Rolling Avian Issues Thread

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

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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.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/sep/12/brainy_bird_alex_parrot_dies/

an avian with issues

chillness index of fauna

definitely of the DSM variety

http://www.facebook.com/AvianUK

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bravians

Re: I quit art school

Post by avian-reader » May 17th, 2013, 11:04 am

If all fails of course, you could always go into politics. It worked for Hitler, his paintings are famous now :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKDbhUf--Yo

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u shd sample that yelp for something

the nerve on some of these avians now

My neighbor found a Japanese Quail. I believe I ran into someone who said they raised exotic birds at a neighborhood party recently, but didn't catch his name or which house he lived in. I think it was on Van Buren near Euclid. She tried knocking on doors in the area, but no one is home right now. If anyone knows who this might be (or knows of someone who would like to take care of the bird) please let me know. Thanks.

Wittgenstein had taken a particular interest in the different kinds of birds that are to be seen at Killary. (Northern Divers, Cormorants, Curlews, Oyster Catchers, Puffins and Terns are all fairly common along that part of the west Ireland coast.) At first he used to ask Tommy to identify the birds for him. He would describe a bird he had seen, and Tommy would do his best to name it, although, as he freely admits: ‘maybe it wasn’t always the right name I gave him’. Having caught him out a few times, Wittgenstein relied instead on the illustrated handbooks sent to him by Drury.

In order to gain a better view of the sea-birds, Wittgenstein wanted to build a hut on one of the small islands of the Killary coast. He was eventually dissuaded from this by Tommy (whose job it would have been to construct it) on the grounds that a small wooden hut would not be strong enough to withstand the exposed conditions on the island. Instead, Tommy took Wittgenstein out in a rowing-boat; while Tommy rowed, Wittgenstein would either look out for sea-birds or sit silently in contemplation. Occasionally, while out in the boat, they would chat, Wittgenstein reminiscing about his time in Norway, when he would have to row across the fjord to fetch his supplies, and Tommy answering Wittgenstein’s questions about the history of Killary.

Wittgenstein took an interest, too, in the more domestic birds, the robins and chaffinches, that used to come to the cottage in search of crumbs. He would encourage them by leaving food out for them, and eventually they grew so tame that they would come to him at the kitchen window, and eat off his hand. When he left Rosro he gave Tommy some money with which to buy food to provide for the birds, who had now come to expect a daily feed. By the time Tommy next visited the cottage, however, he found the birds’ tameness had been their undoing. While waiting by the window to be fed, they had fallen easy prey to the local cats.

When I was a boy I was bothered in listening to birds, because it obviously isn’t singing. Finally someone said to me, ‘All right, don’t call it singing, call it something else’. And soon I could listen to birds and enjoy it.

the other day i saw a (living, cephalically intact) owl for the first time, at about 11:30pm on a close, still evening perched in a bough of a tree at the end of the lane next to the house i was visiting

there is a small cluster of trees there adjoining some ancient deciduous woodland and there is very evident strigiform activity, although inverting the victorian childhood norm they prefer to express themselves in song

this one had managed to situate itself just so that it was lit from underneath by an old halogen street lamp, and it stayed there for several minutes, contorting itself once in the manner of a pigeon but otherwise static and silent

in near-silhouette it looked perhaps the size of a large corvid, but somewhat hencher and immeasurably more dignified, until the noise of a car passing in the adjoining road caused it to scarper onto the denser foliage of an adjoining underbranch

then it lay in wait for several minutes more until without warning it suddenly took off, unfurling its considerable wingspan and catapulting forward itself with twitchy explosivity and low stance until it disappeared into the trees at an arc suggestive of lethal intent

...provoking some of your most effulgent prosody this side of 2013, o lambent strigiform! was this one heard as well as seen?

static and silent if the rumours are to be believed

it is possible the ambient gurgle of a seated owl resembles radio static

double glazing would have done for any low-amplitude noises, i daresay the swoop of the creature exploding out of the tree would have been audible outside given its power and the shaking of the branches

what sort of owl do you think it might have been?

so much dignity, that really can't be emphasized enough, if it didn't seem too fond of cars then that was probably bashfulness or haughtiness rather than anything like fear

Given its corvid dimensions, not a little owl. Given nocturnality, probably not a short- or long-eared owl. I would aver tawny, whose dignity will have been manifest.

