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Birds have brought me a lot of joy for well over a decade now, though in the last year–year and a half I've been absolutely obsessed with penguins (especially Gentoo Penguins). For about as much time I've tuned into the Tennessee Aquarium's penguin cam and it's a joy everyone deserves to have—you'll most likely have to click to another camera first, as it doesn't like to start on direct links for some reason.
I wonder if penguins realize the absurdity of their existence. Probably not, but they're still lovable so who really cares?

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Diet Coke 4 Life said:
Walking today, took bird pics with the shittiest phone.

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Huge batch of buzzards.
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Gathering around a fish.
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Bald eagle comes in and tells them to fuck off.
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It would freak me the fuck out to have a bunch of buzzards sitting on my roof. I know they perform an important service to nature, but they still creep me out.

When I was out birding (pics posted upthread) last week I saw a massive column of turkey vultures circling over a field. Like 30-50 birds... there must have been something large and rotten out there. Ugh.

Since I took those pictures I've been seeing two eagles every day. Not the same two. One day I saw a mature bald eagle and what was likely the 2 year old I posted previously. The next day two mature bald eagles. The day after that a golden eagle and a bald eagle. Then a bald eagle and a juvenile bald eagle, and so on... I'm gonna have to change my Indian name to Ronnie Twoeagles.
 
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Ronnie Rocket said:
It would freak me the fuck out to have a bunch of buzzards sitting on my roof. I know they perform an important service to nature, but they still creep me out.

When I was out birding (pics posted upthread) last week I saw a massive column of turkey vultures circling over a field. Like 30-50 birds... there must have been something large and rotten out there. Ugh.

Since I took those pictures I've been seeing two eagles every day. Not the same two. One day I saw a mature bald eagle and what was likely the 2 year old I posted previously. The next day two mature bald eagles. The day after that a golden eagle and a bald eagle. Then a bald eagle and a juvenile bald eagle, and so on... I'm gonna have to change my Indian name to Ronnie Twoeagles.
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A lot of times vultures aren't even by anything dead, they're just hanging out. They're very social birds and at night roost in huge numbers together (sometimes 60-100+ birds). When they're hanging out riding thermals together like that, it's called a kettle.

Vultures are some of my favorite birds

In other news, guess who had to put a hormonal foot-humping dinosaur in horny jail today?
 
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Android raptor said:
A lot of times vultures aren't even by anything dead, they're just hanging out. They're very social birds and at night roost in huge numbers together (sometimes 60-100+ birds). When they're hanging out riding thermals together like that, it's called a kettle.
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is there some particular metric for when they go after dead-ish things? sometimes they'll be all over some roadkill and others they wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole
 
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is there some particular metric for when they go after dead-ish things? sometimes they'll be all over some roadkill and others they wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole
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I would imagine its if they're hungry and how accessible the roadkill is. Plus most vultures, with the exception of some new world species with a good sense of smell like turkey vultures, rely on eyesight to find carrion, so if it can't be seen from above they might not be able to find it.

I'd imagine some individuals are just picky too, or hesitant to try things they aren't familiar with (I witnessed the lap-faced vultures at the zoo being hesitant the first time they got a butchered goat carcass, the wild cardinals and robins seemed to enjoy the scraps tho).
 
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Ronnie Rocket said:
It would freak me the fuck out to have a bunch of buzzards sitting on my roof. I know they perform an important service to nature, but they still creep me out.

When I was out birding (pics posted upthread) last week I saw a massive column of turkey vultures circling over a field. Like 30-50 birds... there must have been something large and rotten out there. Ugh.

Since I took those pictures I've been seeing two eagles every day. Not the same two. One day I saw a mature bald eagle and what was likely the 2 year old I posted previously. The next day two mature bald eagles. The day after that a golden eagle and a bald eagle. Then a bald eagle and a juvenile bald eagle, and so on... I'm gonna have to change my Indian name to Ronnie Twoeagles.
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Vultures are very good.

 
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Re: vultures

I know they're fascinating birds, there's just something about them that skeeves me out. And it's not cultural, like my owl paranoia (which I'm mostly over), just a weird gut feeling.

Two eagles again yesterday. A mature one soaring very high and a juvenile that was still learning how not to be a sperg - he was trying to land near the side of the road and he was very wobbly.
 
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