Thread 4928828

Post birds, appreciate birds

>>4928828 (OP)
Anyone have that pic with a confused looking falcon with a "え?" next to it?
Here, have a sanderling pic from my last visit to the beach.

My new local friend
Yes I feed him, no I won't stop

>>4928853
A barrel roll?

>>4929453
He laughs at you behind your back, you know.

>>4930268
Grazie

>>4928828 (OP)
Dog gang here. Birds are inferior.

>>4929453
That's a fine feathered friend you have.

>>4932039
I see your Eastern Bluebird and raise you a Mountain Bluebird.

>>4931973
console warrior faggot detected

>>4932353
hide those posts don't engage

>>4931973
That dog only fetched the shot bird. A noble task to prevent wastage and provide a meal for their family.

A cat kills with unrelenting joy and commits the act of murder with little to no thought. More often than not the cat will kill simply because it enjoys killing. Animals cannot commit acts of evil, but the sheer joy a cat experiences while killing endangered song birds come suspiciously close.

>>4932355
Cats are not special in that regard. Every predator delights in killing, a single loose dog can destroy an entire flock of sheep for fun. A fox in a henhouse will kill and maim every single hen so will a weasel. Crows and magpies also destroy whole nests of songbirds but they are universaly loved for some reason.

>>4932364
A cat is special in only one regard. How remarkably unspecial it truly is.

>>4932367
They are remarkable in making great pets.

If you want a truly evil incarnate, it has to be the crow that carves out the eyes of ewes as they lay giving birth.

>>4932382
I would say that they are more like living furniture and occasionally a bed warmer.

The crows are eating the lambs. Cats have made hundreds if not thousands of species of birds and reptiles go extinct merely for the thrill of the hunt.

>>4932399
less than 70 total species can be (partialy) blamed on cats

>>4932411
4 billion birds and 22 billion mammals annually in the US.

They're basically the nazis of the animal kingdom.

>>4932415
Some of those estimates exceed actual bird populations. Enviromentalists love to exaggerate.

>>4932417
I forgot to say up to, but I could believe it. I think it was 1.2 billion to 4 billion for birds.

>>4932418
desu I can believe it too there being 80 million cats
there are just too many damn cats, a single outdoor cat only kills something like 10-20 birds a year
not realy super bloodthirsty predator numbers

>>4932423
30 birds and 250 mammals. Close to one kill per day. They would kill so much more if only they could.

>>4932424
>1 tiny animal per day
kek
meanwhile actual bloodthirsty predators:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TMkZzzPZBU

>>4932434
Cats are inferior to just about every living animal and yet they cause so much pain and destruction.

>>4932436
Cats don’t. Cats are not conscious actors. They are dumber than bricks. Only a low IQ ape would blame a dog for killing some dumb chickens, after all. I would never harm a dog over chickens. I am a human who knows better. Chickens are fucking free. Dogs have emotional value. I don’t care what animals do to each other, i care about what HUMANS do to prevent it or not and whether or not they repay me.

The culpable parties are
>people who do not spay and neuter cats
>people who argue that not letting cats out is abusive or inviting a rat plague or other dumb shit
>people who casually let cats out to avoid taking care of them properly
All of these people owe the owners of wildlife (states) significant compensation.

>>4932436
>hysteria
they are just a dumb small predator
blame humans for letting them out

dogs turn small animals and fledgelings into chew toys with just as much delight, except people keep them contained better, so they only kill the birds in their own yards

>>4932436
>CATS ARE SO LE EVIL
>no they're not other animals do that
>LOL CATS ARE SO INFERIOR
repeat ad nauseam, do you get tired of being so retarded? why not just admit you hate cats because you're a mentally ill pajeet instead of giving it a pseudo-rational whiny pretense
>>4932440
oh boy it's the deboonker schizo
fighting the good fight against the aryan cat gods while gritting your teeth to larp as a sane person without a deep seated vendetta against an animal?

all of you are niggers and your barneyfag-tier obsession with cats has derailed this entire board, much like the you say cats should the mentally ill should be fed to large birds and the humans responsible (the immense faggots pretending to be our mod team) beaten for not dealing with you lesser beings. It's all so tiresome

>>4932588
It’s a catfag false flagging

>>4929453
I love birds so much man I'm very thankful to have lots of beautiful birds here in Australia. One of the things I actually like about it here.

