Rolling Avian Issues Thread

Due to their short wings, auks have to flap their wings very quickly in order to fly.

those avians

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/27/lazio-eagle-attacked-crow

eagle mascot is some proper spqr shit

Jesus christ, that picture!

did u see the weasel/woodpecker interface from the uk newsy-wewsies a few weeks ago

was it a super furry weasel?

it was super insofar as it had achieved the power of flight, something few weasels achieve

sounds like a pile of arse

Yeah, that's the biggest surprise of the set so far, and very welcome after the preceding four or five

next week i'll be liveblogging the TV listings for CBS Action

Yes. Although stranger things have happened

http://a54.idata.over-blog.com/3/75/39/26/bataille-1928.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS_hq0MlNwo

The break seems to have done them some good, they sound far more with it in these clips than they do on the 2009-era footage.

http://www.manxbirdphotography.co.uk/Birds/Crows-Shrikes/Chough/slides/chough211012.jpg

lol

Scrub Jay: 87K wav file
Description: A Scrub jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) seemed to be flying towards the person doing the recording as he makes this series of chirps.

Hope you're all voting today mates

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all that rhetoric about unseating the robin but it's nigh on the best one, might even vote for it

blue tit and wren the only acceptable alternatives

voted robin

If you weren't limited to that shortlist, what would be your choice for national bird of Britain?

Imagine btw that this is official and permanent, not that I think this thing is

Pied wagtail would be my choice

Has nobody else voted? :(

was gonna vote Puffin but fuck off giving an email address

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how would you feel if it after a couple of bemused trips to moorlands and wetlands, it became clear that though there was no lack of avians, the entire avian population now compromised only of common or garden british normcore perennials like blackbirds, robins, wood pigeons etc?

lol at the tableau at the top of the gis for wood pigeon by the way

trenchant autocorrects

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Jeronimus_Sweerts_-_flowers_in_a_basket_with_shells_and_a_bird_and_a_bowl_of_fruit.jpg

that is an excellent composition

props on making quite a gaudily-hued psittaciform look so demure

But despite herons being nicknamed the 'shitepoke' in some quarters for their usual reaction to being disturbed, the carefully-maintained shiny black paintwork was not sullied.

there were some odd looking avians in my aunt's ash tree the other day, like ....Parus major....but with longer tails

herons are dorks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFTApZVmOYI
Pres. Maduro: Hugo Chavez came to me in the form of a bird

this is the year I became aware of the crows eating ducklings issue :-(

there is such a thing as a long-tailed tit

the conformation is about right but these avians were of a different complexion

would the hitler party approve or diapprove of these avians and suggest they be expatriated?

they appeared to be autochthonous avians judging by the plumpness of their posteriors and their pale complexion; their frantic attempt to gather food suggested concern about the ongoing attempt to eradicate the british avianry and the british identity through the forced assimilation of different cultures and different avians with our culture and our avians resulting in the bastardization of the genuine diversity that makes up the rich tapestry of aviankind, specifically with reference to the tautly mesomorphic and lurid parakeets whose slender bottoms can often be seen perched athwart the branches of london trees

my best guess is the spotted flycatcher, whose habitual feeding technique is to make a circular sortie from & to the same branch, snaring a winged insect in the interim; this particular avian does prefer to venture abroad in the colder months, however - taking advantage of its aerial facility to ensure that a little piece of britain can forever be found in subsaharan africa, as is right

didnt look like freikorpsers

a+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re5LoYKyGT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3-E3xuQtqI

http://arttattler.com/Images/Europe/Germany/Frankfurt/die%20Stadel/Master%20of%20Flemalle/RvWeyden_Triptychon_Verkundigung_Stifter_Heimsuchung_Mitteltafel.jpg

avians-are-smart-deal-with-it: avian-americans & affirmative action

Although much richer in bird species, South America cannot match Australia's large, brainy passerines.