post pictures of birds doing bird things

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HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pbCr577RI0

also fuck your cars we're walking here

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

>>2340884
Such a majestic creature

>>2340998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LIg8WSIBpo

>>2341007
what in the unholy fuck

>>2341038
Why doesn't he just let them have it?

>>2341050
They are made for tearing pieces off of a heavy dead animal corpse, if he just let the thing go they would drag it all over the place.

>>2341076
wtf
could it be that it is doing it just for fun?

>>2341107
It probably thinks its an egg and is trying to break it

>>2341127

Or a nut. Several bird species use some pretty clever ways to break open nuts. Like crows have been on camera dropping walnuts in to traffic on purpose so the nuts get run over. They then wait for a gap in the cars to swoop down and collect the goods.

>>2341127
>>2341131
that bird is living on a golf course, it knows it can't eat fucking golf balls.

>>2341127
ah yeah i realised it too after posting

>>2341076
Being a bird must be suffering. They're some of the most intelligent animals on Earth and understand some advanced concepts like tool making and fun, but lack the arms, hands, and fingers required to actually craft anything that can amuse them. So you get them trying poorly to bounce a ball but of course a bird can't dribble it, or like >>2340843 where they just want to slide but have to do it in the more basic and bare bones way.

>>2341491
I'd say being able to fly more than makes up for that.

>>2341711
But for a bird flying is just a normal every day boring thing to do, it's work. I bet they wish they could drive cars and play video games.

>>2341732
they're also not smart enough to know what they're missing not having hands.

>>2341642
bless that bird for offing some rodent pests

>>2341023
Turkeys=necromancers confirmed

>>2341131
Up in the Pacific Northwest I've seen crows dropping clams onto rocks just like seagulls do.

>>2341076
Anyone know what kind of bird this is?

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>>2342005
It's a red-legged seriema. They along with the black-legged make the last relatives to the ancient terrorbirds.

>>2341491
There's a video of a Crow using a jar lid to repeatedly sled down a roof out there somewhere.

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>>2342088
gotchu covered fampai

>>2341491
Aren't most birds pretty stupid?
I thought crows and the like were exceptions, not the norm.

>>2342187
There's a lot of variance depending on type of bird, but generally corvids, parrots, and vultures are considered to be above the rest.

>>2342187
1. psychometrics is still in its infancy even for man, much less for bird.

2. most studies on birds use brain to body size ratio or EQ, both are ineffective when comparing non-mammalian creatures.

3. most studies on corvid or psittiacine intelligence rely on observational experiments.

4. Most birds on earth are not accessible in a laboratory setting to researchers.

5. Problem solving abilities seems to be present across multiple bird lineages. Tool use in birds can be demonstrated in passerines, columbiformes, galliformes, psittacines, charadriiformes, accipitriformes, falconiformes, piciformes, and several dozen other families. This represents a broad range of polyphyletic clades in which problem solving ability has either been retained from a common ancestor or evolved independently. Many of these clades are understudied in the literature. Crows and magpies and parrots are sexy, woodpeckers and ducks are not. Confirmation bias also plays a role.

I don't trust anyone's assessment of their animal's intelligence. People are just not good judges of intelligence, not in their own species, and certainly not in other species. Many times the bird is smarter than they. Many times they're just regurgitating what the latest meta analysis told them. Remember that when you hear someone judging intelligence in an animal, it's invariably copypasted Google Scholar knowledge.

Unfortunately for those who do copypaste Google Scholar, knowledge does not work like this and science always marches on.

>>2342237
vultures?
I never heard of vulture smarts

>>2342260
please tell this to all the
>hurr reptiles are dum
people

>>2342518
shrikes are crazy

>>2342012
I wish terrorbirds still existed
mammal domination of the top of the food chain is pretty boring

>>2342518
>think the filename is a Fallout reference because I'm a biologylet
>look it up
>shrikes are actually called Lanius because their feeding habits are so fucked up that taxonomists decided to editorialize about it

>>2342260
This is why I take any guestimation of dinosaurian intelligence with a grain of salt.

>>2342543
I thought Fallout too. I think we all did.

>>2340884
FUCK these assholes. There's a pond right across the street from my apartment, and I have to listen to that honking whenever I go outside.

The ducks are my bros though.