>>4932650
More of my shots

What are some of your happiness birds? Birds that always puts a smile on your face when you see them.

>>4934579
For me, it's the Eurasian Bullfinch. Love seeing these lil round guys.

>>4934720
forgot pic

Question. When it's cold, about freezing point, birds shit ALL over the fucking place. I can't walk anywhere before stepping in some loogy. Why is this? It's mostly corvidae in a city.

>>4932355
No one asked, anti cat schizo

>>4935104
>seethes at week old post
lol 4chan equivalent of beta males who speak their minds hours later in an empty room

Why is he so fat

I nursed a bird back to life once.

>4935117
Yeah it's mad alright

another potato quality contribution

>>4928828 (OP)
pukeko

Crow, or Raven? Crow?

everyone look at my birb climbing a rope

https://files.catbox.moe/jzl2qc.mov

i will never understand how pigeon "people" exist. dozens of native birds in every locale, and some jamokes pick pigeons.

>>4940795
the noble rockdove is the horse and shepherd dog and barnyard cat of the bort world

loyal and loving and friendly to humans, they live in our cities, because we domesticated them. they hang out with us, are cute, and fat, and kind of stupid.

they were the first telephones dingus.

is it possible that there's so many birds left undiscovered or at least unnamed? I lived in a tropical country and I've seen birds that I can't find anywhere in books and in internet.

pic related. I've seen this one several times before and I can't identify it. it's tail is almost 4 times longer than its body.

>>4934579
Bearded reedling

>>4928828 (OP)
Goddamn I love birds

killed my budgie of 10 years the other day because im a fuck up.

>>4943818
now you can kill yourself

>>4943818
retard, budgies are ridiculously easy to take care of

>>4943820
yeah probably

>>4944075
it was the pellet transition over the course of 6 weeks. i saw her eating the pellets. idk anymore.

>>4944183
It's probably unrelated to the diet, the budgie was old, could have been any number of organ failure.

Sorry for your loss.

>>4944197
thanks, she was my oldest friend.

>>4934579
nuthatches are the cutest and I love seeing them hanging and running upside down. One gutsy nuthatch likes to come close to me and yap at me when I refill the feeders.

saw a white throated dipper today

>>4928828 (OP)
Theres a Peregrin that hangs around my neighborhood, everyone calls him Sarge.

>>4940270
Croven, or Ravow?

>>4948616
Merlin was telling me it was a Raven, but I'm not sure.

>>4948653
>don't go to the bird bath tomorrow

>>4928828 (OP)
Is this really a turkey vulture?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Uv_0kB6Co

peent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GsqeWeArJI

ofc the day I hear an owl is also the day I'm very busy and was on the way home.. didn't have camera or even binos with me so whatever

>>4940795
due to where i work i see pigeons every day and closely, they are always just chill if you are too close to their eggs they give you a cute grunt. found a baby a few months ago who had fallen out of a nest about 30ft into a stairwell his leg was busted and he was stuck so i picked him up and took him on my rounds with me he just sat there quietly and ate a few seeds from my hand. took him home the local bird woman wasnt taking anymore birds so he stayed with me till his leg was better. now he just hangs out with me all day, goes for a fly comes back sleeps on my shoulder hes really great.

Snowy owl swooped by me while I was shovelling at night, I think it thought my fur hood was it's next meal. Sorry owl bro.

Just saw this roadrunner this morning

>>4932335
I had those bluebirds all over where I grew up, they were really nice to listen to and watch. A lot of times blue jays would just seemingly get jealous of them having a nice time and start trying to chase them off to different trees

>two threads
Birdchads rule this board.

First RWBB of the season today

>>4939802
>>4939799
I will find you some day

Heard a woodcock this morning

Not the peent sound but the song they do for mating it's like wheetleweeweewee

I saw a flock of Canada geese my the brook behind my condo and was surprised to see a domestic goose among them. Have any of you ever seen that before cuz I haven't.
Here it is, it was wandering away from the rest of the geese

>>4960740
I don't get geese because I live in upland habitat away from water but there is some swampy wetlands behind my house and once, just once ever, some Canada geese wandered out of it.

