Rolling Avian Issues Thread

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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2:10 PM - 31 Dec 2015

Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying

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

took like 30 binocular-zoomed photos of what i assumed was an exotic falcon species in cyprus recently, turns out it was a common kestrel

kestrels are dope tho

Yup. One thing I'll miss about living in methil is that one of the old guys here keeps pigeons,which I enjoyed hanging out with.

damn why wasn't i at that messiaen thing

yh obv it was still a beautiful bird posing magnificently before a lighthouse

i might post a photo

http://i.imgur.com/Ho4moUB.jpg

dignified bird

immensely so

i saw a barred owl, during the day, on saturday. i had never seen an owl irl before in the wild.

im fostering a pomeranian right now and the owl looked at him in a way that caused me some panic.

on reflection it was possibly a barn owl

post pics of the pom, por favor!

http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv105/NAPOLEONROFL/dog/Screen%20Shot%202017-06-26%20at%2010.07.22%20AM.png

trying to work out which avians would be able to turn the aforepictured into lunch

perhaps the very largest strigiforms

yeah he likely wouldn't have had much of a chance of eating him but he did stare at him quite intently. the dog didn't realize what was going on so i picked him up, the owl followed us for a short time - well we walked further along the trail and he flew from behind us to in front of us twice before deciding to stay perched on the branch and no bother with us anymore.

adorable!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50180781

Russian scientists tracking migrating eagles ran out of money after some of the birds flew to Iran and Pakistan and their SMS transmitters drew huge data roaming charges.

After learning of the team's dilemma, Russian mobile phone operator Megafon offered to cancel the debt and put the project on a special, cheaper tariff.

The team had started crowdfunding on social media to pay off the bills.

The birds left from southern Russia and Kazakhstan.

The journey of one steppe eagle, called Min, was particularly expensive, as it flew to Iran from Kazakhstan.

Min accumulated SMS messages to send during the summer in Kazakhstan, but it was out of range of the mobile network. Unexpectedly the eagle flew straight to Iran, where it sent the huge backlog of messages.

The price per SMS in Kazakhstan was about 15 roubles (18p; 30 US cents), but each SMS from Iran cost 49 roubles. Min used up the entire tracking budget meant for all the eagles.

looool

they are getting louder during this time of quarantine

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52779727

Plucky water bird stabs eagle in heart with beak

Canada v US: Loon stabs eagle through heart

i wonder what the most outrageous birdfight upset of all time is. inevitably unseen by human eye. 45,000 years ago a sparrow offed a swan, kind of thing