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Immortal, undying edition
All our hard fucking work. Gone ):
Welp, blue jays found the berries. I think I heard a veery in there this morning too and robins have been at it for a while. They don't taste good to humans until after a frost then they taste like little tomatoes.
Oh yeah the veery was notable because it was making a sound like it's usual "veer" call which you know if you have them around... but it was trilled like it was throwing in a bit of it's song at the beginning. You had to be there. Nobody cares except me. It was cool though.
Do you believe?
Bros wtf a squirrel just attacked my raven friend. I guess the raven got too close and the squirrel like scratched it in the face. Fuck that squirrel!
the squirrel has been converted to raven food. I hope raven bro's eye is ok.
How do I protect my birds from getting infections? i had a finch with a horrible infection and I am afraid he's going to die because of it.
>>4867013You soak bread/rice with bird antibiotics.
>>4867013Vaccinate them
>>4865800>That bird looks like a lambdaGordon Birdman?
I just heard a carolina wren singing. They are usually supposed to be south of me by a hundred miles. I wonder if this one is migrating north a bit before heading south. Or could just be a nearby resident that's migrating through, range maps aren't always right.
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My boy still doing well. Looks like he fully recovered from paratyphoid despite his wing still looking a bit fucked up. He can fly and he even has a gf.
Refresh my memory, what bird was it that would walk on its balled up fists? I think it had to do with walking in hot desert sands or maybe swamps or something.
>>4867489never heard of it can you describe it?
>>4867525Tall and upright, more like a Secretary Bird than a Flamingo, but with the same kind of walking-on-stilts movement. Not really a notable plumage as far as I can remember but my recollection is so thin I'm not sure I didn't make it up.
>>4865800I was eating outdoors today giving crumbles to a cute little sparrow, the staff said they'd never seen him linger that long
>>4867727Bustard bird? cant find walking method
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>>4865800>Animal that shits wherever indoors all the timeNo I will not appreciate birds
>>4868535>Animal that shits wherever indoors all the timeYou clearly have never owned a bird
Thanks to the anon who responded to my comment in the last thread. I plan to emigrate to the USA somewhere in the coming years to build a homestead with lots of animals. The ducks will have an outdoor enclosure around a water source (to protect them from birds of prey) so the eggs would be easy to find. I might keep chickens as well for a more consistent source of eggs besides that.
Why are birds so fucking gorgeous?!
>>4869103Ttriune brain
>>4867468Good luck to the boy and his gf
>>4869103so gorgeous
I used to be obsessed with Puffins, don't know why, maybe autism or something.
I sprayed roundup on my driveway yesterday and today turkeys are laying on it and eating it. Are turkeys attracted to glyphosate?
>>4869163they're pretty based, their rhamphotheca is cool.
>>4865800I'll post a few shitty pics of seabirds I took at the beach last week. I need to get me a good birding camera.Starting with a Least Tern
>>4869872Not sure what these are, they were small and stuck with eachother when they moved. ID would be appreciated!
>>4869874Its the Texas coast btwFinally a sand piper perusing the beach.
If Vlad the impaler was a fucking bird.
>>4866059BEHOLD! A MAN!
I seen a veery eating berries in my autumn olive this morning. Robins are really loving it. Catbirds and starlings too. Wish I'd see some waxwings I've never seen those before but I know they like berries.
I love watching these cute critters bathe
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>>4870143I remember seeing this bird and its bush full of impaled mice on the Animals of Farthing Wood cartoon. Bit grim for young me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDwWiqAa8w Majestic
>>4872623so beautiful
Dinosaurs don't have feathers
>>4869872>Least Ternnot with that honker and party mullet
>>4871676>>4870143wait is this real, or are you guys joking?metal of real
>>4873203Shrikes are very real, and really do this.
Great Blue Heron
>>4873143What is it then? Thats what iNaturalist said but it may be off because my phone camera a shit.