I'm walking across Clapham Common rn and there is a disappointing lack of owls

Oh, I lie - the short-eared is diurnal but the long-eared not - we have another contender. I would study images of both tawny and long-eared before committing

difficult to get much sense of colour but it looked lightish, did not have long ears, and the wingtips looked a lot like this

http://i.imgur.com/o8e2zl1.jpg

so combined with its size, tawny owl seems right

have you seen one, or other owls?

or maybe, have you seen one of the nocturnal species unexpectedly, since if you are prepared and have the time they are probably not all that difficult to glimpse, but seeing one reasonably well illuminated and not far away was a privilege

I have seen Barn & Little Owls by day, Tawny by night (in Italy rather than Britain though) - the Little Owl had to be pointed out to me roosting in a tree by a confirmed bird maven, it was almost completely camouflaged

effulgent

yes

What kind of bird is(was) this? 47m ago
Lynn Harris from Adams Point
Photo from Lynn Harris
Is it a chicken of some sort? I saw it earlier this morning running around my backyard. When it saw me, it ran under the fence into the neighboring yard. Looks like it came back and, unfortunately, my dog got it. I'm very sorry if this was your pet.

ahaha oh dear

The bird is a Japanees Quail. There is a man who raises them in his back yard. He lives on Van Buren in the apartment behind the house. The house is between Euclid and MacArthur on the south side if the street -- the second house from the corner (not counting the house on the corner that faces Euclid). there are cars parked in front and a porch with steps going up the left side to the porch. The man lives in the building that is in the back yard. They seem to get out often.

http://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/8/1407507298274/Bee-eater-014.jpg?w=1920&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=9e29fcd373005d9b0a8cab1a5308f03c

what the fuck is going on here

your theories please

that dragonfly(?), like all of us, lured by todestrieb

birds & bees
aw romantic

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

i don't know why it's swallowing a dragonfly. perhaps it'll die.

Halcyon days of ilxors past

― Treeship, Thursday, 29 August 2013 00:46 (2 years ago)

oh the bee-eater is just tossing the dragonfly into a more swallowable orientation, as evidenced in that video

should have been obvious all along

trís inadvertently reminding me that that i saw a kingfisher for the first time in surrey last week, quite the most distinguished of insular riparian avianry and a worthy rival to its sylvan counterpart of the other month

now the webpages will tell you that it flies very fast very low to the surface of the water, this really doesn't convey quite how fast and low it was travelling, for a second it merely registered as a projectile of unknown quality, its aviformity discernable only subsequent to apprehension of its cobalt/turquoise livery (which would in any case be an apt camouflage for an antiship cruise missile)

then it, presumably it or possibly another one, strafed the opposite bank a few minutes later, this time seeming more orange whereas previously more blue, one would not be apt to think these mere perceptual errata

so without even trying or spending more than a marginal amount of time in proximity to 'nature', the two rarae aves of interest have been sighted, at least other than eagles or hummingbirds or others seldom found in london or the home counties, one is tempted to suggest that such serendipitious sightings are the most valuable

the halcyon is a dichotomous projectile - cobalt above to blend in with the waters, orange below to evade detection coming in with the sun behind it

did i write here about the sighting of a kingfisher within a minute of taking rarissima avis to my favourite nature reserve for the first time? again, it came in fast and low, and at some distance, but it was unmistakeable even for her

and of course you're right - catching a glimpse of the unexpected avian is usually far more rewarding than that sought-out

of course, there's a grey area, when one is walking in the hope of meeting some unusual species, but this hope is secondary to the movement itself. my recent scottish adventures have provided ample satiation of this dual urge, along with an opportunity to practice and perfect the noble art of binocular-enhanced cellphone photography

that post is about yr sex life, yes?

the heheheherican possibiities will have been alluded to

ugh, so puerile

the fact that the phrase "ample satiation of this dual urge" has obvious sexual connotations did not cross your mind at all when you typed it, come on!