The holiday birb thread was such a success that people wanted it brought back for the rest of the year. So here it is!
This is the thread for all things bird, from the cute
birbs and
borbs,

to your memes and funny videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY436JiiCjg
and also bird facts and even ancient birds*

such as
Microraptor here.
Let's get our birding on!
*I am totally fine with this also being a dinosaur thread, even the non-avian dinosaurs.
Posts
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False Knees is a comic with well drawn birbs. Also the comic is probably true about mourning doves.
American brown pelicans: catching fish by diving head first into the sea at high speeds
@Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud friend pelican: provide n\aps!
owls are pretty cool
a government issued drone, apparently
Tbh I think the goose reacts this way in all situations just or unjust
LOVE
BIRB
We have a flock of 7-9 oriental pied hornbills in my neighborhood and they bring me so much joy all the time despite being EXTREMELY loud and not beautiful-sounding
This morning I saw rose-ringed parakeets around the block - they come and go in the 'hood just like the tanimbar corellas
Both of those are introduced, the hornbills are native and have made a great recovery from near-local-extinction
We also have a few oriental magpie robins around my block that sound so beautiful it's amazing. Unfortunately this means that they're very popular as illegally-caught-and-caged songbirds, which is a real issue here
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
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Steam // Secret Satan
Yeah, what about 'em?
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Eagle: I'm gonna eat that turkey.
Turkey:
Obviously this behavior is not ideal, so I chase them off whenever they approach me. But they are such beautiful animals, and it's honestly amazing to see them up close.
They are also very obviously dinosaurs at that distance. Gorgeous, iridescent bronze dinosaurs with pink and blue faces and elegant, stabby ivory beaks :razz:
guys don't make peacocks angry
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
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Can they play basketball?
Seems legit.
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I'm thinking that's a lungfish.
And now an educational thread about how crossbill beaks work:
Or in video form:
Fun fact: the flight call of the white-winged crossbill is "yep!" A flock of them flying around cheerfully says, "Yep! Yep yep yep! Yep yep!" continuously.
I think this is the article about that bucket o' owls. One guy dug burrows for those owls by himself, almost two hundred, and monitors the dozens of burrowing owls and chicks that use them.