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shameless selfbump

I guess you could just take them to your garden, if it contains a meadow, which is their chosen habitat. Having a lot of grasshoppers helps, they love devouring them.

I used to exterminate them with a gasburner because I dislike them.

take them at least 1km away and make sure the new meadow fits their needs. Anyway, if there's not an existing population at the new meadow as well, chances are low they will produce sacs as males are not yet ready.

I could probably take on a dolphin if the fight was in a parking lot.

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I'm pretty sure I could take down an eagle too as long as it was out of its element, he could get really high and descend with amazing speed upon me, he may aim to rip away my eyes first but with enough reflexes I could grab it and break it's wings. Once he can no longer fly he would be amine to quickly reduce him

>>2181907
Nigga, a wing flap from an eagle can knowk you down, some eagles have gripping strenght greater than a wolf's bite.

Holy fuck that sounds awesome, but also sad for the robin. We have a sharp-shinned hawk that visits our backyard, so far she's only gotten sparrows and finches but I've seen her go after the blue jays and I'm dreading the day I find a pile of blue and gray feathers. Still though I'd gladly let one go if a Peregrine falcon took it out in front of me.

>>2181648
It was sad and cool. I don't like robins myself, or even the giant flocks of sparrows at bird feeders since I recently moved to an idea that just doesn't have many different kinds of birds. I'm so used to seeing so many different kinds but it's 99% sparrows and starlings, with the occasional crow here. I'm in NH right now but I used to also see barn owls, great horned owls, turkey vultures, black vultures, ospreys(up close since they nested behind my house), golden eagles, bald eagles, coppers hawks and red tail hawks(they used to sit in the trees and watch our rabbits). Never saw a peregrine falcon and I heard an owl once in the 3 years ive lived here so this was pretty exciting.

And it was a literal explosion of feathers. As soon as the falcon hit it, the Robin just exploded. Didn't get pictures of the falcon but I did get pics of the ridiculous amount of feathers on my yard. I just can't find them. I don't get how it exploded like that.

A couple weeks ago at a park I was walking and something burst through the trees being chased by like five crows. I couldn't see what it was, but it was bigger than the crows from the blurred impression I got.

Yellow-spotted recluse

How dumb are you

>>2181476
On the slim chance you're being serious, it's a dragonfly. I hope you've at least heard of them.

Holy fuck they put the site back up!

Hell yeah man! It's been up for around a year.

Cool website thanks for the suggestion

Not been on /an/ for fucking ages, do people still reply to these shitty threads?

>>2180804
>.au

Do Australians really have so much contempt for other creatures that they'd go so far as to shitpost cats now?

>>2180793
It's dry food
/thread

Also:
>expecting us to be able to tell anything about a food without the ingredients
Lol

>>2180805
>self /thread
are you really new or just retarded?

>>2180793
Cons:
-contains grain
-dry food
-fish
-vegetables

It's neither a dove or pidgeon, im not sure exactly but it almost looks like a fledging finch to me. Being a fledging, this is perfectly normal for them. Their parents bring them food, and the fledgling will eventually learn to fly on it's own. Just make sure to keep and cats or dogs away from it and it should be fine.

>>2180612
Are you sure? I'm glad to hear that then, it's been so long since it fell down here, I can see it trying to fly but it fails. It keeps crying and crying but no bird came to it in the past 10 hours. I'm scared it might be not easy for the parents to see since it's pretty far down. Right now another bird came and rested right on top of it crying a bit, but then it just flew away, this keeps happening, maybe they can't find it.
Should I put it somewhere higher? It's even hiding behind some boxes right now since I went to get something outside and it got scared.

Alright I'm very sure that the bird that came right now had something in its beak, but then just flew away.
Do these kind of birds have trouble looking down or understanding where exactly a sound comes from?

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>>2180453

Poms are anything but short hair and quiet.

>>2180466
We saw a chihuahua-like dog, but it was smaller (half of a normal chihuahua).
What race is that?

>>2180453
Get a Boston, they are great family dogs.

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V maculifrons clypeus

these are from a grad school class I had to do it was retarded

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the hairy occipital carina of polistes annularis

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Polistes fuscatus lateral shot

if anyone wants more lemme know I don't like wasps that much but I had to do a lot with vespid wasps for this stupid class

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I've never owned a bun but I really want to someday, for now I just admire from afar

(´・ω・｀)

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balls with eyes

Always kinda wondered this myself. It seems really cruel to take away a bird's flight. It's like condemning someone to use a wheelchair for life when they don't need it. It's especially bad when you consider how intelligent birds are and how they can feel depression.

>>2179729
Some neighbours moved and they have 2 on a single cage, one is doing circles all day.

Can't you take them off for a while and let them fly? If you put food next to the cage wouldn't they come back to eat? Otherwise I would never own birds.

that's kinda gunna happen no matter what pet you have. to be able to keep a pet both yours and safe, you have to imprison them.

if you don't, they get loose, get hurt, don't come back, or something else bad happens to them.

you have to ask yourself: is their freedom worth less than their safety and your want to have them?

>>2179704
nice

did you take more pics?

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>>2179718

Only this one.

I tried taking a video of me feeding him but sadly my phone didnt start recording.

He was getting close enough that I probably could have fed him from my hand, but his beak looked fuckin sharp so I didn't want to risk losing something. I just tossed the shrimp down next to me and he would snatch them

where did you got the shrimp from

>>2178414

Brown recluse.

>>2178414
great pyrenees/collie mix?

>>2178414
That's a Schrodinger's Mutt.