post pictures of birds doing bird things

File: canada-goose-by-pete-arnold.jpg (126KB, 992x770px) Image search: [Google]

126KB, 992x770px

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

>>2659
Such a majestic creature

>>2661
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LIg8WSIBpo

>>2662
what in the unholy fuck

>>2665
Why doesn't he just let them have it?

>>2666
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.

>>2669
wtf
could it be that it is doing it just for fun?

>>2670
It probably thinks its an egg and is trying to break it

>>2672

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.

>>2672
>>2673
that bird is living on a golf course, it knows it can't eat fucking golf balls.

>>2672
ah yeah i realised it too after posting

>>2669
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 >>2658 where they just want to slide but have to do it in the more basic and bare bones way.

>>2677
I'd say being able to fly more than makes up for that.

>>2679
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.

>>2680
they're also not smart enough to know what they're missing not having hands.

>>2678
bless that bird for offing some rodent pests

>>2664
Turkeys=necromancers confirmed

>>2673
Up in the Pacific Northwest I've seen crows dropping clams onto rocks just like seagulls do.

>>2669
Anyone know what kind of bird this is?

File: DSC_0298[1].jpg (238KB, 1600x1515px) Image search: [Google]

238KB, 1600x1515px

>>2685
It's a red-legged seriema. They along with the black-legged make the last relatives to the ancient terrorbirds.

>>2677
There's a video of a Crow using a jar lid to repeatedly sled down a roof out there somewhere.

File: 1478830280823.gif (2MB, 250x189px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 250x189px

>>2687
gotchu covered fampai

>>2677
Aren't most birds pretty stupid?
I thought crows and the like were exceptions, not the norm.

>>2689
There's a lot of variance depending on type of bird, but generally corvids, parrots, and vultures are considered to be above the rest.

>>2689
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.

>>2690
vultures?
I never heard of vulture smarts

>>2691
please tell this to all the
>hurr reptiles are dum
people

>>2692
shrikes are crazy

>>2686
I wish terrorbirds still existed
mammal domination of the top of the food chain is pretty boring

>>2692
>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

>>2691
This is why I take any guestimation of dinosaurian intelligence with a grain of salt.

>>2697
I thought Fallout too. I think we all did.

>>2659
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.

>>2697
>>2699
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.

>>2703
is that a Chilean condor?

>>2704
Yeah, although usually they just get called Andean Condors.

>>2692
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?

>>2693
>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.

>>2706
It probably shredded beforehand

>>2707
>stack the shells in the two spaces

Are vultures autistic?

>>2706
>are mice that soft?
>>2708
>probably shredded

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

>>2709
Absolutely.

File: Training a Rüppell’s Griffon Vulture.png (148KB, 591x602px) Image search: [Google]

148KB, 591x602px

>>2709

BIRDFAG HERE FOR IDs. No captives.

>>2651
House Sparrow

>>2654
Pale Chanting-Goshawk (top) and Eagle sp. (bottom). Maybe Bonneli's?

>>2655
Kakapo <3

>>2656
Wild Turkey

>>2657
Green Parakeet

>>2659
Avian Nigger

>>2663
Iiwi

>>2665
White-rumped Vulture

>>2668
Bald Eagle, Northwestern Crow, Glaucous-winged Gulls, and a Herring Gull

>>2669
Red-legged Seriema >>2685

>>2671
Black Vulture

>>2676
Harpy Eagle

>>2678
Great Blue Heron

>>2688
Jackdaw being a badass

>>2692
Northern (Great Grey) Shrike

>>2703
Andean Condor being used by shitskins

>>2711
Harpy Eagle again

>>2713
see title

Later niggers

File: whatthefuck.png (2MB, 895x1481px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 895x1481px

Here's a plethora of bird reactions

>>2716
If I had a potoo I would name it chip.
Potoo chip.

File: Bird+person+_065ea9635cade667eeb996e154832b0b.jpg (68KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

68KB, 1280x720px

>>2714
Thanks bird person.

File: Mourning doves.jpg (103KB, 700x560px) Image search: [Google]

103KB, 700x560px

>>2651
>no Mourning Doves

>>2674
A Bird can dream.

File: 1479439267928.jpg (136KB, 600x337px) Image search: [Google]

136KB, 600x337px

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

File: 1320808715592.jpg (11KB, 299x259px) Image search: [Google]

11KB, 299x259px

>>2714
>avian nigger
Anyway, thanks lad.

File: owl-wet-_1465025i.jpg (137KB, 564x620px) Image search: [Google]

137KB, 564x620px

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!

>>2725
he just wants to fuk
sing together beautiful bastards

>>2725
>not being happy all the time

>>2671
So cute

File: 1417320062948.gif (2MB, 250x250px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 250x250px

>>2671
>>2728

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'.

>>2729
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dWw9GLcOeA

You need to watch crows more then.

File: 1450035110142.jpg (50KB, 508x472px) Image search: [Google]

50KB, 508x472px

>>2721
>tfw nobody will ever cuddle with you that way

>>2670
dolphins almost have hands

>>2697
>>2699
I thought itw as something birb related because of Yugioh. Specifically all the Raid Raptor monsters are robobirbs called (something) Lanius

File: 1490562209048.jpg (21KB, 351x351px) Image search: [Google]

21KB, 351x351px

>>2731
DELETE THIS

BIRDFAG IS BACK. No captives.
>>2714

>>2715 horizontally
Secretarybird, Great Horned Owl, Osprey, Lammergier (Bearded Vulture), Andean Condor, Cooper's Hawk, Bald Eagle, Common Buzzard

>>2716
Common Potoo

>>2718
Turkey Vulture

>>2719
Tawny Frogmouth

>>2721
see title

>>2723
Golden Pheasant

>>2725
Eurasian Eagle-Owl

bye fags - sea later

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

This is a cute thread

post cute birbs

File: 1488541487922.webm (2MB, 422x608px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 422x608px

turkeys doing everyday turkey things

>>2652
What parrot is this?

File: IMG_20160823_190836.jpg (1MB, 1944x1944px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1944x1944px

This is lucyfer, bane of all things nice...And cords

>>2668
I imagined this species of freedom bird as an elite creature from any game, easily identified as a rare elite with it's walking sound being heavier than the creatures around it.

>>19032
They casting necromancy upon that corpse

>>2680
>But for a bird flying is just a normal every day boring thing to do, it's work
You've never seen them play with air currents?

>>2654
>falcon kick!

>>20288
they don't "play" with air currents. they use them because it saves energy

File: japanese bird installing gentoo.jpg (152KB, 800x600px) Image search: [Google]

152KB, 800x600px

>>2651
Typical japanese bird doing typical japanese bird things.

File: SAVAGE BIRDO.jpg (176KB, 990x643px) Image search: [Google]

176KB, 990x643px

RESPECT THE BIRDO

File: Venom emerging from a tennisball.jpg (44KB, 448x345px) Image search: [Google]

44KB, 448x345px

>>21756
Wait they meat that isn't bugs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qS77R0Y1K8

>>19618

caique