>>4931973
>Ok, bitch.

I put up some bird houses yesterday

2 for chickadees/wrens (1" hole)

2 for bluebirds (1.5" hole)

I'm gonna be a bird dad

Look at my stupid fat fucking bird bitches. They shit all over the patio but they give me eggs in return so I love them very much.

Don't mind me, just posting some retarded shit I found on the r/chickens subreddit.

>fluorescent proteins
Yes. The $500 at minimum chemicals that are used for biological science research. I'm sure the average person can afford such things.

sad!

hi I saw albatross

Pardon my shite phone camera.
Didnt expect to see the only non nocturnal owl in my backyard

>>4964625
*in my country

Primary colors on birds look so pretty

Little dummy flew into a window in my garage twice. It flew away after a few minutes.

I learned today that the great spotted cuckoo doesn't kill the crow chicks and actualy increase their survival chance.

>>4965514
looks like a treecreeper

>>4929453
that's a bit kooky!

>>4947126
Looks like Alaska

>>4965520
How?

Carolina Wren is singing

cherry cherry cherry cherry CHURRY

>>4966221
https://www.aaas.org/news/science-parasitic-cuckoos-provide-nest-protection-crow-hosts

allegedly the foul shitting defense can ward off predators from the nest but I also found studies that do not confirm the theory

They are so goofy.

feet

https://youtu.be/JL7leG0liAo?t=213

>>4928853
i love these lil niggas so much

I saw a turkey today.

BAVI

>>4967252
very nice, did it make turkey sounds?

>>4928863
Just b urself

>>4966301
Cute!
Apparently siblicide is extremely rare in falcon nests.

>>4968551
It did not.

>>4965890
It's a Carolina wren

are there like autistic birds that dont leave the nest ever? like the bird equivalent of a 30 year old NEET in his mother's basement

Cool thing bird fans probably don't know about and would find neat

>>4969441
Pet birds sometimes wont come out of their cage if they are depressed or sometimes just because they would rather be comfy but id imagine the need for food would prevent this in the wild.

There was a crow going "caw caw" very close to my window and I noticed after each "caw caw" he would make a much quieter sound to like a cluck-growl. I think he wanted to get peanuts from the blue jay feeder and was trying to figure out a way in. They usually drop some that the crows will pick up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7RDwsNrsNc
Why are osprey such pushovers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55xG-CFN-TY&t=169s

I found this in the woods today, does it belong to a crow or a raven? I see and hear both birds at this forest.

>>4928871
Round bird

>>4928853
Am I the only one who thinks hummingbirds are terrifying? They hover and flap like little helicopters that can't decide where they want to hover, they look psychotically angry, ready to pierce any would-be attacker with that giant stinger

Lots of little dinosaurs today

What kind of bird would have wings like this? It's a manticore model but I'm using the scorpion tail and lion for other things and I'd like to find some use for the wings. It will take a while to make the rest from scratch so I don't want to get halfway through and realize the wings make no sense for that bird and it's stumped me for months now

>>4972071
eagles

>>4972071
Pee cock

>>4970831
they flit around me like gigantic sharp flies. good thing they are too quick for my reflexive swats.

>>4972071
seconding, these are eagle wings

Are there any types of seed that chickadees like but house sparrows don't?
A chickadee pair is making a nest in a dead tree's hole and a sparrow has found the same hole. I think they might just be doomed.

>>4972071
Could work on most raptors

>>4973164
Most seed eaters will eat any seeds, the only realistic solution is to take the sparrows out of the equation but I count you are willing to do that

>>4973255
*doubt. Sorry im phoneposting because its 5am and cant be bothered sitting at the puter

There is a bird outside that literally sounds like the cuckoo sound in the carnival of the animals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJpqN2oTgR8
I'm in northern Vermont. I can't see the bird, only hear it. Can anyone help me out to identify this bird?

>>4973438
download merlin bird id or some other phone app that can identify birds from sound

>>4973493
Can it differentiate bird calls/sounds if there is other birdsong going on? I'll try it out, but the bird is now gone. Hopefully tomorrow.

>>4973502
Same anon, just downloaded it and it's very precise. There can be multiple birds singing and it identifies all of them. Why didn't I use this sooner?

