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Verging on the Trumpian there. (xp)

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murmuration of starlings is quite something to see.

gonna have to start flagging me some post in a minute

is it controversial to hate the canada goose and its prominence in suburban waterways? not at all

I bet ravens could be trained to kill seagulls.

that's how you get the movie The Birds, imo

The Birds should have featured owls, egrets, and herons. or it should have been called Some Basic Ass Birds

I'll never understand why Hitchcock abandoned that title.

i've been watching the animalapocalypse show Zoo about the chemically-induced mutation of the world's animals, and starring the indefatigable Billy Burke, and all i know is the body count better start getting higher or i'm not moving on to season 2.

actually, i guess the star is a guy who looks like coach taylor from friday night lights but i don't remember his name.

it's Bob Benson from Mad Men!

is it controversial to hate the canada goose and its prominence in suburban waterways? not at all

― mh, Tuesday, October 24, 2017 10:35 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

our pride and joy! honk honk

ah, okay, i don't think i made it that far into mad men.

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'egrets and herons' is rank tautology u oaf

it is important to single out egrets. i've no egrets.

ok i'm heron you

there is a prominent ilxor whose name i won't mention who has a pet starling.

Is it named Clarice?

a prominent ilxor has a pet egret named Ned Egret

Anyone with a heron named Mike?

At this point, anyone posting to this thread must have sundry egrets.

egrets, i've had a few, but then again

no raggretts

I'm just remembering a really weird starling factoid related to my native glasgow:

Glasgow, by the way, once had its starling display, an estimated two and a half million of them swooping through the gloaming above the City Chambers and the Central Station. But the council, in its wisdom, saw them off during the 1960s and 1970s, frightening them with loudspeakers, flashing lights and, memorably, a piper playing on Jamaica Bridge. Edwin Morgan, in 1968, wrote a poem about these efforts, in which he described the birds’ “sweet frenzied whistling” and asked: “I wonder if we really deserve starlings?”

A Glaswegian Guide to Startling Starlings.

U starling, pal?

starlings were imported into North America, where they have become an invasive species crowding out native species. they are considered to be a noisy nuisance at best. they don't belong here

In NYC the top three birds are the pigeon, the starling, and the house sparrow, all of which are imports. I wonder what would be our top bird if we had just left it up to nature.

Oi m8s

oi seaux as they say in france

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your mom is good

Harry Winks is not much better than say Ryan Mason

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― Treeship, Tuesday, October 24, 2017 2:37 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that dumb "how long how loooooong" song came on the radio the other day and i enjoyed it.

With some basic ass birds I'll share
This lonely view

Hey treeship *fist bumps*

the posthumous adulation for Harris Wittels got, at some point, overcooked

gulls are rock, i don't know who's kidding themselves that they can be bullied

grackles are the true worst

Nice one treeship

In NYC the top three birds are the pigeon, the starling, and the house sparrow, all of which are imports. I wonder what would be our top bird if we had just left it up to nature.

― Josefa, Tuesday, October 24, 2017 9:21 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the bald eagle ffs. 'which bird would have flourished in this polluted, hyper-urbanised concrete graveyard' <-trenchant social commentary idc

frankly, starlings, sparrows and pigeons are to be commended for their tenacity in the face of an extreme habitat. also they're nice little things and you should be honoured to have them

the most ubiquitous bird in my part of london is the RING-NECKED PARAKEET, a 20th-century introduction from India, but you won't catch me complaining, no matter how loudly they screech. sure they're elegant and bright green, which helps, but this is their home now, and power to them

then again, every bird is beautiful in its way. every single one. *weeps openly*

London's parakeets are all descended from a pair that escaped from the set of The African Queen in 1950. Or from a pair released by Jimi Hendrix from his Mayfair flat in 1969. Honest.

it was the same pair iirc

i got lost in some woods near shepperton during one of those ridiculously hot spells in the summer. parakeets were squawking everywhere, whole thing was straight out of the unlimited dream co.

I've been here for 16 years, I think, and I've never seen one.

But I'm not much of a one for nature tbh.

i love all birds