>>4873260nvm quick google search said Royal Tern.
>>4873205crazy,also, I like how he just phased through the fence
>>4873259B+ Blue Heron desu
>>4873519it was so far away and my super zoom maxes at 300mm but because of technical stuff I don't quite understand, it's apparently actually now like 235mm or something like that. I cropped like crazy and was surprised it wasn't just a blob of color lmao
uploading some oc that i wanna hang up in my living room>eastern bluebirds
>>4874210red shouldered hawk
>>4874211great blue heron
>>4874214mallards
>>4874215gray catbird
>>4874216common grackle, most based bird
I saw a buzzard attack a pigeon in the centre of my city yesterday it was metal as fuck I stood too close and probably scared him so he flew off and the pigeon livedkind of felt bad for the buzziehe needs his food or else he'll die :(
>>4865800Anyone have some emus? Funny little guys.
>>4873519Watching raptors fight is always a great delight (especially with large size differences)Probably the impetus for many a budding fujo in a better world
>>4867468>>4869148saw him with his gf todayI'm so happy for him because I really thought he wasn't gonna make it.
>>4874216I love them
Baby goldfinches found my bird bath and were all drinking out of it and taking little splashy baths while the adults were eating flower seeds in my garden I'm so happy. Goldfinch breeding time is the best time of year. But I know they will be gone in a couple weeks when the adults start to molt and I won't see them until November.
>>4865800I like doves but they're a bit too gluttonous. They don't let the Cardinals, Blue Jays or Titmice eat.
>>4875337My doves get scared off a lot so there's always a chance for the other birds to eat. Also got some feeders they don't really fit in with roofs, the small birdies use those more and doves stick to the more open feeders.
I hear a blue headed vireo singing, pretty sure. Cool.
>>4875456It's quiet, maybe practice-singing? Breeding season is over but I know some birds sing in the fall for practice, especially young ones that are just figuring out how to do it.
>>4866059wtf
I love to playfight with this lil nibba so much. While he's hyper focused on his attempts to draw blood from the skin between my fingers I can hold him whichever way, flip him sideways, slightly pinch his neck, squeeze his cheeks, open his wings, etc. Not a fuck given.Then as soon as I pet his head he instantly enters comfy mode. Not even my dog was this autistic.His daughter-girlfriend in the background however isn't playful, just wants to sleep in the palm of my hand.
>>4865800 I have been thinking on getting a bird. I live in an apartment next to a river. Do you guys have any idea?
can someone identify this bird for me?
>>4876475baby hornbill of some sort, ground maybe
oh fuck just caught a grackle eating a baby goldfinch head first. at least it was already dead when I got to it ...
>>4877981I think the poor thing just landed next to it to eat and the grackle said hmm... this looks better than peanuts
>>4868535You can train them a fair bit with this. My bird is laying with me now when one of us is done cuddling I'll ask her if she has to go in the garbage and she will.
love wins
>>4878128Why are they like this?
>>4865800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTXeGPcwVbg
>>4873259Is this one?
Thousands must get swooped
>>4880654Same Magpie when a Hawk flies near its nest
A little magnolia warbler ran itself into one of my windows and broke its neck. ): What new lifers has everyone gotten? Saw the Nashville warbler, magnolia warbler, and eastern wood pewee the last few weeks.
>>4881152That sucks. I had a goldfinch splat into a window. Then a grackle killed and ate one as it was trying to use a bird feeder. Yesterday I watched a raven on my back deck hunting a squirrel. I've never seen them be such aggressive predators, I feed them dead squirrels but actually I only kill gray squirrels and it was hunting a red squirrel. Stared at it longingly from the railing, then jumped down and tried to chase it and grab it. They're not good predator birds and the squirrel was too fast for it, but unusual to see. The squirrel didn't seem to understand it was being hunted and kept going back to eating and the raven tried multiple times to catch it.
