BIRDS

The specific origin of the birds is not known, but they most likely came from a single pair of breeding parakeets which escaped or were released in the mid-1990s. Other origins have been attributed to them: the most popular idea being that they escaped from Ealing Studios, West London, during the filming of The African Queen (which was actually made in the Isleworth Studios) in 1951. Other theories are that they escaped from an aviary during a 1987 hurricane; or that a pair released by Jimi Hendrix in Carnaby Street, London, in the 1960s, are to blame.

if one must invoke corvids, then the magpie is most expedient control set - and a species whose tails are ruined with roughly equal regularity

but somehow for all their nest-raiding passerine-slaying cruelty, magpies are abt 5000x less cuntish than yr screeching herbivore wankers

yeah don't worry i'll trust u on their origin

can't imagine a pigeon fighting

keets p big tho imo

not a zat knight but maybe an avian john mensah

just thought i'd give some <3 to them cuz usually i patronize them as gaudy wastes of time but damn if surviving (prospering judging by the racket they were making today) in northern european winters doesn't give them some cred

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keet&oldid=190135750

they have hijacked a fieldfare each and are using its body warmth for sustenance. don't trust those bastards

screeching herbivore wankers

do truffle fries count? cuz they're a fungus rather than a plant

The word "Keet" means orca in the Tlingit language

dude you're part of the problem, put yr offal in the freaking bin next time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1urw2vbBsY

i felt something fly up out of me and contribute to the deforestation of a lime tree ;_; peace god

http://www.brisky.com/content/node-8/parakeets.jpg

http://www.ophrysphotography.co.uk/images/news/waxwings3018.jpg

Kinda hoping that waxwings come here this year. 60 reported outside Debenhams in Eastbourne today, not so far away...

they look kinda chill i guess

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/2553697683_81e7cb80e5.jpg

BEST BIRDS

"the waxing trend"

http://media.peopleofwalmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/1918Two.jpg

peace god

Those birds look like they're wearing deal with it shades from afar!

btw today I discovered the worst thing in the world

What's up with these birds falling out of the sky?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9432186

http://www.cepf.net/SiteCollectionImages/506x180/506x180_philippineEagle.jpg

I'm kind of bird phobic, I think. I mean I like birds to look at and from afar but up close, wiggins central. My sister in law has an eclectus parrot and though v cool to look at I don't like being near it. The one time it sat on my shoulder I spent the whole time staring straight ahead praying that it wouldn't peck my eyes out. Plus I was chased by a goose once so I have a general distrust. Sorry birds. Nothing personal

birds are great but having one of those psittacotic freaks on yr shoulder does not sound like fun

don't get me wrong parrots r basically chill but mainly for sitting in cages and listening to coal chamber

there are loads of birds here at night, guessing nightingales? never see them but <3 their songs

nightingales are creatures of deciduous woodland not urban greenfield

probably robins, mebbe songthrushes

btw you shd all look at my link a few posts upthread

I like the sound of birds at night.

LJ are you a bird watcher / ornithologist?

in my early days I was much more devout, but yeah I guess

Lapsed Ornithology still pretty cool IMO

may the bird be w/ u

Go in peace and love to serve the birds

damn feels so weird now lj knows i'm not akshly in ldn but a delapidated fortress in a slovakian birch forest ;_;

u shd host a vibrant, classico-noise-based alternative to exit festival

i really like birds and always have done, but i've never got any sort of knowledge about them....just like to observe the local fauna yknow

it feels so weird that nobody knows why all the sparrows have disappeared

Wow, 68%

ime it looks like more than that even

they're a v gregarious species and depend upon colonies - scarcities of food, disease or any kind of downward fluctuation (usually caused by changing agricultural procedures) means that entire colonies will subside

http://i.imgur.com/VZNGz.jpg

http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/biologicalsciences/falcon/

they're falling out of the sky in the US.

nightingales are creatures of deciduous woodland

Read this first as "delicious woodland."

Us bird massacre due to fireworks (apparently) Happy new murdering birds eve (maybe) you lot >:(

Now happening in Sweden...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12118839

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/12170571

Fancy that!

they know

they know it's time

I've heard of birds getting drunk on fermented berries before (waxwings iirc). Never heard of them dying from it though. RIP starlings

fuckers be optin' outta the foodchain

rip starlings, sorry i called you shit birds upthread

I've heard of birds getting drunk on fermented berries before (waxwings iirc). Never heard of them dying from it though

In the version of this nth-hand anecdote that I heard, they did die

was going to chatter idly about my own bird-spotting news but will keep it off this doomed thread of bird deaths for fear of jinxing my new feathery palz

DO IT

(red kites again? lol)

In the version of this nth-hand anecdote that I heard, they did die

Lots of recorded instances of it, so maybe they sometimes do :(

Oh, did I talk about red kites on here already? I do not remember. The other half's father (who takes birds v seriously) is coming to visit soon and is most insistent on being taken to east Oxfordshire to see them, though. Hope they put on a good show.

No, this week's bird news is that there's been a leucistic Egyptian goose hanging around my walk to work all week. I had never seen the like before. Fed some ducks this lunchbreak and had it eating birdseed out of my hand. Wait, real birder types wouldn't approve of that at all, would you? Ahem.