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Peent.

Japanese white-eye

 

[Arbiter]

Just hanging around

 

[Um...]

Here’s some duckies

Emus are craycray

more emus acting out

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

Here is a cardinal sitting up in a tree. My favorite bird.

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I love the herons that hang around when I'm fishing on the beach. No shame in their game at all.

I've seen multiple Great Blue Herons near me, I love those guys. I've made it my mission for the summer to get a picture of one.

Peent

I heard these lil fellers "meeping" in the early morning when Spring first rolled around. One of my favorite bird calls lol.

 

[VIPPER?]

the BLUE JAY population in my area is INCREASING and it is INCREASING my JOY

 

[Um...]

Woodpecker feeding baby

These come to my feeder in the winter, love them.

 

[Piss Bear]

the BLUE JAY population in my area is INCREASING and it is INCREASING my JOY

I don't think I ever saw a blue jay in person before when I lived in the US... so sad. I did see Stellar'e Blue Jays though when I visited Utah.

Unrelated but here is a kookaburra I saw flying above head when I was biking to work. I love when I see them, they bring me so much joy. Aussie birds make me smile so much, I'm so lucky to be here honestly.

 

[Arbiter]

Anyone here play BRDL? I've noticed a lot of Wordle and Wordle-related threads here, so I thought maybe you guys might like BRDL.

https://brdl.alex.gd/

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/love-hit-game-wordle-try-brdl-bird-inspired-spinoff

 

[Most Wanted Banana]

No idea what's happening here.

 

[Catman from cat town]

I love African Gray Parrots.

 

[Arbiter]

No idea what's happening here.

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They were probably trying to avoid something that startled them, like a falcon or hawk, and something went wrong where a bunch ended up hitting the ground. Thankfully this kind of mass flock accident is rare, but it does happen occasionally. What's more common is individual birds hitting windows and dying.

Edit: They were Yellow-headed Blackbirds apparently.

Spoiler: The aftermath

It's very sad, but part of me can't help but think what nice specimens they would make for taxidermy.

 

[Yellow Rose Of Texas]

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/pictur...de-you-laugh-hysterically.40015/post-21880504

 

[Um...]

Woodpecker feeding baby
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These come to my feeder in the winter, love them.

Reposting this bc I have a baby one of these (red-bellied woodpecker) that has started coming around to my window feeder. He’s really little and just starting to get a little bit of red on his head. (Can’t get a pic be if he sees me he flies off.)

Adult RBW. They’re so pretty. Don’t know why they’re called red-bellied, the red is on their head. Dumb bird name.

 

[Arbiter]

Don’t know why they’re called red-bellied, the red is on their head. Dumb bird name.

They do have a tiny bit of red blush on their bellies, but it's very hard to see in the field.


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.

 

[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.