I think I hear a young chickadee practicing singing. Keeps making a whistle sound that kind of sounds like a chickadee 3-note song but it's quieter and out of tune.
>>4866077Nothing would make my life complete like learning that the Imperial or the Ivory-billed woodpecker was still alive in some remote part of Mexico or Cuba.
>>4869103how she looks at you before striking her talons in your arteries
I love in Delaware. It's September. Why the FUCK did I see two eagles do the death spiral mating dance thing on Saturday while I was sat on my porch waiting for Amazon? They don't typically do that around here until February. Also, anyone else live somewhere with way too many eagles?
Couple of these cunts have laid some eggs in their reused nest from last year in my backyard.Thinking of setting up a webcam but don't know if I can be fucked.Annoying cunts won't even let me enter my own backyard without having a meltdown. You'd think after two years they'd realise I'm not after their eggs.
>>4882596Birds are dumb like that
>>4871534I need to aquire that neck move
>>4882596What do they do that makes you think they're melting down?
>>4882816Swoop the ever loving fuck out of me.
>>4870839That's a dinosaur
I have a question about eating birds. I'm not a big meat eater.The only birds I've eaten are turkey, duck, and chicken; they taste broadly pretty similar (though duck is too oily for me to stomach). Meanwhile, pork, beef, and mutton all taste super different. Do birds in general all taste the same or is it just the ones that happen to be commonly eaten?
>>4882855You've deficient taste buds. While I can understand MAYBE confusing chicken for turkey, duck tastes nothing like either. Nor does faraona (not sure the English word and can't be fucked up look it up; they're basically fluffy, blue, edible dinosaurs), pigeon, quail, goose or pheasant. Well, quail sort of.
European penguins
>>4876553Politics are gay. You're gay
>>4882855Ostrich hits different
I'm looking for a good reference because I want to draw something with the same number of bones as a raven skeleton, but when I look for images, there are only pictures of fake skeletons or skeletons of other birdswhen I just use text, I can't get the results I wantis there a book or diagram explaining a raven's osteology?
Ooooh I see a baby goldfinch begging and its mother is feeding it so cute! They must have done a second nest, most babies were out a month ago.
>>4882588Saw them again the other day. No death spiral, just flying about together. I didn't know bald eagles went that high. Hawks and falcons don't.I'm gonna try to take video at some point but I'm generally rubbish at all phone camera-ing. Anyone else have eagles nearby acting strangely?
but birds aren't real.
https://youtu.be/UQESuntRr_0?si=kHtXzSHPGpX-y6v-this really fucked me up
Post unsung birds
>wake up >put out bird seed>oh look a blue jay >oh look another blue jay>2 hours later>bird seed gone>12 angry blue jays
there's a bunch of swallows nesting in my coophow do I tell these buggers it's almost winter and they should get the hell out?
>>4888657Those look like they might be jueveniles, they should be leaving the nest of their own accord soon. once they clear out patch up the hole they're getting by, if you can. I've only ever had them nesting on the outside of my coop, under the peak of the roof.
My 5 year old budgie is sick and the vet likely said he'll live for another year or go as fast as a few months. It's a tumor they can't operate on. I feel so bad bros. I am making him comfy and gonna try fixing the cage so its easier for him to move. Both his feet aren't working like they should but he's otherwise his usual self. People will think I'm stupid for caring bout my little bird but he's such a good boy. End blogpost.
who likes geese
Couldn't get a pic of it but seen a beautiful light purple almost lavender bird with an orange chest. I live in NC borderline VA area (could literally walk across the border within the hour) and after a little bit of googling the closest match I could get is the Eastern Bluebird (image related). Which not only be blue instead of purple but even the orange is extremely dull. Is it possible I seen something else or did I just so happen to spot one of the most beautiful and possibly mutated Eastern Bluebird I could had possibly ever seen? I doubtful I am mistaken or it could been the lighting, it was a sunny day with it being in direct sunlight and it stood still enough for me to get a good long look at it, just not long enough to pull out my phone when thinking about it and getting to the photo app.