>>4973534
yeah these apps are quite accurate, I don't use the merlin one personally and instead use one focused on the species in my country
obviously they're not 100% sure so you want to compare the recording to the sounds of the birds it suggests

great tools for identifying and learning bird sounds

I was feeding a skunk cheese this morning and it found a dark eyed junco sitting on my driveway and ate that too.

wtf why is a junco roosting on the ground in the open... maybe it thought it was light enough to come down but then decided it wasn't and sat still to roost? Well it got eaten.

how to gather birds in my garden
a drinking fountain?

>>4974299
Birdbath
Birdhouses
Feeders

>>4944472
>double hawk tuad to death

>Gawain is descended from the Welsh Gwalch Gwyn
>Gwalch Gwyn stands for "white hawk"
>No bird I can find matches that description for native British Isle Birds
So is Gwlach Gwyn just poetic fiction or is/was there white hawks in the British Isles?

what type of bird is this ?

>>4974557
Common Starling

>>4974559
thanks

test.
Cutie albatross being monitored in New Zealand.

There's 2 bluebird couples one in my front yard one in the back
they are fighting over the mealworm feeder, keep fluttering wings. I thought it was like a begging thing but apparently it's an sign of aggression.

>>4974299
I put a big planter with a fountain in it and put some floaty wood in the water so there's kind of a platform. When the wood got fully saturated it sank so that was pointless but it turns out birds can float so they go in there and float around like miniature ducks. The water gets pretty nasty after a few weeks so I dump and refill it.

Also I had to use wire to make a platform for the fountain to rest on in the center so it doesn't shoot all the water out the sides. It's just big enough that in the center, the water lands back in the pot.

Do any of you guys watch Hideaki Utsumi AKA the wuewuewue bird guy's channel? It's honestly really great content; he's got like 4 different exotic parrots: a chattering lory, harlequin macaw, white cockatoo, and a black-legged parrot. Anyways, I was just wanted to comment on how strange his cockatoo is. It straight up makes 0 noise EVER. How is that possible? Those birds are known for screaming 24/7 at insanely high decibels.

>powerful owl
ok who the fuck names these things

>>4928828 (OP)
Caught this guy calling in a tree near my house. They're not very common here as they only pass through on their migration.

a magpie stole the eggs of the pigeons on my balcony today. sad... it was the closest thing to pets i had in many years. such is life

I have an injured wild galah. I'm dropping it to the vet tomorrow. Anything I should do so it doesn't die? Vets are closed today.

where are my hummingbirds i DEMAND HUMMINGBIRDS

There was a black throated green warbler singing to me yesterday. I hear them a lot, recognizable song, but don't see people mention them much

Finally found a Nightingale near me where they pretty very rare. Got a private concert for 25 minutes at 3m away. Couldn't find the lil nigga for like 15 minutes. Always found their song to be overrated but now I'm converted.

>>4974557
Terrorising Americans since 1890

One of my raven visitors is being weird this morning. Making a lot of vocalizations despite being alone, coming repeatedly to take more suet. Usually they come quietly once or twice. I wonder if something is wrong. The same raven couple has been around for 5 years, I hope one didn't get hurt.

>>4979727
for me it's the humble hummingbird

>>4928828 (OP)
God is truly amazing! What an incredibly strange and beautiful creature:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs8ovSxMgFQ

it's birdover

>>4981497
If we keep letting our cats outside, dumping sewage into lakes, and draining wetlands to make more monoculture cropfields, I'm sure the bird numbers will recover.

>>4981032
What the actual fuck?

People in my area have already got orioles at their feeders. Should I put out my hummingbird and oriole feeders now? It's been near the mid-20s Celsius as of late, and it's only the beginning of May!

>>4928828 (OP)
full of rage

Can I ask a pet bird question?
I have owned budgies and conures for years. I cover their cages each night to make it completely dark so they can sleep. I was told by a pet store worker recently that I actually shouldn't do this because they won't be able to see anything in the case of night frights. My grandmother and a family friend who used to own birds also covered their cages at night. What do I do: cover or not cover their cages? Google is giving mixed results.

>>4981516
They logged the forest around my house and drove logging machines through the wetlands. Probably out of spite because I asked them to be careful of it.
It's not even very big just a few acres but so many birds depend on it.

