a novice
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Smales, I. (2006)
Impacts of Avian Collision with Wind Power Turbines: AnOverview of the Modelling of Cumulative Risks Posed by Multiple WindFarms
Report for the Department of Environment and Heritage. Pro-ject No. 5182. Biosis Research Pty Ltd., Melbourne
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link
^rain of blood
went rambling in cassiobury park, watford this morning. not your average park. among others, saw a redwing, fieldfares, treecreepers, goldcrests and a siskin, the latter identified for the first time. heading home now very excited. it is an exceptional park, better maybe than any london park
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
ilx-searching 'cassiobury' leads to a short & pithy thread in which I posted, under my original nom de plume, perhaps one of my wringer posts. the thread also features peak nordicskilla
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 12:37 (nine years ago) link
wronger, even
but that siskin, right
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
loves his avians does lj
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
loves his avians
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
goldcrests are pretty chill admittedly
http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/130129.html
somewhat resembles the inimitable and dearly departed jeff
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Thursday, 5 February 2015 08:14 (nine years ago) link
loved his avians did jeff
loved his avians
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
In the 1980s, Azzam travelled throughout the Middle East, Europe and North America, including 50 cities in the United States, to raise money and preach about jihad. He inspired young Muslims with stories of miraculous deeds, mujahideen who defeated vast columns of Soviet troops virtually single-handed, who had been run over by tanks but survived, who were shot but unscathed by bullets.[22] Angels were witnessed riding into battle on horseback, and falling bombs were intercepted by birds, which raced ahead of the jets to form a protective canopy over the warriors.[22][23]
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 8 February 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgv5ixxgTsQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=152
those avians, my word
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 04:57 (nine years ago) link
a squirrel sitting upon the bough of a tree, eating some unidentified organic matteron the ground beneath, a robin waited for crumbs to fall
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Friday, 20 February 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link
I am not much of a birdwatcher (I like working by the river and seeing ducks and moorhens though) but lately the tree outside my flat window has had a busy gang of chaffinches* pecking all over it for about twenty minutes every day and then disappearing, and they make me very happy
also some yellower, smaller finches, same white λ-shaped flashes on the wings; not sure if siskins or greenfinches or something else entirely
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 20 February 2015 09:20 (nine years ago) link
this thread isn't really about birdwatching, but about LJ's foibles w/ re women
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Friday, 20 February 2015 09:23 (nine years ago) link
if you want to post about birds, that's cool too
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Friday, 20 February 2015 09:24 (nine years ago) link
They could be goldfinches too! Sarahell don't you feel this thread may have transcended its original purpose fairly quickly?
nakho's robin exuding a corvine cunning there, v heartening
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Friday, 20 February 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link
seen so many dunnocks recently, they whirr about slowly like moths
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Friday, 20 February 2015 11:25 (nine years ago) link
How much of a nightmare is it to own a bird? [Started by Josefa in February 2015, last updated 15 seconds ago by bojaxhiu mother derive (imago) on I Love Everything] 8 new answers
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:41 (nine years ago) link
so angry
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:42 (nine years ago) link
the avians you own, end up owning you
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:45 (nine years ago) link
corvids tend to peck at anything that glints, such as a human eye opening one morning
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:46 (nine years ago) link
Tom Jones, when very young, had presented Sophia with a little bird, which he had taken from the nest, had nursed up, and taught to sing.
Of this bird, Sophia, then about thirteen years old, was so extremely fond, that her chief business was to feed and tend it, and her chief pleasure to play with it. By these means little Tommy, for so the bird was called, was become so tame, that it would feed out of the hand of its mistress, would perch upon the finger, and lie contented in her bosom, where it seemed almost sensible of its own happiness; though she always kept a small string about its leg, nor would ever trust it with the liberty of flying away.
One day, when Mr Allworthy and his whole family dined at Mr Western's, Master Blifil, being in the garden with little Sophia, and observing the extreme fondness that she showed for her little bird, desired her to trust it for a moment in his hands. Sophia presently complied with the young gentleman's request, and after some previous caution, delivered him her bird; of which he was no sooner in possession, than he slipt the string from its leg and tossed it into the air.
The foolish animal no sooner perceived itself at liberty, than forgetting all the favours it had received from Sophia, it flew directly from her, and perched on a bough at some distance.
Sophia, seeing her bird gone, screamed out so loud, that Tom Jones, who was at a little distance, immediately ran to her assistance.
He was no sooner informed of what had happened, than he cursed Blifil for a pitiful malicious rascal; and then immediately stripping off his coat he applied himself to climbing the tree to which the bird escaped.
Tom had almost recovered his little namesake, when the branch on which it was perched, and that hung over a canal, broke, and the poor lad plumped over head and ears into the water.
― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:47 (nine years ago) link
Blifil, tree otm
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:49 (nine years ago) link
Blifil was a cunt as any fule kno
― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:51 (nine years ago) link
Read the first 1/3 of TJ maybe nine or ten years ago, can't recall
the tree was the most otm there
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:52 (nine years ago) link
some of these avians they have now
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:57 (nine years ago) link
gawjus
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
The little crew of waterfowl i pass on the way to work has added a very handsome tufted duck to its membership. Not sure if it got separated from a larger migrating flock but it seems to have been adopted.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Thursday, 26 February 2015 08:38 (nine years ago) link
who is in this crew
do you have names for them
do you imagine their characters & their place within the crew dynamic
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Thursday, 26 February 2015 08:59 (nine years ago) link
Eight to ten ducks, similar number of moorhen. Occasionally a heron will appear but it is not part of the crew.
I don't have names for them but have been thinking more about the dynamics since the tufted duck arrived. Like, can you just blow in from Iceland and be considered one of the boys overnight?
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Thursday, 26 February 2015 09:08 (nine years ago) link
these ducks are mallards right, or is there a red-crested pochard contingent? this is important as pochards are diving ducks, as with tufteds, and so there's a bit of commonality to cling to. yer gadwall/shoveler/mallard dabblers won't mix with what they'd surely regard as little diving inferiors, grebes with airs
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Thursday, 26 February 2015 09:12 (nine years ago) link
Yes, all mallards. idk, they seem to be getting on ok so far, but it's early days.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Thursday, 26 February 2015 09:19 (nine years ago) link
little diving inferiors, grebes with airs
how ILAFL sees ILE
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Thursday, 26 February 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
It might seem that this nameless bird was not in a position to reciprocate Tesla’s affections. And yet who could speak for this pigeon of pure white, with light gray tips on her wings? Who could say what she “felt” for the tall, melancholy, strangely dressed creature who fed, nursed, and caressed her? As with the love between two humans, or between Balthus and his cat Mitsou, or a human and an operating system like Samantha in the 2013 film Her, fully symmetrical affection is not the criterion by which we can determine whether love is in effect. We need not invoke the transmigration of souls to account for the connection or recognition that occurred. Nothing mystical need have taken place; no modern Ovid is necessary to account for the romantic sacrilege. Finitude is what all creatures share. No matter how carefully philosophers try to build a semantic or ontological wall between ourselves and other animals, we all perish. We all die. Humans may anticipate their end with more conscious and unconscious dread than do our fellow animals, but we need only see the survival instinct in action to appreciate that all creatures cling to life with furious intensity when the spark of their inexplicable existence is threatened.
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/55/pettman.php
― poc het ino (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Any ideas as to breed?
http://i.imgur.com/zfaqlYd.jpg?1
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 March 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
Ruddy Shelduck
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
(an introduced ornamental species like the Mandarin, Ruddy or Red-Crested Pochard)
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
Excellent. Thank you.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
Vowel-averse Swedish techno duo SHXCXCHCXSH return to Avian with a slick follow-up to their 'Strgths' album. 'VVVLLLLVVV' rolls out with sub-aquatic square bass pulses and eerie, almost Drexciyan synth pads, and 'MRRRWRRRDS' locks into heavier, bleeping rolige charged with cavalcade of churning toms and swarming synths. 'MRRRCHNNNN' is roughest of the pack, pumping pneumatic bass and pistoning hi-hats thru the silty murk at 20 knots.
