THE BIRD THREAD - Post birds, discuss birds or even sniff birds.

[SuiSui1]

 

[A Grey Cat]

The thread headline says sniff birds and honestly with owls I kinda wanna do that...I mean just look at how soft and fluffy their down looks

I also love how this one has an "mhh yesd human you may pet me, I'll allow this." It's no wonder owls are often made out to be wise but also a little smug or full itf themselves when given human like traits. As the comments on this channel say owls are just birds running on cat software.

 

[SuiSui1]

to warm the soul

 

[Xerxes IX]

Pleasantly surprised to see so many owls in here.

This is the Tawny Owl, the Spotted and Barred Owls' European cousin:

The babies are cute too, they look like little needle felted figures

 

[SuiSui1]

 

[XYZpdq]

random bird encounters
some guy on a pole in somebody's back yard

local vulture enjoying dinner

 

[SuiSui1]

still beautiful

 

[Ducky!]

Baby peacocks

They make noises that sound oddly human like. I was at a zoo once and there was a peacock that sounded like it was screaming “HELP!” over and over

 

[SuiSui1]

They make noises that sound oddly human like. I was at a zoo once and there was a peacock that sounded like it was screaming “HELP!” over and over

If I can remember the bird from Pixar's "Up" had the same sound.

 

[XYZpdq]

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They make noises that sound oddly human like. I was at a zoo once and there was a peacock that sounded like it was screaming “HELP!” over and over

I have lived in range of weirdos who kept peacocks. It's uncannily like "Lemme out!"
by this point I now have to assume peacocks are part of the pizzagate childrape saucerdemons

 

[Picnic_Boy]

I saw a mated pair of kildeer trying to scare away cars today. Their nests are so vulnerable, my heart goes out to the tricky little guys.

 

[SuiSui1]

 

[XYZpdq]

I saw a mated pair of kildeer trying to scare away cars today. Their nests are so vulnerable, my heart goes out to the tricky little guys.

back when I lived with my parents one time some burrowing owls made a nest in front of the house
I was all "dawwwww cute owls"
then I saw the day one of them had killed something, dragged it to the front of their burrow, and made the dead body its new perch
I was all "uhh. damn, brah."

 

[mr.moon1488]

Crows are the chads of the bird world.

Can figure out how to accomplish complex tasks.

Can observe and learn from the mistakes of others.

Can understand scientific concepts such as water displacement

Can understand concepts such as gift-giving and paying debts.

 

[Dilligaff]

Hey kiwi art types, there's a #birbtober list on Instagram here if you wanna try it!



Edit: added list pic

 

[SuiSui1]

a duel of needles

 

[A Grey Cat]

This time of year always makes me think of crows and ravens. Who are actually smarter and cuter than you think they can even mimic human speech

If owls are cats in bird Bodies then crows are definitely the black cats of the avian world. A bad rep due to old superstitions and occasion with death and the macabre.

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

Crows are the chads of the bird world.

They're incredibly intelligent. There is that subspecies IRCC in New Zealand that are divided by living on different islands. They all use the same tools for picking grubs out of termite mounds, but the colonies since the islands separated have adapted different methods for making the hooking sticks and therefore make them in different styles.


Unrelated.
My birds have a chick at the moment, I'm looking forward to meeting the little guy once's he's fully feathered and out and about.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Yeah, there's even a lot of evidence that they're capable of future planning which is something that was thought to only be present in great apes and humans. They did an experiment on Hawaiian Crows (which are extinct in the wild) and they were able to recognize that they would need a certain length stick to get a food reward out of a container, and they then went out and modified sticks to be just the right length. Granted in this case I think there may have been some unnatural selection. Hawaiian Crows went extinct in the wild after heavy urbanization of the islands, and the breeding program grabbed up survivors well after the population took a massive dive. I'd suspect that if you made a "crow IQ test" and rated normal at 100 like a human test, that it would be found that the subjects in captivity were at least two standard deviations above the mean. I think what happened was basically the smart ones survived the longest and those were the ones that ultimately ended up in the breeding program. Since intelligence is largely dictated by genetics and you only had the most intellectual individuals reproducing, you basically had a reverse Idiocracy effect.

 

[SuiSui1]