Rolling Avian Issues Thread

we now have a slightly stronger (REDACTED) in play, which i suspect to be perhaps yet lesser than wins' (REDACTED), but who knows

:)

Is this that horrible mean redacted guy that always creeped people out + liked fleetwood Mac?

just being sincere again for a second

don't know how to say this

friend works for reuters

just sent a text

quote

I do like Fleetwood Mac

I was given that exact toy on a beach in Bournemouth when I was 7

RIP GEORGE HARRISON

RIP

Eh ntitai, it's a new year, who cares, peace and love to all,

sincerely

(Sincerely)

and as always, RIP

xxxp idk who you're referring to?

Oh mods please delete that

whoops

Sarahell please

Born 25 February 1943
Liverpool, England
Died 31 December 2015 (aged 72)
Hitlertown, California, US
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Occupation(s)
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Instruments
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Years active 1958–2908
Labels
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Associated acts
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Website georgeharrison.com

let's let Josie Long be Josie Long and not a ... redacted

it's ok brimstead, you have caused no offence (and i don't know who it is either)

don't know what this garbage is about but all current posters itt are established and valued posters

have some respect please

doing the costanza exit, feeling like in goldeneye on n64 when you trip an alarm and a million guards get all up in your ass

being in Altamont, do you have any insight into the Rolling Stones?

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The stones helicoptered in/out to/from altamont afaik. It's motorcross/bmx/meth culture up here, pretty much

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6413c81140ed4d80439c1b3eb771886c4ed37f80/0_0_3500_2099/master/3500.jpg?w=1920&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=36e1e69065f9b4e2076f54a963ac47e8

https://twitter.com/naturecamhd/status/688085264036675585

earlier this week my boss told us about the time he stole a hummingbird egg from london zoo

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Apotheosis.jpg

those morbid corvids!

not graving but dining

There it is

lol

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: GORY IMAGES OF INJURED PIGEON

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3444471/Horrifying-pictures-capture-moment-seagull-DEVOURS-baby-pigeon-shock-city-centre-shoppers.html

notice how the gull stands athwart the pigeon during the enjoyment of his food

ilx has a lot of avian issues this week
XD

The Eurasian jay was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th century work Systema Naturae. He recognised its affinity with other corvids, naming it Corvus glandarius.[2]

there is a pair of these living nearby; they are a common normcore avian, though i have seldom seen them so close. they tend to flit around hyperactively in the trees, not yet quite in leaf. they look raffish without being either lowering in the manner of higher corvids, or delinquent in the manner of magpies which they otherwise resemble. the differences with the latter are instructive; swole rather than hench, less agitated though probably more agile. their footwork for a comparatively large avian is extraorindary, they seem to float above the branches as if cushioned by miniature air max 90s. they resist anthropomorphization more than the other corvids. they do not seem to have any affective idiosyncracies; their colouration may be lurid but they are otherwise neutral, typified by a sort of motivic listlessness that allows them do very little in any purposive sense, while seldom settling athwart any particular branch for very long.

whichever smartarse decided 'garrulus' was a more appropriate genus name deserves a particularly crass tick

also welcome back, etc

the bit about being cushioned by miniature air max 90s is the most on-point observation; they really do seem to flow about vegetation, rather than crash from branch to branch with the hyperbolic tail-dipping radge of a magpie. you get a lot of them near where i live.

saw a rufous hummingbird while taking a piss in a bush on Vancouver's "beer island" the other day. exceptional avian to observe whilst micturating

they don't make all that much noise, again especially compared to magpies and the noise they do make is less distinctive than that of most other corvids.

it's less insistent and noisy than most corvid cries, yes, but it can be quite copious. it's still a weird choice for 'garrulus'

had no idea hummingbirds went as far north as canada, truly the galapagos penguin of hummingbirds

how do you rate these normcore avians:

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

5, 9, 10

I took pains to determine the flight of crook-taloned
birds, marking which were of the right by nature, and
which of the left, and what were their ways of living, each
after his kind, and the enmities and affections that were
between them, and how they consorted together.

https://twitter.com/onlyloveHH/status/723616680929275905

It is clear that Khan doesn’t think there is much merit in appearing close to Corbyn in any way, even now that he has won his election. But what will be interesting is how critical the new Mayor decides to be of his party leader. Labour moderates are hoping that at the very least he will be what one described as ‘another woodpecker at the tree’, chipping away at the party leadership with similar comments to the ones he made over the weekend about the importance of actually winning elections.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/20/catalogue-doiseaux-review-pierre-laurent-aimard-aldeburgh-festival#img-2

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3649724/Hats-ladies-just-make-look-silly-Anna-Friel-hits-Royal-Ascot-pigeon-head-QUENTIN-LETTS-explains-isn-t-fan.html