>>4982172
he looks like he's about to shoot up the cage

>all of the birbs running INT builds also live the longest
There's absolutely no balance in the avian community.

Seems I got 2 male indigo buntings. Females are harder to spot. They are hanging out with the goldfinches.

up early today to listen to the churds burping

>mockingbird is back again
what a racket

I thought after they logged the woods by my house I would not get any wood thrushes but they are here, and sound closer than usual. I guess because now the remaining woods is just around my house.

Such beautiful song I'm glad to still hear it. Worried the cowbirds will get to them though, it's one of their biggest threats when they nest in disturbed/suburban areas.

Got myself a rose-breasted grossbeak. Haven't had these at my feeder for a while.

>>4935100
Maybe they need to eat more to maintain body temperature?

>>4939810
They loathe him for his leaf. But, he knows he's better than the others.

>>4947126
Is that a lock? So nobody steals the falcon? I'm sure that's not right.

Holy fucking shit man I love birds

10/10 thread

>>4948653
>>4967578
>>4982172
(••)

>>4984911
Aw the beak in my kaomogi vanished (ノ°益°)ノ

My kot killed a little baby bird today

Can anyone help me identify a bird by it's song?
https://files.catbox.moe/5um38h.webm
It's in Poland, it only seemed to come out during dusk and dawn. I couldn't make out much visually, but it seemed a bit smaller than a pidgeon, I think.
I listened to a bunch of bird songs in search for this one, I think a song thrush sounds fairly similar, but it's not quite the same.
Any guesses?

Bluebird couple enjoying a meal together

>>4985019
Try submitting the audio to Birdnet or Merlin. Stupid apps only work on phone and I'm too lazy to extract the audio and send it to my phone.

>>4985019
song thrush
>>4985083
birdnet works on the web also
https://birdnet.cornell.edu/api/

Hey, /an/. Rate my crow. I've been working with it on my lunch breaks, but it's still pretty skittish.

From left to right : USB flash drive, herring gull, common gull. Guess what kind of pokemon the other three are?

>>4985378
Very nice anon. Just stay consistent and itll warm up to you

>>4984782
me too bird bro

Birb bros, there's a whip-poor-will outside my house that will not shut up. I'm trying to sleep but this little bastard will not shut up. I don't wanna disturb it, and it's strangely hypnotizing, but when will it stop?

>>4986274
Itll stop when it captures your soul escaping from your body as you die anon

>>4940795
extremely chill, tamed immediately if you offer food, cute and goofy faces and they're domesticated on top of it so you can just grab one if you really want to.
they're the perfect bird to hang around with in a park.

Birdbros please vote for my birb in the /an/lympics
https://files.catbox.moe/b8kisl.webm

Bought a cheap audio recorder (Tascam DR-05X) to record bird sounds from my window, mostly during the night but will do some daytime recordings too.

For processing the audio and finding the actual bird sounds I found a great open source software called Chirpity. For identifying the sounds, it uses BirdNET and some other model that's more focused on nocturnal calls.

Processing a ~2 hour (1,9 GB) recording on Chirpity took 40 seconds and the findings are pretty accurate apart from silly stuff like mistaking car sounds for a Bittern, but those are obvious to spot. It even detects human vocals separately which is nice.

>>4987125
I was thinking to get an audio recorder but then I'm like, I won't carry it around and when I want it I won't have it. Need like some mic that can plug into my phone and get way better audio, but still very small.

one quarter portion

>>4987125
That's pretty cool. I have an old canon t3i camera (also called a 550d) and bought a cheap Chinese zoom lens for $150. It gets amazing shots for the price. Especially if you are indoors behind a window and a bird is ~30' away you can get shots that show all the details of their feathers.
>>4987629
>Why must I suffer

>>4967578
>because you'd be in jail

>>4987820
Iv been trying to figure out wtf this is supposed to mean for an hour

>>4987656
I also plan on getting to photography and buying a camera at some point, good to hear there are some cost effective solutions. For now, I have an adapter so I can digiscope with my binoculars or my friend's scope, but I barely use it.

