Rolling Avian Issues Thread

True story: a few years ago I went to a Chinese restaurant around Chinese New Year season and they had a special menu on which included "pigeon in capital sauce"

we tried to order this but were told it had run out

at the end of the meal one of the fortunes in our fortune cookies read:

Be kind to pigeons, and one day they will build a statue of you

These are the chronicles of my attempts to be kind to pigeons

Previous attempt did not end well, young pigeon fell out of tree, broke wing; nearby animal rescue place did not answer phone, so took to vet who put it down: nothing he could do for a too-young-to-fly pigeon with a wing that would probably never set right. Perhaps best not to dwell on that attempt. Hope today's goes better.

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 ;)

the delightful confluence was for the fortune cookie, not your doomed previous attempt, that was noble if not delightful

i'm in favour of all small subversions of natural selection

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.

Are we not ourselves nature? xp

this could be an entire discourse of philosophy, let alone an ILX post, fwiw

being part of "nature" not the same as influencing the mechanisms of natural selection maybe

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]

a strigiform, no less

but whose, it will be asked, were the acephaly issues

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/1/4/4/9/0/2/5/angry-tweety-19834498220.jpeg

have you recovered?

Bridget Fonda. Rowrrrr.

― dinnerboat, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:41 (Yesterday)

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

there's a roost in the central copse of wormwood scrubs common that is awesome and terrifying to hear at dusk

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

fulmar honoratus erit

fulmar honoratus in silva

tbf tbf they're birds of cliff and sea, an arboreal setting wd confound 'em

fulmar honoratus desilva

i don't even care what bird is printed on yr latepass

what is the most pretentious & overrated bird

flamingo, easy

but there are others

the flamingo at least has a weirdly ascetic diet

xp - you should think about the implications of how quickly you click "submit post"

oh ZING! that's some chirpy stuff

flamingos are rated?

flamingos are p rated. flamingo iconography in pop culture is p extensive

p

hate

ick

what about their backsides? amirite?

just realised that 'ha' and then '✓' would have been far, far better xp to selfe

Will not hear a word said against flamingos.

Feel like we are reaching 'peak owl' atm but they are still great so whatever.

ha-check?

when cephalous xp

p

ha

✓

i'm sorry but that is a "check mark"

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

falcons >>>> owls >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> eagles > vultures

kites and harriers somewhere closer to owls than eagles tbfttls

he looked like a ha-check clerk at an ice rink, which in fact, he turned out to beeeee

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?

let sex = sex

falcons >>>> owls >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> eagles > vultures

― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 22:18 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what about seahawks ravens and cardinals

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

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?

yeah cardinals are delightful songbirds but what they're doing in a raptor classification i simply do not know

nfl avians

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.

idk if mordy will take well to the eagles being included in that