>>2342543
>>2342598
Lanius is latin for butcher. It's pretty appropriate for a shrike, which prepares the animals it catches

>We shall see how brave you are when nailed to the walls of Hoover Dam, your body facing west so you may watch your world die.

>>2343067
is that a Chilean condor?

>>2343121
Yeah, although usually they just get called Andean Condors.

>>2342518
How the fuck did that happen? How do you impale a mouse at a branching point? There aren't even any thorns, are mice really that soft?

>>2342519
>I never heard of vulture smarts
I once watched vultures open a carton of a dozen eggs, eat them and stack the shells in the two spaces at the end.

>>2343139
It probably shredded beforehand

>>2343143
>stack the shells in the two spaces

Are vultures autistic?

>>2343139
>are mice that soft?
>>2343148
>probably shredded

Yep. Unlike hawks, which use their talons, shrikes kill things by ripping them apart with their beaks.

>>2343153
Absolutely.

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>>2343153

BIRDFAG HERE FOR IDs. No captives.

>>2340597
House Sparrow

>>2340632
Pale Chanting-Goshawk (top) and Eagle sp. (bottom). Maybe Bonneli's?

>>2340636
Kakapo <3

>>2340658
Wild Turkey

>>2340712
Green Parakeet

>>2340884
Avian Nigger

>>2341020
Iiwi

>>2341038
White-rumped Vulture

>>2341075
Bald Eagle, Northwestern Crow, Glaucous-winged Gulls, and a Herring Gull

>>2341076
Red-legged Seriema >>2342005

>>2341126
Black Vulture

>>2341296
Harpy Eagle

>>2341642
Great Blue Heron

>>2342179
Jackdaw being a badass

>>2342518
Northern (Great Grey) Shrike

>>2343067
Andean Condor being used by shitskins

>>2343238
Harpy Eagle again

>>2343312
see title

Later niggers

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Here's a plethora of bird reactions

>>2343884
If I had a potoo I would name it chip.
Potoo chip.

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>>2343439
Thanks bird person.

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>>2340597
>no Mourning Doves

>>2341141
A Bird can dream.

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anyone have the picture of the budgie and the t-rex with the "my ancestor" text?

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>>2343439
>avian nigger
Anyway, thanks lad.

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Now I'm good and mad.

There's some sort of tweety bird outside my window in some tree somewhere- singing.

What's he got to be so happy about? There's cats, hawk and children infesting this neighborhood everywhere.

Doesn't he know death looms around every corner? Doesn't he know the winter will return and deprive him of food for months? Doesn't he know the whole world is a terrible, awful place for everything, and the most miserable thing about it is the horrible people in it?

He's not getting my bread. I barely have groceries till payday. I got more peanut butter than jelly. I don't even have enough milk for all my cereal. Ants are in the kitchen and whole damn world is coming apart, blatant communists on tv and with nothing but the feathers on his head, this bird has the NERVE to sing just because the sun FINALLY came out.

YOU'RE NOT GETTING MY BREAD YOU JOLLY SONOFABITCH, YA HEAR?!? I WONT TOLERATE THIS CRUEL TAUNTING FOREVER!

>>2345165
he just wants to fuk
sing together beautiful bastards

>>2345165
>not being happy all the time

>>2341126
So cute

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>>2341126
>>2345589

Interesting. I've seen birds relish a practical bath, but didn't know their wiring actually could render idle 'play'. I have seen curiosity, social desire, even problem solving, but didn't know they could 'play'.

>>2345592
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dWw9GLcOeA

You need to watch crows more then.

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>>2344670
>tfw nobody will ever cuddle with you that way

>>2341107
dolphins almost have hands

>>2342543
>>2342598
I thought itw as something birb related because of Yugioh. Specifically all the Raid Raptor monsters are robobirbs called (something) Lanius

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>>2345612
DELETE THIS

BIRDFAG IS BACK. No captives.
>>2343439

>>2343823 horizontally
Secretarybird, Great Horned Owl, Osprey, Lammergier (Bearded Vulture), Andean Condor, Cooper's Hawk, Bald Eagle, Common Buzzard

>>2343884
Common Potoo

>>2344593
Turkey Vulture

>>2344638
Tawny Frogmouth

>>2344670
see title

>>2344767
Golden Pheasant

>>2345165
Eurasian Eagle-Owl

bye fags - sea later

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

>>2341296
BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRD

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>>2342536
No
>Goes outside to get mail from the box
>Make it to box sees tb
>don't make any sudden moves
>fucking sprints towards you because it knows it can kill you
>you panicked run to your car
>lock the door
>lmao.jpeg
>mother fucker shatters your window
>neck gets through the hole in the window begins wildly trying to murder you
>you don't have a phone, your keys nothing
>the bird leaves you step out of the car
>the mother fucker was hiding in front of the car
>you try to out run it but it has T H I C C powerful legs
>you manage to get back inside your house but no before it rips your pants off
>you just stare at choking on your terror stained pants
>what a majestic creature

Considering tb would concave your fucking face I'm glad they don't exist

>>2347989
Thanks for this.