>>4987883
are you 7 years old lad

>>4988019
I gave up and googled it. Is it a trump joke? If it is that'll be why I didnt get it, I dont follow American politics

wtf is wrong with my bluebirds they have little babies in the box I can see the yellow beak and eyes looking at me but they don't make any noise when I check on the box or go look at it after, I barely see them going to it at all. I hope those babies do ok.

first time parents I'm guessing

>>4928828 (OP)
The WhiskyJack.
Based bird.

Couple of mallards showed up at my turkey feed pile (it's corn on the ground)

I've never had ducks visit before. Not very close to any water. I'm thrilled.

>>4928828 (OP)
https://youtu.be/f9YplyxjZi4?feature=shared

Bird expert needed. I got birds trying to build a nest on the roof of my home which is kind of annoying hearing thumping around the walls of my home. Would a bird house alleviate this problem and get them to move somewhere else or would it just attract more birds?

>>4991074
Depends on a bunch of stuff, like the kind of bird it actually is.

lol this starling fell asleep on my deck and the doves do not give a shit at all

>>4991074
Depends which bird, most won't use bird houses. Only cavity nesters will... if they are building a nest in the walls it's probably cavity nesters. If it's just in the open on gutters or something, probably not.

>>4928828 (OP)
Kakapo bros we're so back

Fly away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqeIiF0DlTg

>>4928828 (OP)
Do you guys still hear mourning doves? I saw a meme about how their habitats are being pushed back and realized I haven't heard one for a long time, decade+

found a fledgling titmouse so cute and barely afraid of me. I just checked on it as it's getting dark and skunks and raccoons will come out, I scared it on purpose to check if it can fly and it can, and its mom went to it after it flew away so all is good.

>>4993431
yes every day. I have many of them. There's a few at my feeders right now.

>>4991313
lmao. fat people nap.
>>4991503
Don't worry I got this bro.

>>4984784
>why did you wake me up?
>>4985378
Hell yeah. I didn't know there were white crows.

>>4990105
Hes clearly put them in there for the video.

>>4993666
They are actually suprisingly common but rarely make it to adulthood because they are rejected from the flock

>>4993698
but the birdo seems to want to take care of them

>>4993708
Yeah which implies they they are his bird and kittens. A wild parrot that is not from a household with cats would want nothing to do with the guy or the kittens, parrots are deathly afraid of anything they dont instantly recognize

>>4993701
I hate anti-white racism :(

>>4932364
>magpies also destroy whole nests of songbirds
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

pigeons building a nest on my balcony. destroyed the nest and hoping they stay away

>>4993431
>hoooo-ooh
>hoo
>hoo
>hoo

took this picture a while ago

>>4931973
MODS!!!!!

>>4928828 (OP)
I had a sparrow fledging die on me today. A neighbour's cat caught it while it was sitting on my fence, and by the time I got to it, the bird had basically gone unconscious. It had no external injuries, but from how quick it faded, I guess it had some internal injuries. It barely moved, it was breathing hard, and it had its eyes closed. I popped it in my shirt pocket to keep it warm and it just kept breathing hard. I sat with it for maybe 10 minutes, then its mum turned up and was watching from the fence. When she started chriping, the fledgling moved a little, shuffled forward in my pocket, and started opening and closing its beak like it was trying to chirp back but no sound came out. And a few hard breaths later, it just stopped. The mum kept chirping and watching me, even after I'd buried it, and she sat on the spade handle for maybe half an hour afterwards. I still keep thinking about it and still get teary.

I hate cats.

>>4995131
Those tiny birds die so easily. Delicate little things. I don't blame the cat though, rather the humans who introduce them and don't do anything about it. We could be rid of feral cats in a few years with a rigorous, nationwide trap/kill + poisoning regimen.

>>4993431
the doves near me make this sound when they are about to land on something, it sounds like a sarcastic teenager or something

>>4970831
No they are super cool. I saw a couple at work and they were not the hovery type. They were flying like normal birds super fast.
>>4995066
Very nice. Must be hard to capture flying birds.

>house sparrows taking over the feeders again
Wish I can trap them and send them all back to Europe.