>>4889036Lighting does affect the blue coloration since it's created by refraction rather than pigmentation.
>>4888970fuck those people your budgie is a good boy. whats his diet? all seed diet can develop fat deposit. buy food scale check his weigh every week. Australian budgie weigh 25 to 36 grams English budgie weigh 45 to 63 gramNamihei is a famous 4 year old budgie with tumor maybe find advice of owner blog starting 2017 >https://yukariusagi.blogspot.com/2017/01/
>>4889624Unfortunately seed. I've tried feeding him fruits, veggies, and pellets since I've had him, but he's stubborn. I was given a vitamin+probiotic powder to put on his food for now, and now I'm just letting him live the life. I will start weighing him.
Upstate NY anon here. Is it time to take down my hummingbird feeders? Temperature will soon be 39°F this week, daily highs barely go over 60°F. My granny is telling me to keep them up until Halloween, but I haven't seen any hummingbirds in a few weeks now.
>>4890463Yeah I took mine down a few days ago
>>4890546that's a weird snapping turtle
>>4888651Does Bird's Ureters connect to some kind of bladder, or do they go straight up to the intestine?If it's the latter, could one say that in the case of avians "Pee is stored in the anus"?
https://youtu.be/5Y1ItZDV3gc?si=TKCxdmNt69YddZ6s
>>4891088The 3 lobed kidney attaches directly to the intestine, no bladder.Their mouth is just a hole. Instead of having a mouth and stomach they have a 3 part system with a pouch that holds and softens food, a tube that mixes it with digestive juices, and another pouch that churns it around with swallowed rocks to break it down.Most are unable to physically swallow.Their brains regenerate neurons at such a high rate they can be observed restructuring themselves significantly as seasons change.Despite being highly intelligent they can't realize a UV reflective window is a barrier despite it clearly reflecting light, unless a rationally impossible condition (a floating, static object does not exist in nature, it must be attached to something, ie: transparent barrier) is created.They are the strangest advanced animals ever.
>>4889036Might just be that it's a female eastern bluebird. Their colors are less vibrant than a male's.
Can birdbros figure out who I painted?
Hawk chasing the blue jays again. I swear they think it's funny or at least harmless. Looks like a young sharp shinned.
oh raven just showed up and chased it
>>4878841What is this species exactly? I can't finding. Is it young or some weird mutation?
>>4892584http://185.10.68.107:1776/bannum/1376014/
sorry best I've got are geese
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>>4895022she's so beautiful
>>4891399CONK-LA-REEE
I'm starting to learn about birds. I'll be working on helping them over-winter at my place. I plan on planting winterberry shrubs there in the next year or two, for example. Here is another way I'm doing my part. I have never raked the leaves as my place.
>>4897004There was a brown thrasher occasionally around my feeders in the spring and summer. They're pretty rare where I live and so the little guy was a delight whenever I saw him.
I hate seeing roadkill. I saw like 2 dead stork this year alone and 0 alive storks.
I was watchin the Cornell Feederwatch livestream and saw this moment which I think does a good job at showing the size difference between a Hairy woodpecker and a Downy woodpecker.
>>4865800Theres been an Osprey hanging around my parents house. Is it possible to befriend it?
>>4898426I don't try too hard to figure out the difference, if I see a big one I just assume it's a hairy. The bird certainly doesn't care if I'm wrong.
>>4891943Mary, Queen of Scots?
My new favorite bird.
>>4873519>>4874396>Watching raptors fight is always a great delight (especially with large size differences)
13 cardinals tonight, a new record.
pidgehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUCwf0LWVsI
>>4893793Siberian or "Lee's Pure Albidus"?
>>4866059Bro is doing the Big Bird stance.
dark eyed juncos here already. seems early this year.
How can I get these QTs at my feeder? I'm upstate NY.
Memes aside, how can we protect birds from the absolute flood of house cats that people just let roam freely?
>>4902075Wild house cats or pet house cats?
>>4902075stop dragging this into every thread. it's 90% you arguing with yourself to stir up shit anyway
>>4901741Peanuts mixed in sunflower seeds. And keep your feeder as close to the woods as possible, they are woodland birds, but they will fly out a bit if they see other birds visiting. I got like 2 or 3 pairs of them around my property that visit daily, not a lot but they make themselves obvious with noise, they always announce themselves.I have a lot more chickadees like dozens of them, the titmice associate with them and so if you can attract chickadees you will probably get titmice too. Also they tend to completely disappear in the summer, after they stop singing for breeding season you could think they are just gone but they will show back up in the fall.
saw this lil fella last nightwhat kinda owl is it?
>>4903129here's another picin central illinois btw
>>4903129>>4903131looks like an eastern screech owl
>>4903140ah thanks, it does look the partthese guys are pretty cute
>>4903156here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ
>>4903157wtf is that real
tufted titmouse
>>4865800>:(
>>4872623Top tier avians in terms of looks
>Juncos finally start to show up a few days agoYay!>Looks like one exploded in my yard today:(Down and bloody feathers scattered everywhere, I can't even figure out what got the little dude. I'm leaning towards the damn hawks that have been hanging out around my feeders every winter for the past two years but there's enough stray/outdoor cats hanging around that I can't really rule it out even though it looks way too violent for a cat hit and grab.Oh well, it is what it is, nothing I can really do outside of taking down all the feeders right as it's getting cold or putting a pellet in random cats. I just hope they don't all get spooked away from my yard because of it.
>>4903168why yes it is
>>4904944Mine won't wear his judenhut
Favourite bird?
>>4906033great black-backed gull
>>4906033Kea
>>4904442is this a dead bird? this is abuse. once my bird got stuck in a food wrapper sticker and was painful to remove.
>>4906309theyre gonna get x-ray'd
>>4906309see >>4906311That's what you have to do to get a viable x-ray of the wings.
>>4906407>>4906311vet using scotch tape? they can't afford medical tape to ease the pain? What kind of retarded practice is that anyway. why not cover the contact area with surgical mesh or some fucking tissues...
>>4906672>hurrr durr ist aminal aboose durrdid not look like scotch tape to me, it is going to be some kind of radiolucent adhesive tape to not interfere with the xrays.Here's an artical, it's a common practice. The image that was deleted follows this article perfectly. It was 100% done by a trained individual for the purpose of xraying.https://veteriankey.com/avian-and-exotic-radiography/
went birding with my crush from work last week. this week she bought me an old book about hawks, falcons, and eagles from the cool bookstore. feels good, boys.
>>4906854didn't answer, why not cover the contact area with mesh? is it also common practice to stop critical thinking? its a shit practice if a layman can think of a better method. medical practices should evolve just because it is written in a book doesn't make it any less retarded. the fact that the practice didn't change to accommodate an easy solution means no one gives a shit.
>out feeding the local corvids>jackdaw sees me from far away, starts to intercept me>it lands on thin vertical trees, looking at me sideways>say holy shit crow you're so fucking cool holy shit>it says i'm a jackdaw>me bad i got excited
>>4907560The Scarlet Ibis.I regulary donate to them at a zoo in my area. Picture related.
I found birds at the park.
>>4876700>ara ara
I just fed a chickadee out of my hands for the first time. It felt wonderful.
>live in midgard>local corvids seem to wake up with the sun around 7-8>they go about their day, trying to find food that isn't there>sun goes down around 4-5 in the afternoon>well lads, time to pack it up>i guess they now spend the night just sitting in their nest for over 12 hours >in the cold and without any food>and it's not even winter yethow do they survive?
>>4867013Identify possible environmental causes why a bird could get infected, then eliminate them.
>>4895331why are they so fat
