Rolling Avian Issues Thread

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

http://www.birdlife.org/europe-and-central-asia/news/if-you-visit-cyprus-say-no-ambelopoulia

russian money, trapped birds

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

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

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?

*rereads Remainder*

they sell for $5 each apparently so scarcely as rarified as all that

just the sort of thing any sylvan dwelling cypriot bloke would have for supper of an evening

maybe drug dealers sell them along with other contraband

casu marzu stylee yh

but a single songbird is tiny, you'd need 7 or 8 to remotely sate you

would u be prepared to try it if an ecologist could persuade u that the relevant species are not in existential danger?

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)

i...oh this is v difficult. aesthetically no, gastronomically yes. let's say no because i never will, realistically

the only circumstance i would eat them is an uncovering of Real Cyprus with J Meades

oh yeah he is really into all sorts of grotty offal type things from provincial france

distinctly recall a Jeremy Clarkson tour of France wherein he ate ortolan

Meades would do similar but with tenfold grace & historiographic insight

http://online.wsj.com/articles/uncorking-the-city-birds-bubbles-pairs-champagne-and-fried-chicken-1411091445

haha I was going to ask abt ur WSJ membership but you don't actually need any more than is previewed

City Grit

http://i.imgur.com/tIO0iAt.jpg

this is where it will have all been heading

a strigiform, no less

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrSpP7qsZ1E

Der Alpenstrandläufer (Calidris alpina) ist eine zirkumpolar verbreitete Vogelart aus der Familie der Schnepfenvögel (Scolopacidae)

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/babes-of-the-bnp

http://i.imgur.com/Imw8bq8.jpg

In the warm rain of the next day the chiffchaff sings
among the rosy blossoms of the leafless larches, a small
voice that yet reaches from the valley to the high hill.
It is a double, many times repeated note that foretells the
cuckoo's. In the evening the songs are bold and full, but
the stems of the beeches are faint as soft columns of
smoke and the columns of smoke from the cottages are
like them in the still air.

Yet another frost follows, and in the dim golden light
just after sunrise the shadows of all the beeches lie on
the slopes, dark and more tangible than the trees, as if
they were the real and those standing upright were the
returned spirits above the dead.

Now rain falls and relents and falls again all day, and
the earth is hidden under it, and as from a land submerged
the songs mount through the veil. The mists waver out
of the beeches like puffs of smoke or hang upon them
or in them like fleeces caught in thorns : in the just pene-
trating sunlight the long boles of the beeches shine, and
the chaffinch, the yellowhammer and the cirl bunting
sing songs of blissful drowsiness. The Downs, not yet
green, rise far off and look, through the rain, like old
thatched houses.

http://i.imgur.com/OUAlkUT.jpg?1

wd not want to guess at the species

Canus iirc

some of these avians that they have now.....my word

http://i.imgur.com/Tr4w0Dr.jpg

www.theaviaryperth.com.au/

Welcome to The Aviary - Perth's largest rooftop bar with The Bird Cage Restaurant and lounge located on Level 1.

at this time of year, British avians are apt to be frigipedal and migratory

Your search - frigipedal - did not match any documents

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_lV1fXHF05I/TuiPvRJAAlI/AAAAAAAACs4/fyuNJ4QyngQ/s1600/DSC00478.JPG

Caim In Bird Form received a limited cassette release through Digitalis earlier this year, and the Oklahoma imprint has confirmed that the record will get a full vinyl release next month. A press release for the LP describes is as "somewhere between Kassem Mosse, The New Blockaders and Zoviet*France."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbvH9r8D9HU

The score is prefaced with the words:

Once I saw an Oockooing bird
so white
o God so white

from 1950 so he was 15 or 16 when he wrote it

In his travels he took great interest in wildlife and gave a scientific name to the Arabian woodpecker (Desertipicus (now Dendrocopos) dorae), as well as a subspecies (no longer valid) of an scops owl (Otus scops pamelae). Most of his birds were named after women whom he admired. He contributed numerous specimens to the British Museum. He also contributed to the draft of a book on the birds of Arabia by George Latimer Bates. It was not published but was made use of in Birds of Arabia (1954) by Richard Meinertzhagen. Philby is remembered in ornithology by the name of Philby's partridge (Alectoris philbyi). [11][12]