>>2347989
I don't see why we'd have to worry about terrorbirds any more than other carnivores that live around us. I doubt they'd just be wandering around in cities and suburbs.

>>2347989
>T H I C C powerful legs

Can we get a pic of this?

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>>2348069
Varying levels of T H I C C

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>>2348057
I don't know where they would show up but I used to live in the more "rural" parts of NC there are developments and stuff like that but there were large sections of woodland areas on elf my neighbors was a crop farmer and the other had an equestrian farm to help give sense of how much space there was
TB would destroy there livelihoods though

>>2348129
Aren't Terror Birds native to South America, though? And even if they were in North America, it's not like your neighbours have to worry about bears, cougars, or wolves. No reason terror birds would be a problem either.

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>People post videos of their parakeet doing fun stuff
>All mine does is look at himself in the mirror and poop
>Doesn't use the house I got for him
>Doesn't use the bird bath I got for him
>Doesn't eat any of the treats I buy him
>Have had him for two years and he still hasn't gotten used to me or learned to say anything
Birds just hate me.

>>2341126
God he just looks like he's having a blast.

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>>2348339
>ywn have that much fun again

>>2348325
Maybe you're just boring to death. Maybe it's just counting the days until sweet release.

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>>2345612
>>2345639
>came back much later
>see this
>while listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

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>set a timelapse to minute intervals
>come back and get camera
>see this
kek

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This is the best bird I've had. He's an invasive flying rat.

Who has a bigger vocabulary than all my other birds combined. And he was the ugliest dying little shit when we first got him. I spent 6 months hand feeding this bastard to health. WORTH IT. Never released him obviously.

>>2349726
He's cute.

Not sure why people hate starlings other than they're told to by society. They're great looking birds.

>>2349739
They've become a favorite for me. I didn't know how smart and gorgeous they were. They aren't as bad as people say, even as far as their impact on the environment. They are definitely little shitheads though.

But we're just like them, and any other invasive species :P We just happen to be on top.

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Oriental magpie-robin with my ipotato camera

>>2341023
>>2341007

It's because turkeys follow the leader.
The lead turkey is circling the dead animal to make sure it's dead before feasting and not playing dead like a snake or a possum.
The rest of the turkeys are just following the leader.

>>2342518
Fuck I've had one of these shrines on my property before. It left half torn aoart mouse carcasses in my Hawthorne tree.

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>>2348325
The mirror could be a lot of the problem, since he's got another 'bird' to try and bond/socialize with
Not using a house seems pretty normal, my cockatiel has a spot in his cage he likes to sleep in but will at least play in and on his little house-tent thing
Your bird may prefer being misted or having water sprinkled on him for baths
If he's interested in you/what you do, then a good way to get them to try food is to either pretend to or actually eat a little bit yourself
Do you give him chances to come out of his cage? You don't have to explicitly pull him out, but just leaving the door open and letting him check things out on his own would be a good place to start. I also whistle to my bird all the time, and when he gets in a singing mood he goes to town. He also does contact calls when I leave line of sight, and I reply back so he knows where I am

Another thing that's been great, get some plastic safety chain from a hardware store, turn it into a necklace, and attach toys to it. Things like sisal twine, wooden/plastic beads from craft stores, baby toys, keys, etc are all great
My little guy is very attached to me, and if he didn't startle so easily he'd probably never be anywhere but on me. And if he'd stop trying to remove moles/acne/hair he'd get to hang out with me as long as he wanted, but that's a work in progress

>>2349828
This. Chickens would do the same when my mother made some nasty new dish and we threw it out. They would form a circle until the alpha rooster took the first bite

>>2350271
Your mother's cooking was so bad it was mistaken for roadkill?

