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How much do you love birds?

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Arbiter said:
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.
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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.
 
Diet Coke 4 Life said:
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.
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Here’s one owned by a Brit. He speaks with a british accent.
 
The Mighty Banth said:
Are those cotton patch geese??
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I think the female is? The gander looks more like some kind of white chinese goose? (look at the beluga lump on this guy!)

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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!
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I love geese, they're so chubby and cute.... :heart-full:
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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.)

 
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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.
 
Here’s a cheeky bird that says ELLO


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

 
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?

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Let it burn to fuckin ash said:
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.
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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.
 
Finally got audio of the parrot making 'pew pew' noises with the mockingbirds outside. First sound was him talking with the cardinals that sit in the tree just outside, then it was time for lazers. (And yes, he talks too, but normally only when he's whoring himself out for treats or scratches)

 
No pic, but the robins that were raised in the nest on my ladder finally got big enough to fly and left the nest today. I'm glad I get to take my ladder back now.
 
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