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
you need people willing to pay for this shit, is what the article doesn't contemplate, and the russian oligarch approach to ecological conservation is apocalyptic at best. the only way around this is to popularise other less harmful delicacies. tbf cypriot cuisine is fucking amazing and why would you need to eat songbirds when you could have souvlaki, sheftalia etc instead - this is like the ortolan thing except seven times more savage on account of the indiscriminate nature of it
― imago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 10:56 (nine years ago) link
that's probably a complete misreading & borderline antislavic racism given that there are enough native cypriot shipping magnates with sizeable enough gizzards to descrub an entire continent of warblers
― imago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 10:59 (nine years ago) link
when you have that much money, do you just start really enjoying the slaughter and consumption of pretty & rare things? is it a psychological inevitability?
― imago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 11:00 (nine years ago) link
*rereads Remainder*
they sell for $5 each apparently so scarcely as rarified as all that
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
just the sort of thing any sylvan dwelling cypriot bloke would have for supper of an evening
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
maybe drug dealers sell them along with other contraband
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
casu marzu stylee yh
but a single songbird is tiny, you'd need 7 or 8 to remotely sate you
― imago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
would u be prepared to try it if an ecologist could persuade u that the relevant species are not in existential danger?
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
also prepared to eat bird entrails
That makes sense. It's weird to think of birds getting lonely and being super needy, but I guess it happens when you keep an animal capable of flight inside a house.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:25 (Yesterday)
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
i...oh this is v difficult. aesthetically no, gastronomically yes. let's say no because i never will, realistically
― imago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
the only circumstance i would eat them is an uncovering of Real Cyprus with J Meades
― imago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link