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Birb/borb appreciation thread

MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
edited April 11 in The Whirlpool
This is the thread for the appreciation of those cutest of dinosaurs: birbs and borbs.

For those who are unaware, the Audubon Society has provided very scientific descriptions of both for your edification:

When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide

What’s the Difference Between a ‘Borb’ and a ‘Floof’?

Some examples of birbs:

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Potoo

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Pink robin
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Saw-whet owl

Some examples of borbs:


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European robin
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YES

Floofs are of course also accepted, as floofs are are also birbs. Borbs are very common this time of year in the northern hemisphere, as birbs fluff themselves up for warmth.

Discuss!

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Over the past year, year and a half, I found out shoebills are real. They are huge, they are scary, and sometimes they look scarier than usual because they appear to be animatronic but they aren't. Somehow that makes them loop around for me into being appreciatable.

  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited December 2020
    I appreciate all these birds/borbs.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Also when I was running around with a Plague Knight avatar a couple of people mistook me for being a birb.

  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Sometimes I swear birds are trying to evolve themselves into the least aerodynamic shapes possible

    They're just all physicists, who have realized that aerodynamics is COMPLICATED and everything's easier if you model a bird as a perfect sphere, and have consequently tried to evolve into that shape because let's be honest, birds aren't super good at calculus so this seems like the easiest way to get their equations to work.

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  • MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    A good kind, like all birds.

  • Lavender GoomsLavender Gooms Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    Oh I know Borb, that's the sound a near-immortal Canadian makes when trying to get your attention.

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  • FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    Orca wrote: »
    What kind of bird is the Potoo?

    The muppet kind.

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    -Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    Borbs are best! Did an absolute minimal amount of birding this year because travel sucks, but hoping to get back into it next year.

  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    Here are some borbs I caught in the act

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  • VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
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    is borb?

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    'tis the season for plump chickadees.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Is this a borb, or a birb attempting to be a borb?

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  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    Doodmann wrote: »
    one of my biggest art "gets" this year was a birb:

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    Where did you get? What do?

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    I got wingspan on steam the other day.

    It’s a chill boardgame with great birb art and birb calls.

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  • LordSolarMachariusLordSolarMacharius Red wine with fish Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
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  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    But what about Barbs?
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  • VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
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    when birbs and borbs collide

  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    VishNub wrote: »
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    is borb?

    Is not borb, but is birb

  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    There will be justice for Barbs at a later time!

  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    What about uhl65lb72d7u.jpg

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    Steam! Battlenet:Wisemantobes#1508
  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Cristoval wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    one of my biggest art "gets" this year was a birb:

    fatbastard9_promo_1.jpg

    Where did you get? What do?

    https://www.sirmitchell.com/

    Thanks! Curse the limited run!

  • surfpossumsurfpossum A nonentity trying to preserve the anonymity he so richly deserves.Registered User regular
    I refilled the bird feeders in the backyard and also scattered a bunch of seeds everywhere yesterday and there are so many borbs

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Surfpossum wrote: »
    I refilled the bird feeders in the backyard and also scattered a bunch of seeds everywhere yesterday and there are so many borbs

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    oh?

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  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    Oh birds get fucked up on thermals, yeah

  • Mr RayMr Ray Sarcasm sphereRegistered User regular
    Since acquiring an Amazon parrot this year, my appreciation of birbs has increased roughly 1000%. To be more accurate, my partner has acquired a birb and I'm just along for the ride. Also chickens, which are also birbs I guess?

  • Lavender GoomsLavender Gooms Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    Let's not forget the original borb by Michael Smith.

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  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    Stop perpetuating the lies. Birds aren't real.

    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

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  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Back in February, Double Fine Studios found a nesting hummingbird outside of one of their windows. Over the course of a month or two, they livestreamed every day this hummingbird and her nest. While the streamed videos are no longer available, they did put together a birb tribute video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovw1eoVBuIc

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  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    Big Year is a good movie and very expensive with a stacked ass cast. It's also great for Christmas time. Everyone go watch Big Year and see Owen Wilson be a turd and Jack Black do a contractually mandated prat-fall!

  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    edited December 2020
    I actually saw a Carolina wren at my feeder the other day which was pretty wild since I didn't think they came this far north in the winter.

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    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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