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Help me /an/!
Is pic related true or totally bullshit?

>>2341107

It's the killing move of the species.

This, however, is a bird using tools for fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUBMSnHH7hc

Tho I think it's a jackdaw or hooded crow, not a regular old carrion or field crow.

Birds Are Not Important

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>>2350476
You take that back!

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>>2350476
>Some species of vultures in India were almost wiped out because of the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac, which was administered to livestock and is extremely toxic to vultures, who were eating the carcasses. At least 3 species are still close to extinction because of it.

>By the time it was discovered what was killing the birds, the population of white-rumped vultures (the most affected by diclofenac) had been reduced by over 99% in a period of less than ten years. This is a bird that in the 80s was so abundant it was considered a nuisance. Indian and Slender-billed Vulture populations were reduced by almost 97%.

>The sudden massive decline in vulture populations had a major impact on human health in that area, because uneaten dead animals not only contaminated water supplies, but caused a population boom in feral dogs, which then led to a rabies crisis.

>>2350623
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.

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Does the bird-dad feed the kids too?

>>2350737
I think so, but stuff like that can depend on the kind of bird it is.

>>2350743
Just regular domesticated canaries, on the pic.

>>2341076
It baffles me how birds understand physics. I've always felt like if their bodies were better equipped evolution would have brought them in our position of intelligence.

>>2349926
If you're still around, or anyone else, how are cockatiels as pets? I'd like to get one in the future

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>>2342536
>>2347989
>>2348057
>trying to get home from work
>travelling in a large groups of other humans for safety
>due to price wars between the taxi union and Uber it's gotten too expensive to take a cab home
>SUDDENLY
>huge shadow passes over us
>a young woman screams and points to the sky as several people scramble for a building to hide in
>one man barges through the front door of someone's house just to get indoors
>can hear shouting from inside but I'm already brandishing my bird repellent stick
>a gigantic Turkeyhawk Vulture Terrorbird swoops down and picks up the lady's baby, swallows it, and then flies away
>off in the distance I can hear a flock of Canadian-American MegaGeese emptying a gas station
>such is life in terrorbird country

>>2350737
Yes. The majority of birds get fed by both parents because the chicks grow so fast that it's super-hard for just one parent to feed them enough.

Species where just one parent raises the chick tend to have weird mating systems.

>>2350796
Wonderful, I wasn't too keen on getting a cockatiel at first but I'm glad I did

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>>2342536
If they existed around the time we are alive, they would either be turned into trained attack animals or dead meat.

Fuck birds, send them back to where they came from I hate them

BIRDFAG IS BACK FOR IDs. No captives.

>>2348325
House Sparrow

>>2348346
Barn Owl

>>2348517
Andean Condor (juvenile)

>>2349488
House Finches

>>2349522
Pine Siskin

>>2349618
California Scrub-Jay

>>2349726
European Starling

>>2349791
Nice shot man!

>>2349816
Egyptian Goose

>>2350496
Southern Boobok

>>2350621
Griffon or Ruppell's Vulture. I'm to lazy to find out which.

>>2350801
Sandhill Crane

>>2351231
Anna's Hummingbird

>>2351289
Carrion Crow

>>2352096
Shoebill

>>2352096
Every time I see a shoebill I think it looks animatronic.

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y-yeah s-sure birds doing bird things..

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>>2352799
just a throng of birds being birds

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>>2340597

>>2352986
fuck off christfag

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>>2344767
got you senpai

>>2353298
Hang yourself you fucking redditor.

>>2350407
don't knock it till you've tried it

>>2353298
>christ
Far worse than that. This guy is a new ager meme.

>>2353456
/r/christianity is calling though :^^^)

>>2340884
WIsh I could club these invasive faggots. Ruined the lake I like to hang out and chase off anyone who goes near it.

why are geese so terrible in particular?
surely there are other large birds that get aggressive with people

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvtgI9jUd3w

>>2353745
>Hey guys just out for my morning jog, mind if I tag along?

>>2349726
They're not invasive here so I just love starling. They look simple, but their songs are great.

>>2352843
Cardinal sided towhee

>>2352838
Northern roufus

>>2352973
Tufted titmouse

>>2352096
Jesus christ it's a fucking dinosaur

Yesterday i was watching my feeder and my cat was out laying on the back porch so the birdbros were being cautious. A pair of cardinals showed up and the male would fly over to the feeder, eat a bit, then would take a mouthful of seed over to the female sitting up on a branch and feed her. It looked like they were kissing. Cute af.

