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Birds are Cylon agents.

 

[Ribbit]

 

[Chicken In A Pot]

Birds are not real

If that's the case, you are heartily invited to come over and not clean up all the imaginary poop in my house.

 

[Chicken In A Pot]

Imaginary Pearl dancing is a figment of your imagination.

 

[omori]

@FierceBrosnan how dare you not show off Miss Bee.

 

[Realistic Elephant]

Mandatory blue jay post, these guys have been going absolutely apeshit about apparently everything since the first few days of cooler weather we had here around a week and a half ago.

 

[Grub]

Here's a chicken that had lunch with me one day.

 

[SuiSui1]

 

[FierceBrosnan]

@FierceBrosnan how dare you not show off Miss Bee.

Well since I've been called out here is Bee. She is my coturnyx quail with torticolis. She is one sassy nuggie and demands 2 things, attention and food.

 

[SuiSui1]

 

[Testament]

 

[SuiSui1]

 

[AbyssStarer]

 

[XYZpdq]

Bird thread is almost off the front page and I'm drunk. Therefore, it's time for a SCSI Bird Post (TM). Today I introduce you to the burrowing owl, the cutest goddamned owl in North America. It's a pocket-sized owl. If that wasn't cute enough, it lives in the ground, like a tiny feathered bunny -- almost literally, as they often appropriate abandoned bunny burrows. Holy shit. It also tends to just chase prey like a velociraptor instead of flying after it, because fuck you, it found a way to be even cuter. They also sound like a weird-ass cross between a hooting owl and a giggling quail. Now you know it exists. You're welcome.

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my parents had some set up shop in their front lawn
which was a little worrisome as they're Endangered so parents were checking with property law lawyer relative about what the fuck they had to keep an eye on with literally a Simpsons episode happening, but things were mostly chill
eventually the owls had a family, and got into a big fight with some of the local mockingbirds
it ended up with a dead mockingbird they kept in front of their burrow and would stand on top of while on the lookout for other things to kill
eventually the owls moved out

 

[SCSI]

Time for birds! Today's post is introducing the black-chinned hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) of western North America. They're a lot like a palette-swapped ruby throat -- the gorget on the males is a rich, deep purple that often appears black in low lighting, instead of the blood red more familiar to those in the eastern half of the USA.

Spoiler: More, Please

But... they have a special feature that ruby-throats lack. Their feathers chirp and ring in flight, if the bird wants them to (especially during courtship or territory displays). Sounds a little like a cricket or ringing ball-bearings.

Click HERE to listen to a recording from the Macaulay Library ornithology archives (skip to 0:10 to jump past the author/date/etc notes). That weird metallic trilling sound is *not* the bird chirping.

Content In Motion: A short 4K clip of a male black-chinned hummingbird chilling out, lots of adorable detail.

 

[Ribbit]

 

[Testament]

 

[Pee Cola]

 

[Pee Cola]

Live birb cam from Australia. Falcon chicks nesting in a high-rise building in Melbourne's CBD.

Edit: Looks like they stopped nesting.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Last Saturday at the wildlife clinic I had the opportunity to assist with X-rays on, and subsequently be bit by, a western screech owl! He had been sedated to make it easier but he was still putting up a fuss (so would I if a pair of giants taped me to a table, stole my blood, and force-fed me medicine) I also hadn't handled a raptor in so long that I forgot how to properly hold their talons and I ended up making it easier for him to dig them into my hand. Glad to make that mistake with this little guy rather than make the mistake with a red-tailed hawk.

Here is a non-drugged owl for visual referance.