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Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Phanatic posted:

Is that chicken soup?

That's sick.

That’s not how that works!!!!!!!!

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Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Pookah posted:

Looks like a raven to me, or maybe a carrion crow? The beak length and shape look very raven-y anyway. The standard british crow is a rook isn't it? It's definitely not a rook.

I'd say our "standard" crow is the Carrion crow. Bigger than a jackdaw, smaller than a raven. Rooks are there but not in the same numbers.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Nuevo posted:

Actually a moth, but it's doing its darndedst to look like a hummingbird.

That's a bird.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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They're birds.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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edit: the above post already handled it

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Interesting theme you have here.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Ghost Leviathan posted:

Peacocks are sometimes kept as pets in goddamn Australia, one roadhouse on the drive up to Uluru has some just roaming around.

Isn't that semi-common in most countries? A lot of expensive houses in the UK tend to have them.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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A Sometimes Food posted:

They also use that hole for sex and frankly the sex hole being shared with (or adjacent to) the piss hole in humans is bad enough. Mixing poo poo in there as well seems like a bad time.

Oh boy

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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aww yis!

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Someone illegally introduce bluejays to the UK

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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People hate Starlings?

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Ah. See this is why you need to send the Blue Jays. For revenge.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Yeah I don’t trust people who jump at the chance to get their murder on for ‘ecological reasons’. It would require a systemic approach, not weirdos with BB guns.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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I. M. Gei posted:

then let’s do the systemic approach?

Good luck.

I don't mean this of course. I will, in fact, laugh as they get smarter and smarter, start constructing ever more complex weaponry before bringing the fight to you.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Facebook Aunt posted:

Imagine the day she runs out of crackers tho. Those birbs will ruin her poo poo.

*tastes human* close enough!

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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is this the same picture but with distortion removed?

what's going on here? i looked really hard at both pictures until i felt sick

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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A e s t h e t i c

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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RoboRodent posted:

I don't know why owls got the reputation for being smart. They all look very "no thoughts, head empty" to me.

lucky

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Pookah posted:

I'm guessing it's because Athena was traditionally accompanied by an owl and she was the goddess of wisdom. I just looked it up and they don't really know why the association of Athena/owl started though.

Possibly a link to Ishtar/Inanna of Sumer? She's like one of the earliest goddess's and I assume she might have inspired following myths. Ishtar was sometimes depicted flanked by owls.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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he looks shell shocked to me

seen a few bad winters

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Popoto posted:

A crow just yelled in it’s ear.

gently caress it does look a bit like that bird

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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rofl at birds

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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:gbsmith:

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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UK North Wales feeder:

JACKDAWS, JACKDAWS EVERYWHERE, SEND HELP

nooooo those are for the little birds stooooopppppppp!


~aaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

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Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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birds are so good

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Inceltown posted:

New Zealanders like to brag about how destructive the Kia is but that bird is only destructive in adolescence. Sulfies will evolve a way to have rail guns on their egg shells at some point in the not too distant future for no evolutionary need - just to wreck poo poo.

we had it coming

we sooooo had it coming

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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goldcrests are weird but cool because they don't give a gently caress how close you get to them and they're really tiny

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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edit: i've had to rewrite this post about 5 times and i think i'm having a braindamaged day, it'll pass. That is to say: those australian bastards will pay for their ornithological crimes

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Oct 19, 2012

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I do wonder what most goons do that gets them into so much trouble with geese

i've never had problems with them and i think most non-goons just hate all the goose poo poo rather than the constant fear of being attacked

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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just imagining the evolutionary pathway where the variants that had the females all falling off their branches was the one that survived more

nature is majestic

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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love how the gull is angry

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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that's too long

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Inceltown posted:

You can't have a chad bush turkey without the incel bush turkey creeping on chickens. Nature just doesn't work that way.

he looks very hansom to me and just needs some confidence

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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it's a tiny fairy dragon, ignore whatever those dorks say

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Winklebottom posted:

from a few days back, but note that the australian magpie belongs to a different bird family (Artamidae) than the eurasian/american magpies (Corvidae). Australian magpies were named for their likeness to the magpies back in europe.



Also as a neat coincidence they seem to be smart even though they're not corvids

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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great pictures

F for the blackcap

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Inceltown posted:

God drat it lady. It's pronounced like "cook a burra" not "kook".

they're the same

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Sagebrush posted:

I would say it's not 100% correct in that it implies a more restrictive specialization than there is in reality. For instance, there are thousands of species of birds that eat fruit but only one that looks like a toucan. And hummingbird beaks are specialized for drinking nectar, yes, but they also regularly catch and eat insects.

As a general guide it's fairly accurate though. Where are the ducks and the parrots?

Excommunicated for crimes against birbdom

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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lord funk posted:

I finally just saw my first ones here in China and I flipped out. They are so freaking cool.



we get them in some places in the UK, i assume they keep escaping from someones private collection

haven't seen one in a few years though

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Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Tunicate posted:

Merlin is a North American bird.

was confused because we get them in Wales but i checked and they have a gigantic range. its like the fuckers can fly :thunk:

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