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Birds don't care about religion.

They are birds.

They do bird things.

>>2354596
>Imagine on judgment day, standing before God

>>>>/b/

>>2354651
It's mating season, anon.

You'll find all kinds of dude birds doing that to score bitches at this time of year.

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Guys. Birds.

Cmon.

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>>2354809
My bad, birds

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>>2354812
>Only bringing baby birds for ants

>>2354790
wow, I had a rhode island red hen just like that. We also had 3 roosters who would mate it over and over until its back was bald of feathers. There were like 10 other hens they just really loved that one

>>2354651
I saw that at the park yesterday with some house finches. Never saw it before. I thought maybe the female was an invalid but it flew away later. How fucking weird that you have to jam food down your mate's throat as part of the ritual.

>>2342518
>literally "nine-killer" in german

>>2354619
knowing human nature this is realistic

>>2353786
>humans evolve from monkeys
>monkeys still exist
>fedorafags btfo
>the Amazing Atheist on suicide watch

>>2348118
They look like dinosaurs.

>>2353697
>REEEEE!
t. r/atheism

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>>2354809

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how do you know when robins are being inquisitive or territorial? there's this one that will come right up to me (10cm away), and land on objects around me and just stare at me for a bit. sometimes he'll bomb right above/near me but it seems like he's diving for worms instead of attacking me

>>2356120
Robins show very evident threat displays when defending their territory i.e. a lifted tail and exposed breast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF8xIYyBICs
Chances are he's mostly interested by the worms you dig up while gardening

>>2356120
What kind of a weird robin is that?

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>>2356171
European robin, a.k.a. best robin

>>2356173
Our robins could kick your robin's ass

>>2356292
You're both ignoring the obvious question.

[spoiler]What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen robin?[/spoiler]

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>>2356423
Oh you guys don't do those here.

Okay then.

>>2342260
>woodpeckers are not sexy
You take that back.

>>2342536
Ain't no fucking mammal domination in the air.

>>2345612
My cat does that with me.

>>2353716
T-rex alpha genes, boi.

>>2356426
/an/ is very serious and birds are important, anon.

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Hey guys, can you tell me if this amount of tail bobbing is normal for budgie? I'm pretty worried that he got one of those respiratory infections.

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>Parent owns store in a strip mall, has bird problem in roof
>Probably getting in through the hole in the wall the landlord never fixed
>Last year there were a few birds up in the roof, landlord dealt with it by killing all of them with a broom
>Store staff don't want that to happen again, so they're trying to ignore the problem
>Did some research and have formulated a plan to deal with them

Plan is:
>Climb into roof (Very roomy, about 7' of vertical space in the center)
>Look around and get a better look at some of the nests/chicks, have some goggles and a dust mask as well
>Probably take pictures and post here to try and get help identifying species/age
>Use that to determine when they're going to fledge
>When that time comes either chase all of them out and/or catch them with nets
>Fix any and all access holes with chickenwire/expanding foam
>Throw out the nests and leave some mothballs around for good measure
Any thoughts or suggestions? Also apparently yesterday 2 baby birds fell out of the eaves on the front of the building and died, but they were small, 'naked', and the worker that dealt with them didn't take pictures.
I do like birds and wouldn't be against taking care of stragglers, but judging from how noisy it got when I smacked a piece of metal with a hammer, I'm going to guess there's easily a dozen chicks up there. I neither want to take care of 12+ baby birds nor massacre 12+ baby birds

>>2356879
You could massacre half and look after half. Everybody wins.

>>2356841
He does looked stressed.
Other than that, I don't know

>>2356964
He's breathing a lot faster than usual and for some reason he began to lay down with his whole body when he goes to sleep.

I took him to the vet, but she said that she doesn't treat birds very often, especially this small, so she couldn't help me.

>>2356989
Vet sounds incompetent. Find a better one.

Bet she still charged you $80.

>>2357019
She didn't charge me anything. She said that he's too small so she can't check his temperature or breathing. She advised me to call the zoo's bird department and maybe look for help there since there aren't many vets that treat birds here.
The only problem is that the zoo is so far away and there's no way I can bring him there even if they could help me. I also only have 110 euros left in my account and I don't know if that's enough for his treatment.

Fuck, I hope he gets better although I don't have much hope. He's still eating, drinking and everything but his breathing is not getting better. I really don't want to lose him...

>>2357052
Hate to even recommend this but maybe you could ask on some local bird forums if anyone would like to have him. Maybe they could afford to get him some treatment. It would be hard to do, but it's better than letting him die.

That is if there's anything wrong at all, which from the sound of it is still uncertain. I wouldn't want you to give away your bird for no reason if it turns out he's really fine.

>>2357067
Thanks for the offer, but there aren't a lot of active lithuanian parrot forums and I don't think that many people would take a sick bird.

I'm still trying to find a way to help him though. I was thinking of calling that zoo and maybe take a taxi to get there, but I'm not sure if I have enough money for that.

I'm afraid that while I sit here doing shit, he's getting worse. And I would still need to wait at least until Tuesday if I want to bring him to the vet because of fucking Easter.

If only I wasn't such a failure and passed my driving test, I could take him to the vet myself and he'd probably be fine by now.

>>2356173
>European Robin
>foreigner intolerance
toppest of keks, mate.

>>2352905

gulls are a bit like cats with wings, in that they're FLYING CUNTS

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>>2356879
Ok, got a few pictures, couldn't get much better ones without disassembling the nest since they were hiding out in the insulation
Anyone able to identify what kind of birds they are/approximate age?
I'm guessing a robin of some sort, and maybe about halfway between birth and fledging?

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>>2357183
Different view to work with, I don't think there's quite as many birds as I expected, but they're not the little sparrows I was expecting. When taking pictures of these 2 they were dead silent and I could hear at least 2 more babies chirping from other parts of the nest

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>>2357183
>>2357187
Oh yeah, forgot to mention I'm in Louisiana, USA
Bonus picture of a feather that made it down with me, dunno how useful it'd be

BIRDFAG IS BACK FOR MORE IDs, NIGGERS!. No inmates. >>2352312

>>2352799
>>2352801
>>2352836
European Starling

>>2352837
Blue Jay

>>2352838
Northern Cardinal

>>2352843
Eastern Towhee

>>2352905
Ring-billed Gull

>>2353690
House Sparrow (bird nigger)

>>2353693
Yellowhammer

>>2353694
Adelie Penguin

>>2353695
Shoebill & Fulvous Whistling-Duck

>>2353696
Anhinga

>>2353699
Calliope Hummingbird

>>2353704
Southern Cassowary

>>2353706
Northern Giant-Petrel, Cape Petrel, & Royal Albatross

>>2353710
Cape Petrel & Wandering Albatross

>>2353719
Eastern Whip-poor-will

>>2353745
Ostrich

>>2354447
fuck off you autistic fag

>>2354812
Loggerhead Shrike

>>2354819
Griffon Vulture (Eurasian Griffon)

>>2356120
>>2356426
European Robin

>>2356879
Thick-billed Raven

>>2357435
>>2352312
Thank you for providing answers to questions nobody asked.

>>2357435
Thank you based birdfag.

>>2357483
Fuck off filthy sandnigger

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BIRDFAG please help!

What swallow is this?

I want to believe it is a Northern Rough-winged, but how can I be sure it is not some larval form of another swallow (tree, violet-green, or other)?

>>2343067
That is a big god damn bird

>>2358396
It's a right right left right down.

>>2342600
Seconded. It used to be nice to see the occasional flock fly over my neighborhood, back when I didn't have nests near me. Now I can't stand them. At my new place there are nesting areas in two separate places over the hill. I hear these bastards nonstop. If one group isn't noisy, the other is. What's with geese, anyway? Ever notice, no matter what they're doing, they have to honk continuously during it?

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>>2340597
WTF is this thing? It looks like a Fucking furry dinosaur

>>2358396
It's a Northern Rough-winged Swallow. The other two you mentioned are green and fancy looking, with sharp chirpy calls. Rough-wings are the color of dirt and make farting noises.

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>>2352843
Drink your tea! I moved out of the FL countryside and into the city recently so I don't get to hear this anymore...

>>2340597
Anyways here is a pic of a mockingbird out for a jog.

>>2358397
For you.

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>>2358423
brahma rooster

Don't birds only grow new feathers once a year? It's amazing to me they can make them last that long without them all getting damaged, torn out, etc.

