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[Diet Coke 4 Life]

I love African Gray Parrots.

Me too.

Just returned from vacation and learned from my bird-sitter that the Gray in my house, henceforth known as Emperor Featherbutt of Assholio, has taught the mockingbirds that live on this /entire street/ to make laser 'pew-pew' sounds every morning at 5AM.

He also missed me and my goblin, so he was mimicking my goblin screaming every other day around noon. Now that we're back, he just calls the goblin's name and calls said goblin a 'good bird' until goblin goes upstairs to gift him peanuts.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Definitely more doveness. New birb (or that same one) has laid egg in nest.

update:

The mombird is still there, and there's at least one really little dove.

 

[AbyssStarer]

Have you guys heard of the initiative to get rid of all eponymous bird names? If it ends up happening, it's going to be so confusing to switch to using all the new names.

I heard about this when it was first announced a few years ago. It's a silly anti racism initiative (because some of the names were of southern slave owners) made to push more bird books on people which will only result in confusion. Not planning on honoring it if they do ever push it through.

 

[Um...]

Me too.

Just returned from vacation and learned from my bird-sitter that the Gray in my house, henceforth known as Emperor Featherbutt of Assholio, has taught the mockingbirds that live on this /entire street/ to make laser 'pew-pew' sounds every morning at 5AM.

He also missed me and my goblin, so he was mimicking my goblin screaming every other day around noon. Now that we're back, he just calls the goblin's name and calls said goblin a 'good bird' until goblin goes upstairs to gift him peanuts.

I’d love to see a video of him.

 

[Diet Coke 4 Life]

I’d love to see a video of him.

I've tried on multiple occassions, but Emperor Featherbutt just clamps his beak shut as soon as he sees cameras. He's a punk like that.

I might be able to stand outside and record the 'pew-pew' noises, though. Gives me a project. Will have to see what I can manage over the course of the week.

 

[Arbiter]

I heard about this when it was first announced a few years ago. It's a silly anti racism initiative (because some of the names were of southern slave owners) made to push more bird books on people which will only result in confusion. Not planning on honoring it if they do ever push it through.

Yeah they already changed McCown's Longspur to Thick-billed Longspur in 2020 because McCown was a Confederate general. He wasn't even a slave owner, and most of the remaining eponymous bird names have nothing to do with slave owners either. I was hoping they could be appeased and stop after changing McCown's, but it seems like the AOS is going to go ahead with renaming 152 NA birds. I don't know if they will change them all at once or do it in a sort of gradual rollout. It will be very annoying because everything official, like eBird and the USGS Bird Banding Lab, follow AOS. It's going to make research and data analysis more annoying. I don't want an unnecessary new name and code for Cooper's Hawk. I want it to forever be COHA. And Wilson's Warbler? No more WIWA? So sad. Who knows though, maybe there is still hope that they won't go along with it after all.

 

[Mac Monster]

Yeah they already changed McCown's Longspur to Thick-billed Longspur in 2020 because McCown was a Confederate general. He wasn't even a slave owner, and most of the remaining eponymous bird names have nothing to do with slave owners either.

The only reason they're changing these bird names is because of nigger worship, since having birds named after people is apparently racist. It's so incredibly stupid, and most importantly, it won't work at all. People have been using these names for hundreds of years, and they're not going to stop just because some faggy organization told them to.

 

[Um...]

Me too.

Just returned from vacation and learned from my bird-sitter that the Gray in my house, henceforth known as Emperor Featherbutt of Assholio, has taught the mockingbirds that live on this /entire street/ to make laser 'pew-pew' sounds every morning at 5AM.

He also missed me and my goblin, so he was mimicking my goblin screaming every other day around noon. Now that we're back, he just calls the goblin's name and calls said goblin a 'good bird' until goblin goes upstairs to gift him peanuts.

Here’s one owned by a Brit. He speaks with a british accent.

 

[anliteralidiot]

Goose ASMR

 

[The Mighty Banth]

Goose ASMR

Are those cotton patch geese??

 

[anliteralidiot]

Are those cotton patch geese??

I think the female is? The gander looks more like some kind of white chinese goose? (look at the beluga lump on this guy!)


I just did some light searching for hybrid geese, and found this adorable backyard chickens thread* where OP documented the goslings between a female canadian, and a male toulouse. Their babies were reportedly all sterile, but they're so pretty!


I love geese, they're so chubby and cute....
*archive

 

[Diet Coke 4 Life]

Huge thunderstorm today (Emperor Featherbutt is just screeching at the thunder - nothing funny to record).

The wild birds are making efforts to visit the yard, though. And as the winds decimated my bird feeder by emptying it all over the ground, they're having a grand ol' time (will have to sweep up later to keep the squirrel invasion to a minimum).

Potato phone strikes again. Sorry for the piss quality.

ETA: Just including a little vid of the shit noises he's making. He clams up as soon as he sees a camera, so stealth-sliding the phone on the floor to the door of his room while his favorite commercial was playing on the radio and the thunder's rumbling outside was the only way to capture some of his inane sounds. (This is a tiny sample of daily parrot noises, but he only is vocal at dawn, at dusk, when his light turns off and during storms - otherwise, he's an eerily silent bird. Unless he's begging for peanuts. Or wolf whistling while I'm trying to fucking cycle. Or making grunting noises at people when they're lifting weights in the workout room his cage is in.)

Spoiler: video file because I'm too fucking lazy to pull the audio from it. Turn on the volume. There's no picture.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Turns out there were 2 babies. Saw both babies earlier in daytime, but just now at night they're already gone and the nest is empty again. That mombird left before then BTW.

 

[Anonitolia]

making grunting noises at people when they're lifting weights in the workout room his cage is in

he’s trying to play along!

 

[Um...]

Here’s a cheeky bird that says ELLO

with an Aussie accent

 

[Most Wanted Banana]

Just a chill fella

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

Caught a bird going to fucking war with its own reflection in a rearview mirror:

 

[Yellow Rose Of Texas]

 

[Let it burn to fuckin ash]

They may have been already offered but for those who want a little bit of a broken heart but can't stand not knowing more about birds, Wesley the Owl and Alex and Me are books that even my kids read. I imagine I am sentimental as fuck but each of them were lovely. Each of them were perfect stories and in hindsight remind me of The Soul of and Octopus in how attached i got to both Wesley and Alex.

Any other bird books that anyone can recommend along those lines?

*edited for words.

 

[Cardinal Cardinal]

They may have been already offered but for those who want a little bit of a broken heart but can't stand not knowing more about birds, Wesley the Owl and Alex and Me are books that even my kids read. I imagine I am sentimental as fuck but each of them were lovely. Each of them were perfect stories and in hindsight remind me of The Soul of and Octopus in how attached i got to both Wesley and Alex.

Any other bird books that anyone can recommend along those lines?

*edited for words.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18162367-sammy-the-crow-who-remembered

I'm not sure if it's the same one but I've had a memory of this book since 4th grade. Back when kids read books and you'd go through those Scholastic catalogs in class and get the books like a month later.