they're ring-necked parakeets, totally indian subcontinent dude read yr field guides
provenance is only an optional part of my comparison; it works pretty well even w/o factoring it in
they're quite small-bodied tttt, size accentuated by large head + lengthy although usually damaged tail (scuffles w/ pigeons, household cats, holly bushes)
― titular character (acoleuthic), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― zvookster, Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― titular character (acoleuthic), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keet&oldid=190135750
― zvookster, Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
they have hijacked a fieldfare each and are using its body warmth for sustenance. don't trust those bastards
― titular character (acoleuthic), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
screeching herbivore wankers
do truffle fries count? cuz they're a fungus rather than a plant
― nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
The word "Keet" means orca in the Tlingit language
― nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
dude you're part of the problem, put yr offal in the freaking bin next time
― titular character (acoleuthic), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
― nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
i felt something fly up out of me and contribute to the deforestation of a lime tree ;_; peace god
― titular character (acoleuthic), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
― nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Saturday, 18 December 2010 01:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Kinda hoping that waxwings come here this year. 60 reported outside Debenhams in Eastbourne today, not so far away...
― O Permaban (NickB), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
they look kinda chill i guess
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
― O Permaban (NickB), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
BEST BIRDS
― smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
"the waxing trend"
― smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://media.peopleofwalmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/1918Two.jpg
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
peace god
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Those birds look like they're wearing deal with it shades from afar!
― ENBB, Friday, 31 December 2010 00:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw today I discovered the worst thing in the world
― acoleuthic, Friday, 31 December 2010 00:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
What's up with these birds falling out of the sky?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9432186
― O Permaban (NickB), Sunday, 2 January 2011 09:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
― yuoowemeone, Sunday, 2 January 2011 09:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 2 January 2011 09:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― /\/\/\Y/\ Amchill Rothschild (nakhchivan), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
nightingales are creatures of deciduous woodland not urban greenfield
probably robins, mebbe songthrushes
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw you shd all look at my link a few posts upthread
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like the sound of birds at night.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
LJ are you a bird watcher / ornithologist?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
in my early days I was much more devout, but yeah I guess
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lapsed Ornithology still pretty cool IMO
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
may the bird be w/ u
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Go in peace and love to serve the birds
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
damn feels so weird now lj knows i'm not akshly in ldn but a delapidated fortress in a slovakian birch forest ;_;
― /\/\/\Y/\ Amchill Rothschild (nakhchivan), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
u shd host a vibrant, classico-noise-based alternative to exit festival
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― /\/\/\Y/\ Amchill Rothschild (nakhchivan), Sunday, 2 January 2011 20:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wow, 68%
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 2 January 2011 20:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
ime it looks like more than that even
― /\/\/\Y/\ Amchill Rothschild (nakhchivan), Sunday, 2 January 2011 20:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 20:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/biologicalsciences/falcon/
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
they're falling out of the sky in the US.
― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
nightingales are creatures of deciduous woodland
Read this first as "delicious woodland."
― children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 6 January 2011 02:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/12170571
Fancy that!
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
they know
they know it's time
― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've heard of birds getting drunk on fermented berries before (waxwings iirc). Never heard of them dying from it though. RIP starlings
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
fuckers be optin' outta the foodchain
rip starlings, sorry i called you shit birds upthread
― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― agrarian gamekeeper (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
DO IT
(red kites again? lol)
― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lots of recorded instances of it, so maybe they sometimes do :(
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink