Bird appreciation thread.

[LockedHDD__Pot]

Saw one of these Pileated Wookpeckers in the back yard last week. Largest woodpecker I ever saw.

big peckah. tsss

I'm sorry I did that

 

[Duxbury Dave]

Green cheeked conure owner... birds fucking rule.

 

[The Greaseman]

I'm pretty pro-bird.

Usually have one of these around my place, always fun to see

 

[LockedHDD__Pot]

we used to care for a young magpie, he hung around & ended-up bringing his brood to the garage eaves the next year... lil fucker would imitate our phone ringtones.
this isn't an actual pic but closest I could find

 

[cardwell]

WWAWD Greenaway

 

[Patrick O'Neal]

Toucans watch pretty good.

Ostriches are probably the only bird I don't like. Revolting.

Seagulls are assholes but I kind of like how arrogant they are.

 

[FrogmanKurlan]

Their pee is acidic as fuck and they piss on themselves (technically not piss) to kill the bacteria that they may encounter from eating carrion- the "pee" goes down their legs and may act as an antiseptic for cuts abd wounds they may have on their legs.

The only reason I know this is because at my Dad's old house in Orlando, there were fucking hundreds of vultures that would congregate across the street from his house (there was an empty lot). They would be all over the roofs of houses and occasionally go in the backyards and kind of knock on the sliding glass doors. When I say hundreds, it could have been a thousand or so. It was fucking crazy. And then one day, poof- they were gone. None of ny dad's neighbors could figure out what made them leave. One theory was that the HOA might have installed some kind of high pitch frequency that only affected the vultures. I say that because the dogs behaviors never changed nor was the behavior of the other birds in the neighborhood (Ospreys, swans, ducks, and a couple of other random birds).

Yeah I had heard that if they rest on the same tree enough that the tree will die from their shit.

One of our neighbors had a bad experience with a buzzard one time. He was driving down the road and there were a few buzzards on the side eating something. As he was driving by they took off and one of them gets hit by his side mirror and comes in through the open window. The buzzards starts puking and shitting all inside the truck. The guy had to pull over because he starts puking everywhere.
He said he could never get the smell out of the truck and had to give it away to one of the Mexicans that worked on his ranch

 

[EraGodless]

Yeah I had heard that if they rest on the same tree enough that the tree will die from their shit.

One of our neighbors had a bad experience with a buzzard one time. He was driving down the road and there were a few buzzards on the side eating something. As he was driving by they took off and one of them gets hit by his side mirror and comes in through the open window. The buzzards starts puking and shitting all inside the truck. The guy had to pull over because he starts puking everywhere.
He said he could never get the smell out of the truck and had to give it away to one of the Mexicans that worked on his ranch

Lol. I believe it's a defense mechanism. It's called The Tomlinson Reaction to Confrontation.

 

[RedHeadpw2]

Yeah I had heard that if they rest on the same tree enough that the tree will die from their shit.

One of our neighbors had a bad experience with a buzzard one time. He was driving down the road and there were a few buzzards on the side eating something. As he was driving by they took off and one of them gets hit by his side mirror and comes in through the open window. The buzzards starts puking and shitting all inside the truck. The guy had to pull over because he starts puking everywhere.
He said he could never get the smell out of the truck and had to give it away to one of the Mexicans that worked on his ranch

The smell was identical to that Mexican's Dodge Astro, so no problem.

 

[Jenna]

I remember waiting for a train once and killing 15 minutes throwing pieces of bun from a burger I was eating in between two pigeons and seeing which of them got to the bread first.

 

[aRTie02150]

Buzzards are pretty cool for being ugly motherfuckers.

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“I’ve been called sexy.”

The other day I saw some buzzards eating a dead skunk and when I had came back by a group of Ravens had bullied them off the carcass. I thought that was funny because a buzzard is easily 5x the size of a raven

They're extremely important to the ecosystem.

In India they fucked up and wiped out a bunch of vultures which ended up causing diseases for the general population.

Ravens and crows are very good at making predators go away by annoying the fuck out of them as they're eating. Pretty hilarious.

 

[FrogmanKurlan]

They're extremely important to the ecosystem.

In India they fucked up and wiped out a bunch of vultures which ended up causing diseases for the general population.

Yeah they’re federally protected in the US.

 

[Slackjawed Cow]

Here is a live cam on a bald eagle nest if you want to get a bird fix.

Big Bear Bald Eagle Live Nest - Cam 1

This live feed is owned and operated by Friends of Big Bear Valley, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Any public use of the live video, including screen captur...

www.youtube.com

 

[bovinebrain]

Pelicans are cool mothahuckas.

I’m not a big fan of pelicans to be perfectly honest witcha

 

[guest]

I’m not a big fan of pelicans to be perfectly honest witcha

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did Artie just call me a pelican, Robin?

 

[Joe_Cumia_Eats_HUMAN_SHIT]

Always like the cardinals very beautiful bird

 

[Stent]

Flightless birds are kinda the dumb faggots of the bird world. You had one job.

 

[RobertMewler]

Flightless birds are kinda the dumb faggots of the bird world. You had one job.

They're birds that swim underwater! Give 'em a break!

 

[Stent]

They're birds that swim underwater! Give 'em a break!

#ruizing

 

[guest]

What Jim was to opie and Anthony