omg that is a delightful confluence :D
i remember handling a dying pigeon at school and then freaking out in the subsequent science lesson that i had every contagious disease known to man, running to the toilets and washing my hands about 11 times
you did a good thing, and who knows, it's july, it might warm up. next time buy it some chips tho ;)
― which was retweeted by (imago), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 08:58 (nine years ago) link
the delightful confluence was for the fortune cookie, not your doomed previous attempt, that was noble if not delightful
― which was retweeted by (imago), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 08:59 (nine years ago) link
i'm in favour of all small subversions of natural selection
― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 09:01 (nine years ago) link
More worried about what I've caught from the river water than what I've caught from the pigeon tbh! Though people do swim in that stretch occasionally and I have not heard of any dying afterwards.
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 09:07 (nine years ago) link
Are we not ourselves nature? xp
this could be an entire discourse of philosophy, let alone an ILX post, fwiw
― which was retweeted by (imago), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 09:40 (nine years ago) link
being part of "nature" not the same as influencing the mechanisms of natural selection maybe
― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 10:24 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyCvFIZxWc
The owl was treated for its injuries at a local veterinary clinic, but later died of stress related to the incident. Moreno received a two-match ban, a $560 fine from Colombian football's governing body in addition to veterinary costs for the owl's treatment and was ordered to do community service at a zoo.[12]
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Monday, 25 August 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
a strigiform, no less
but whose, it will be asked, were the acephaly issues
― imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/1/4/4/9/0/2/5/angry-tweety-19834498220.jpeg
have you recovered?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Bridget Fonda. Rowrrrr.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:41 (Yesterday)
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
there would appear to be more parakeets in london than in previous years, perhaps because it was a mild winter? there are thousands of the things and they are behaving as if they own the place
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Saturday, 30 August 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
there's a roost in the central copse of wormwood scrubs common that is awesome and terrifying to hear at dusk
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
btw I noticed that the bird on the photo page of my new passport is a fulmar. fulmars are lovely birds, they fly with the stiffest of wings and have tubular noses
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
fulmar honoratus erit
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Saturday, 30 August 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
fulmar honoratus in silva
tbf tbf they're birds of cliff and sea, an arboreal setting wd confound 'em
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
fulmar honoratus desilva
― sarahell, Saturday, 30 August 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
i don't even care what bird is printed on yr latepass
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
what is the most pretentious & overrated bird
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Saturday, 30 August 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
flamingo, easy
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
but there are others
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
the flamingo at least has a weirdly ascetic diet
xp - you should think about the implications of how quickly you click "submit post"
― sarahell, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
oh ZING! that's some chirpy stuff
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
flamingos are rated?
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
flamingos are p rated. flamingo iconography in pop culture is p extensive
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
p
hate
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
ick
what about their backsides? amirite?
― sarahell, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
just realised that 'ha' and then '✓' would have been far, far better xp to selfe
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
Will not hear a word said against flamingos.
Feel like we are reaching 'peak owl' atm but they are still great so whatever.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
ha-check?
― sarahell, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
when cephalous xp
ha
✓
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
i'm sorry but that is a "check mark"
― sarahell, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
oh, some eagle is probably the most pretentious/overrated. or the condor - especially dismal as saprophytic & literally only noteworthy for its wingspan, which the largest albatrosses have in greater supply regardless
sarahell i don't even are you trying to send me mad here lol
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
falcons >>>> owls >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> eagles > vultures
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
kites and harriers somewhere closer to owls than eagles tbfttls
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
he looked like a ha-check clerk at an ice rink, which in fact, he turned out to beeeee
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
sorry i'm basically spewing logorrhea because i'm tired but i'm going to bed now. sorry for ruining this thread
is there a ha-check there waiting for you?
― sarahell, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
let sex = sex
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 22:18 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what about seahawks ravens and cardinals
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
And if you’re vegetarian, it could make a very suitable avian familiar.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/goths_and_metalheads_is_your_heart_black_enough_for_the_indonesian_ayam_cem
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 11 September 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
sweet, although all chickens are p stupid & characterless imo
ravens are ahead of falcons & indeed all corvids are among the best of birds. Seahawks are ok. cardinals...aren't they fairly innocent?
― imago, Thursday, 11 September 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
yeah cardinals are delightful songbirds but what they're doing in a raptor classification i simply do not know
― imago, Thursday, 11 September 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
nfl avians
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 11 September 2014 01:11 (nine years ago) link
Maybe when I wake up tomorrow I'll forget that the one team that links me to my childhood and that I truly take pride in (sorry, Yanks), just laid an egg that next Sunday will hatch into the 8-8 Arizona Cardinals, who were 3-7 outside of their historically shitty division, hosting the all-faggy-bird-team-name NFC Championship.
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 11 September 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link
idk if mordy will take well to the eagles being included in that
http://www.birdlife.org/europe-and-central-asia/news/if-you-visit-cyprus-say-no-ambelopoulia
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 10:51 (nine years ago) link
russian money, trapped birds
― imago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 10:54 (nine years ago) link