>>2359390
They normally molt feathers like once a year, but if a feather is lost they'll immediately start growing a new one to replace it

>>2358396
Northern Rough-winged Swallow. Nice shots!

>>2359385
Curvaceous thicc daddy birb

More IDs.

>>2357463
>>2357466
American Kestrel

>>2358228
American/Carrion Crow (Location?)

>>2358396
Northern Rough-winged Swallow

>>2358611
Chalk-browed Mockingbird, a South American species

>>2359444
this webm enrages me because of the stupid bitch turning the cam away and it cutting off

WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?

>>2359444
Are birds the only animal other than man that has learned how to effectively use bait?

There is that one webm of the killer whale laying some food down and grabbing a bird so I guess them and dolphins, though in the wild I'm not sure they could use those skills really.

>>2341076
>>2342005
PTPTPTP MEEP MEEP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1LV6Fsd2HM

>>2353745
Holy shit I take back >>2359554 this is the real MEEP MEEP.

>>2350801
It saw the mongoose and though he was repin' another gang

>>2342536
Humans always find a way to fuck up other species, terrorbirds would be no different desu. I wonder if terrorbirds tasted good

>>2342519
They dont want you to know

>>2352103
Then why you got into a bird thread

>>2359385
Gorgeous creature

>>2351231
Nuthin personnel, kid

>>2359481
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Porp5v5lLKk

>>2361786
He's pretty smart. He also catches fish a lot faster than people do with a pole.

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What kind of bird is this?

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>>2362094
Squirrel Cuckoo minus the cuckoo

>>2363391
I used to go to parks and get really bored because all I cared about was mammals and aside from a squirrel or stray cat there were none. Then I learned about birds and it's like holy shit these things are fucking everywhere. Now sometimes I see up to 30 species per visit. It's amazing since before I had no idea they even existed.

>>2363391
>implying I don't wake up every morning to mourning doves

>>2356879
THICK!

>>2344670
Always nice to hear them when I wake up. They're good birds.

>>2359481
There's anglerfish, not sure how well they "understand" though

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These birds discovered the concept of waifuism and have started their own religion.

>>2364346
I don't think it counts when the bait is built into your head.

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>>2340597

>>2365821
Kung Fu Panda 2?

>>2360825
Cape Starling

>>2363358
Double-crested Cormorant

>>2365821
Magellanic Penguins

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Sleep tight, birdy

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>>2367144

>>2352312
the autism doesnt get by you, eh?

>>2367407
Apparently you don't understand the concept of birdwatching. The ID process is the hardest part, and birdfag has correctly identified every bird ITT, as well as others. It's a skill not many people can do and a contribution to the thread.
What have you done other than criticize like a faggot?

>>2367412
Beginner birdwatcher here, can confirm, the thrill and challenge for me is IDing them. I can only do a small handful (relatively speaking) of local ones here, but there are people who have like counts in the thousands from all over the world who can instantly ID some random bird. It's really impressive.

>>2367407
Being knowledgeable about something doesn't mean you're autistic.

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>>2365722

>>2367412
>>2367578
Thanks. I enjoy IDing birds for fun, especially in cases where it helps out others. It reduces spam on Ebird and RBAs and increases the quality of birding in general. When people are asking for IDs I normally go into field marks as well to help them improve their ID skills. I'm planning to get a degree in Ornithology once I finish wildlife biology and other general shit.

>>2367653
>tfw too late to get an ornithology degree

I should've done it 15 years ago but I didn't get into birds until last year. Oh well, at least I can still enjoy them. Saw two Nashville Warblers and a Warbling Vireo tonight. Pretty cool.

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>>2366795

I admire your devotion. Seeing expertise evolve from passion isn't a common thing, but valuable.

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>>2365722

>>2358423
aside from simply being big chickens, Brahmas have feathery legs that give the illusion that they're people dressed in chicken outfits.

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>>2368057
this is huggin, one of odin's feathered friends. He's my personal attack bird when kittay is bad.

>>2368054
Now he's going to die of a broken heart :'(

>>2356879
That bird looks jewish

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Birds are always enjoyable to me. I was into bird photography for a bit, I should get back into it.

It's funny to see smaller birds hop around.

>>2362109
Hey, Birdfag, check this out
>>2368542

>>2368535
Holy shit they even got little yarmulkes

>>2353704
Gotcher terror bird right here

>>2358400
You mean it's trying to do the Konami code?

