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Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO4UaLG0zY8

parrots love you

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Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Birds don't take poo poo from Sir David Attenborough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TJaNDBI87s

Sir David getting Kanye'd as gently caress

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Marnie is if like someone made a cartoon kid's show about a really nice parrot and then it somehow came to life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEf144hcmZ4

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Kikka posted:

pretty sure you get hitlers speech from december 11th 1941 when you slow this down
have you met a cockatoo???

it's not a stretch

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhjbazNuqvs

cockatiels just want to sing to you because you're a pretty bird yes you are

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

The Brown Menace posted:

they permanently have a facial expression like they are utterly aghast and horrified at the concept of life
sounds like someone hasn't been around cockatiels :derptiel: They just look like wall-eyed idiots.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
This is the buff faced pygmy parrot, they are the smallest known parrot unless they found another one I haven't heard about :



They're around 3.5 inches long :3:

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
beep beep everybody on the budgie train



like other birds parrots grow from eggs



some parrots grow up to be hard motherfuckers

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Spun Dog posted:

Don't let Zimmerman see that bird.
It's not a gun bro it's just my cell phone

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Harald posted:

im a bird
are you this bird?

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
you live by the streets

you die by the streets

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
:toot: :toot:

don't gently caress with birds man they got guns



and tiny macbooks

Tendai fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Sep 23, 2015

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Pawn 17 posted:

I bet those bird owners are constantly cleaning up poo poo EVERYWHERE.
Parrots are incredibly prolific shitters, it's true.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

the great deceiver posted:

its like having a hyperactive 2 year old with a razor sharp beak that will get freaked out by ghosts and runs around screaming and making GBS threads at least five times a day
I wish we could rename the bird thread in PI this

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
I think part of the fascination with parrot intelligence is that they ARE so alien to us. Humans can on some level relate to primates because we are primates. Parrots are an entirely different sort of being; little left-over dinosaur things that have shown fairly startling cognitive abilities in some species.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-bbbbiiiiiirds

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

RaceBannon posted:

peacocks roam wild near you? thatd be the coolest pest species
this is not true

Peacocks are the most annoying screaming shitbirds. Parrots scream but at least they're smart too, peacocks don't even have that, they're just shrieking retards.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Al Borland posted:

crows are legit one of my favorite birds. They are hilarious pranksters too, I've seen them make cats fight each other before lol.
There's a magpie around here (I think it's just one, I've never seen more than one at once) that loving DELIGHTS in taunting my cat. It'll hop around on the ground, drag a little, hop, drag as she sneaks closer and closer to it when we're outside. It lets her get riiiight to the point of crouching down and then flies up onto a fencepost and yells in what sounds like triumph. It's pretty great.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

etalian posted:

Best crow research story is when researchers wearing nixon masks attacked and annoyed certain crows.
I once watched a really weird gay porn from Germany that was bored sex interspersed with naked guys riding around on bikes in what looked like a park, wearing rubber Nixon masks. Now I'm kind of hoping they're related.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
cockatiels are the best parrot and anyone who says otherwise is a liar and probably a terrorist :derptiel:

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Nathilus posted:

Cockatiels really are awesome. Smarter and with greater longevity than budgies, not too much louder, and not nearly as malevolently crazy as bigger parrots. :derptiel:
Smart enough to be entertaining, just dumb enough to be managed is how I always think of Judah. He'll be brilliant about something but then have zero sense of object permanence for things that he just saw being covered by paper, for example.

Parrots, man. They're not for everyone but they're fuckin' great.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Marnie wants you to know that he loves you. All of you. Even the idiot cockatiels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95vR_DFbgQc

"Cute! Gimme a kiss! Whee!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNEZgOV5jjc

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Usually I think goons overexaggerate but I have literally never been around a goose that wasn't a biting, hissing, territorial rear end in a top hat.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Did you know even cockatoos hate doing the dishes

it's a fact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fphSfjShySI

But don't worry, Gotcha isn't mad that you made him do the dishes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg4xnZhVq1E

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1nAR86Vd8

squeekbirb

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Despite what many people think the parrot is just like you and me for example they go shopping:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfhlPEkNm7o

They enjoy classical music:



They play games:



They love America:



and some of them even join the military to protect our freedom:



(some parrots are no good fuckin skateboard punks though as seen in figure a)

figure a:

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
please do not give a parrot coffee as it can kill them :smith:

besides they prefer a fun tropical cocktail:

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
let's learn some more about the parrot, a friend to you and me



just like us, some parrots care about their health



but that doesn't stop them from being gourmands



there are many famous parrot movies



rumors of a nefarious budgie cabal are unfounded and not ever true and you shouldn't talk about them



we know where u live mate



u can never hide

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

EXTREME INSERTION posted:

Only bird I ever had was a pet bantam house chicken who would lay eggs in my lap
Despite having had parrots around me almost all my life, the idea of a house chicken still strikes me as the most adorably bizarre thing :3:

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

A Stupid Baby posted:

This thread makes me want to get a cockatoo or a crow but I doubt it would get along with my dog.

Bird q: Why do birds do such spastic jerky movements when not doing anything? When they're hopping around they move at normal speed but when they're just looking around they jerk so fast you can barely see them move.
Cockatoos are basically shrieking, destructive, very intelligent 3 year olds. I would say most experienced parrot owners can't even handle one ideally in terms of its mental health and needs, they are hard birds. Befriend someone with a juvenile one though because for the first couple years all they want to do is cuddle and that part is pretty great.

I THINK I read that the movements have something to do with being prey animals. Like it's tied into why pigeons bob their heads or something? But I'm probably half-remembering some old National Geographic article.

Millie posted:

I don't have many pictures of him because he hates having his picture taken. If he sees you aim anything in his general direction, he turns into a ball of rage. He kisses me on the lips tho :3
Dang that is an old man conure :3: Judah the cockatiel is affectionate as hell but he harbors a deep distrust of anything in my hands and that includes cameras so catching him in a way that isn't a blur or an angry :derptiel: right in the lens is difficult.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

EXTREME INSERTION posted:

This sounds strange but she was actually a really beautiful chicken. Look up "bantam Belgian d'uccle Mille fleur"
Oh hey, chickam lady has some of those or had I think. I remember seeing them. They are pretty chickens :3: Just, house-chicken still makes me giggle.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Sheep-Goats posted:

Best starter bird is cockateil because it is a good bird but doesn't live forever and doesn't require a day care center to not be depressed. It might not get along with your dog though. Also it might decide it loves your dog and wants to be with it forever.
Cockatiels are definitely lower maintenance parrots and also they're adorably dumb about everything except for the things that they're creepily smart about.

They are also very flirtatious. Judah would like you to come into the bedroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12b-t_aZwMA

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Budgies are pretty cool. My first pet that was "mine" as a kid were two budgies named Larry Bird and Chiquita, who in turn begat two paralyzed children named Helicopter and Pegleg, the latter of whom lived for years and then passed away overnight in his food dish, eating :911:

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Frog Act posted:

this thread is fantastic but now youtube thinks i'm some kind of extreme bird fan
At one point between the bird threads and the Islam thread my recommendations were a combination of dudes reciting the Qur'an and cockatoos doing funny poo poo, it was sort of weird.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
I have never personally met a lovebird that wasn't an rear end in a top hat, though I am assured by the PI bird thread that they exist

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Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

SmokaDustbowl posted:

birds can gently caress off

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