― pom /via/ chi (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
In the psittacosis "parrot fever" panic of 1930, "One city health commissioner urged everyone who owned a parrot to wring its neck. People abandoned their pet parrots on the streets."[13]
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 29 March 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32863603/cracker.jpg
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Sunday, 29 March 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
grim
― u have wiked together fiords (imago), Sunday, 29 March 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
was reading about the passenger pigeon extinction recently, this might be the most horrifying extract on all of wikipedia:
One method of capture was to hunt at a nesting colony, particularly during the period of a few days after the adult pigeons abandoned their nestlings but before the nestlings could fly.[64] Some hunters used sticks to poke the nestlings out of the nest, while others shot the bottom of a nest with a blunt arrow to dislodge the pigeon.[64] Others cut down a nesting tree in such a way that when it fell, it would also hit a second nesting tree and dislodge the pigeons within.[64] Still another way was to simply set a nesting tree on fire, cooking the doves or collecting them as they tried to escape.[65][66] An extreme method, practiced only by particularly unscrupulous hunters, was to set fire to the base of a tree nested with pigeons, whereby the adults would free and the juveniles would fall to the ground, bursting open.[3]There were a wide variety of other methods that were used to capture and kill passenger pigeons. Sulfur was sometimes burned beneath the nesting tree to suffocate the birds, which fell out of the tree in a weakened state.[67] At least one trapper used alcohol-soaked grain as bait to intoxicate the birds and make them easier to kill.[68] Salt was also frequently used as bait, and many trappers set up near salt springs.[69] Stool pigeons, which traditionally were blinded, were also used to attract flocks of pigeons that thought that the stool pigeon had found food.[70]Low-flying pigeons could be killed by thrown sticks or stones.[68] At one site in Oklahoma, the pigeons leaving their roost every morning flew low enough that the Cherokee could throw clubs into their midst, which caused the lead pigeons to try to turn aside and in the process created a blockade that created a large mass of flying, easily hit pigeons.[68]Basket used to transport captured passenger pigeonsNets were propped up to allow passenger pigeons entry, then closed by knocking loose the stick that supported the opening, trapping twenty or more pigeons inside.[71] Tunnel nets were also used to great effect, and one particularly large net was capable of catching 3,500 pigeons at a time.[72] These nets were used by many farmers on their own property as well as by professional trappers.[73]Passenger pigeons were shot with such ease that many did not consider them to be a game bird, as an amateur hunter could easily bring down six with one shotgun blast; a particularly good shot with both barrels of a shotgun at a roost could kill 61 birds.[74][75] They were frequently shot either in flight during migration or immediately after, when they traditionally perched in dead, exposed trees.[74] The pigeons did prove difficult to shoot head-on, so hunters typically waited for the flocks to pass overhead before shooting them.[76] Trenches were sometimes dug and filled with grain so that a hunter could shoot the pigeons along this trench.[76]
There were a wide variety of other methods that were used to capture and kill passenger pigeons. Sulfur was sometimes burned beneath the nesting tree to suffocate the birds, which fell out of the tree in a weakened state.[67] At least one trapper used alcohol-soaked grain as bait to intoxicate the birds and make them easier to kill.[68] Salt was also frequently used as bait, and many trappers set up near salt springs.[69] Stool pigeons, which traditionally were blinded, were also used to attract flocks of pigeons that thought that the stool pigeon had found food.[70]
Low-flying pigeons could be killed by thrown sticks or stones.[68] At one site in Oklahoma, the pigeons leaving their roost every morning flew low enough that the Cherokee could throw clubs into their midst, which caused the lead pigeons to try to turn aside and in the process created a blockade that created a large mass of flying, easily hit pigeons.[68]
Basket used to transport captured passenger pigeonsNets were propped up to allow passenger pigeons entry, then closed by knocking loose the stick that supported the opening, trapping twenty or more pigeons inside.[71] Tunnel nets were also used to great effect, and one particularly large net was capable of catching 3,500 pigeons at a time.[72] These nets were used by many farmers on their own property as well as by professional trappers.[73]
Passenger pigeons were shot with such ease that many did not consider them to be a game bird, as an amateur hunter could easily bring down six with one shotgun blast; a particularly good shot with both barrels of a shotgun at a roost could kill 61 birds.[74][75] They were frequently shot either in flight during migration or immediately after, when they traditionally perched in dead, exposed trees.[74] The pigeons did prove difficult to shoot head-on, so hunters typically waited for the flocks to pass overhead before shooting them.[76] Trenches were sometimes dug and filled with grain so that a hunter could shoot the pigeons along this trench.[76]
fwiw i still inwardly apologise to woodpigeons, for those bursting to dub me Hypocrite
― u have wiked together fiords (imago), Sunday, 29 March 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
The vultures (Cathartes urubu, Coragyps atratus foetens) fell upon him, devoured first of all the lizards, and then attacked the body of the unfortunate youth, beginning with his buttocks. Pain restored him to consciousness, and the hero drove off his attackers which, however, had completely gnawed away his hindquarters. Having eaten their fill, the birds were prepared to save his life; taking hold of his belt and the strips of cotton round his arms and legs with their beaks, they lifted him into the air and deposited him gently at the foot of the mountain.
The hero regained consciousness “as if he were awaking from a dream.” He was hungry and ate wild fruits but noticed that since he had no rectum, he was unable to retain the food, which passed through his body without even being digested. The youth was at first nonplussed and then remembered a tale told him by his grandmother, in which the hero solved the same problem by molding for himself an artificial behind out of dough made from pounded tubers.
http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/sites/default/files/pdf/class_text_056.pdf
― drash, Sunday, 29 March 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Due to their short wings, auks have to flap their wings very quickly in order to fly.
― Albanic Kanun Autark (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 April 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
those avians
― nakhchivan, Friday, 24 April 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/27/lazio-eagle-attacked-crow
― LMAO. GOLD Chrisso. regards, REB (nakhchivan), Monday, 27 April 2015 13:06 (nine years ago) link
eagle mascot is some proper spqr shit
― carles the jekyll (imago), Monday, 27 April 2015 13:10 (nine years ago) link
Jesus christ, that picture!
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link