that one the one I should be posting about wild birds in or
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May 10, 2024 16:28
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nielsm posted:A pigeon couple has been trying to build a nest in the scaffold right outside my kitchen window for two days. They have still not managed to make one single twig stay in place, and at this rate I'm worried that the female will just dump an egg from two meters up, down into the pile of dropped twigs.
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May 10, 2024 16:51
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 Have some Tinky, who is just loving life and chilling. Today he and Tux went off to Birdy Boarding so they can socialise a bit with other birds while we're away for a few days.
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May 14, 2024 09:02
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bee posted:
i love him
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May 14, 2024 11:23
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 She mad floofin'.
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May 19, 2024 14:01
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Captain Log posted:
such majesty
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May 19, 2024 14:22
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https://i.imgur.com/uvIZDKL.mp4
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May 20, 2024 02:45
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my birds would just be inside the bag
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May 20, 2024 06:24
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titty_baby_ posted:my birds would just be inside the bag
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May 20, 2024 12:46
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titty_baby_ posted:my birds would just be inside the bag
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May 20, 2024 14:12
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Worst hormone year I can remember and. Ow they're molting like crazy. Please help. I dont think I'll survive their attitudes or the mountains of fluff and feathers Also Peanut would totally be in the bag
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May 23, 2024 10:48
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It's a particularly bad year here too. I can't touch Mochi at all any more, only my husband, and he screams constantly at top volume if we're both in the room (but if one of us goes to the bedroom it's fine...) and refuses to be redirected. It's been a very trying period, this is probably the worst we've ever dealt with and I am very bitten and deafened and feeling pretty defeated. I am trying to be as patient as possible but it seems like all steps lately have been backwards and it's hard not to feel discouraged.
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May 23, 2024 14:23
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I'm very fortunate in having gay married cockatiels, because I just give them some plastic eggs in a shoebox and let them co-parent. They snapped out of it yesterday. They were just suddenly done with the eggs. Sera needed to be redirected a little for me to remove them, but once he couldn't see them, he was calm. I almost wish I could get them a fertilized egg.
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May 23, 2024 14:51
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speaking of spring baby that’s not how that works 
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mediaphage posted:speaking of spring How do you tell all the green babies apart?
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