>tfw I have to wake up at 4:30 AM on Monday to go look at birds

I should get at least two new sandpipers out of it, I hope.

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>>2341491
they have the talons and beak. they're fine

>>2369256

If you get up that early, feel groggy and weary from the effort, and for a second doubt the merit of your venture, remember this:

You got to wake up that day and see a sand piper, and I did not.

And if you see none, you got the hope of pursuit. I wont have that either.

That should give you a sense of gratitude for an enviable experience.

Be blessed.

>>2353704
cassowary is cassovery cassoscary

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found this cute bird yesterday

>>2369331
>Next time the kitten decided it wanted nuggets for lunch

>>2341075

american_foreign_policy.webm

>>2369327
it is a bat xD

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>>2341075

I couldn't help but hear this song while watching that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gqiyqu1GVE

>>2369331
Cat is literally pussyfooting around so bird is like out of the way bitch I'll show you how it's done. Fucking savage.

>>2369453
Bats only come out at night. Anon's pic was clearly taken during the day so it's a bird.

>>2369331
Hey that is the extended version.

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One of my cockatiels has this habit of repeatedly shaking his head. Like a small shake, he looks like one of those emo kids constantly trying to flick their dumb hair out of their eyes. My other one doesn't do it so I assume it's not a species-wide thing. Is this something I should bring up with the vet? Or is he just a weirdo bothered by the existence of his own crest moving around up there?

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Silly birb

>>2369379
With that blur this looks like one of those
>Top 10 Anime Battles
pics

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>>2341642
blimey that's a fucking fast bird

>>2359481

In short : yes, there's a shit pile of animals that use some form of baiting behavior in the wild. National Geographic has a nifty crib sheet to give you an idea of how wide spread and diverse tool use is in animals other than man.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/animal-tools/

>>2369863
>Wasps use the limbs of another insect as pounding tools.

savage af

>>2353405
WE WUZ DINOSAURS

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>>2366795
How did you become so knowledgeable?
I'm still trying to learn the birds in the states. I haven't found a good source for knowledge on birds in other countries.

Semi-related, anyone know how to take photos of nocturnal birds? There are tons of Poorwhills around me, but my camera can't pick them up at night.

>>2369939
>poorwill photos
Either use a night-vision or low-light lens (the better way) or bring a spotlight (the much more intrusive way).

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>>2369950
Thanks, low-light lens will have to be the way then.

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river gull

bask in its glory

>>2369288
Thank you anon, I will seek out a sandpiper in your honor. I will do my best to report back with good results.

>>2342237
Because they are criminally underrated and everyone dislikes them for not good reason, no one really learns about them.

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I found this egg, probably fell from the nest. Anyone know what species it is?
Location, central balkan

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>>2357183
>>2357187
Update: Birds left the nest and before anymore eggs were laid I went in and sealed up the hole and chunked the nest
Took 2 contractor garbage bags to get it all out of there, and I found 2 types of eggs
Pic related is the bigger of the 2, along with a feather, not a whole lot but I'm guessing the nestlings I saw were from them
However I found a shitload of smaller, white, almost round eggs throughout the nest. All of them looked like they had hatched and whatnot, but they were much smaller than these
Updating purely out of curiosity of what might have been up there

>>2370430
House sparrow?

>>2370430
>>2370459
I asked around, it could be common blackbird

when birds are in pairs flying very closely, and one is doing wild evasive maneuvers and the other is staying pinned to it
are they mating or fighting?

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Back for more IDs

>>2367165
Java Sparrow

>>2367669
Greater Prairie-Chicken
Thanks!

>>2368562
Fuck these things

>>2369327
Little Brown Bat, assuming this is NA

>>2369379
Southern Cassowary. Dinosaur w/ feathers

>>2369523
Great Tit

>>2369665
Great Blue Heron, assuming this is NA. Saw one eat a giant bullfrog yesterday

>>2369939
There are a lot of good bird books out there. The one by Sibley is pretty good. As for birds in other countries, I suggest eBird, the largest birding site. It's awesome. I love to study and ID foreign birds.

>>2369939
Using cameras at night is a bitch. Buy a large handheld spotlight and use it to light up birds. Here's a good example https://flic.kr/p/dpLJhP

>>2370107
Herring Gull

>>2370467
this

Pic related is a Blue Jewel-Babbler (from PNG).