>>4995575
That's their wings

I leave my door open in the cool morning and blue jay at the feeder looks at me, it knows I am friend. But why doesn't it fly inside to give me a kiss?

sure it's a sexy muscular blue jay too
I like it

>>4928828 (OP)
Don't have any photos, but for the 2nd year there's robin in the same nest, in a big, unusually well-maintained honeysuckle not far from my front door. There's something kind of hilarious about how how they pretend not to notice when you're very nearby, looking them straight in the eye.

>>4996356
Some people bitch about grackles being bullies, but I like them, especially for their dark glossy beauty. A chick I know seriously hates turkey vultures, and suspects them of preying upon cats and small dogs. Doubt that's the case, but in any case I enjoy the sight of them soaring lower troposphere thermals.

>>4996609
I don't mind grackles too much but I did see one peck open a baby goldfinch head and eat its brains. Kind of changed my opinion on them lol.
They're not as bad as starlings at least.

Spotted this baby blue jay while on a walk with my dog. Didn’t want to get too close since my dog can be reactive to small animals. It was in someone’s driveway so hopefully it’s safe and doesn’t get hit by the car if it backs out :(

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Cool little dude

Had to call in a state wildlife rehabilitation center to send in this crow fledgling, Thorn, my brother called to name him, being abandoned by his parents. The little guy was seen twice on his way to work and coming back home from work. Don't know how he'd survived thus far. Too many cats in the area would be easy pray plus maintenance was lawn mowing and moving by the clock. By law, it cannot be kept as a pet, must return to mother nature. There's a second fledgling doing well. Suppose the other wasn't as fortunate but I digress. It was a blessing to make a new friend. Crows are amazingly intelligent, they do not forget a face for several years so I hope to see Thorn again returning home to familiar branches.

Have a 'gull

>>5000195
I think it's a tern.

>>5000203
nta but looks like a black headed gull to me

Bonaparte's gull
Chroicocephalus philadelphia

A troupial.

i've been feeding corvids for years but haven't really heard their danger call until today
walked into our parking lot and two of them started to caw at me
turned out one of their chicks was on the ground
funny how they look with the white lipstick

>>5002066
I rarely see a few twice a year and they're always soaring higher than hawk. The very stature of an apex predator.

>>5002251
Majestic creatures

Can someone help me identify this bird I caught on my pool camera?

>>5002418
whereabouts

>>5002421
Central New Jersey

The bearded vulture, also known as the lammergeier or ossifrage, is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists almost entirely of bone. This unique scavenger consumes between 70 to 90 percent bone, including bone marrow, and is capable of swallowing or biting through brittle bones as large as a lamb's femur. Unlike other vultures that primarily consume meat, the bearded vulture typically disdains the meat and focuses on skeletal remains, making it the only bird species that specializes in feeding on bones.

Its digestive system is uniquely adapted to this diet, featuring extremely strong stomach acid with a pH of about 1, which dissolves bone within 24 hours.
If bones are too large to swallow, the vulture will drop them from great heights onto rocky surfaces to break them into smaller, manageable pieces—a behavior that has earned certain locations the ominous name "ossuaries".

The bearded vulture is found in parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe, typically inhabiting mountainous regions, plains, and lowlands. Despite its wide historical range, the species has experienced significant declines due to habitat loss, poisoning, and persecution fueled by myths that it preys on livestock and even children.
As of recent assessments, the species is categorized as Near Threatened globally, with European populations classified as Vulnerable. Conservation efforts are ongoing to protect and restore this remarkable bird’s populations.

One badass bird

Posting the two Parrots I want to hybridise!

This morning I think blue jay was trying to eat baby house wrens out of their nest box. It has a predator guard on it (so extra long entry hole) I don't think it could reach them but boy was mom pissed off.

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>>4986504
Pigeons are based, they just waddle around and peck at food. We get pigeons in our garden and they're funny. The only animals I dislike are ones who negatively affect me in some way, but pigeons don't do that.

>>5003469
>negatively affect me in some way
I've been neutral towards them until pigeons did exactly this to me by shitting on my balcony and trying to nest there. took two weeks of spooking and trying different deterrents to get rid of them, and I'm pretty sure they're nesting on the roof now.
they're beginning an exterior renovation next week and starting with painting the roof, so interesting to see what they'll do with the pigeons as they're a protected species while nesting

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the pigeons are back. i hope they watch their nest better this time

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