I don't think borb and birb are exclusive categories. Based on the rules in this taxonomy guide, I would say they hit all 3 qualifications for being a birb.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
I have seen a roadrunner just hanging out near a cactus patch I walk past over the last few days
I got a good look at it and it's a young adult with some of it's fluff still
So, my neighbor's back yard has a bird nest i've just discovered (Disclamer: I walk her puppy, i was not just invading her back yard because)!
Less cool: it appears to just be a Eursian blackbird. Boo! Thankfully, by all reports these dont actually screw up our native birb populations or cause any overt hell with them.
Still! Baby birbs! and doing well, so that's nice.
A pair of rifleman/tītipounamu have taken home security to the next level by building a nest with 4 eggs in a set possum trap! The Otago Peninsula Biodiversity Group found it during a routine trap check and have since closed off the entrance and set traps around the tree.
[pictures of trap and nest]
Tweeter is someone who once followed me because I tweeted about NZ birbs.
A breeding pair down in Otago have decided to go best-best-defense-is-a-good-offense, by domiciling inside a live spring-loaded predator trap.
Titipounamu nesting note:
When attempting to attract a mate, the male Titipounamu will build multiple nests, usually in small tree hollows, and then show each of them to the female, who will decide which one she likes best.
So consider, if you will, the poor bastard who threw this together last minute thinking "look, I need to have an obvious wrong choice so she goes for that nice Rimu tree down by the stream" only for her to stand outside, take one look and sniff "well, at least this one isn't damp".
Additional note: The average Titipounamu egg is about the size of my thumbnail.
Is it colonial imperialism to not speak a different language?
I mean
Kinda.
How?
I'm being a jackass, but also smh if you don't have a dog-eared, care-worn piece of ruled notebook paper in your sock drawer with an ever-growing list of all the languages you intend to learn to speak before you die.
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Is it colonial imperialism to not speak a different language?
I mean
Kinda.
How?
I'm being a jackass, but also smh if you don't have a dog-eared, care-worn piece of ruled notebook paper in your sock drawer with an ever-growing list of all the languages you intend to learn to speak before you die.
Well... yeah. I still want to learn the Latin I started in high school, and I was trying to teach myself Spanish last year before giving up in frustration. I feel more like I was let down by the US education system.
I took French in high school because Spanish was full and I kind of knew Deutsch at the time. I learned Japanese in the Corps and I learned Korean in an odd way [from K pop/ webcomics and a certain tv show}
But overran with predators!
A red tailed hawk in the top of the tree in my front yard
A roadrunner in the driveway
This last summer I had a campsite that was at most a couple hundred feet from a great horned owl nest, and the first night there a second owl showed up. After the ensuing hoot-off the loser was chased off right over my tent, but the loser didn't really leave the area. All night long was what can best be described as depressed hooting, with the winner occasionally responding in loud "shut the fuck up" hoots.
Campsite was also less than 10 feet from the bank of a beaver pond, with the dam and Lodge even closer than the owl nest. Spent all day watching beavers do beaver stuff, and then dealt with the feuding owl neighbors at night.
Oh, and then there were the trumpeter swans and loons in the lake just down the hill...
I highly recommend camping in northern Wisconsin in the spring and fall. Summer is great, but the mosquitoes and other biting bugs are generally overwhelming.
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I've been wondering who has been letting off Roman Candle rockets in the early evening for the last few weeks before it even gets fully dark but have finally come to the conclusion that one of the local Song Thrushes has apparently learned how to mimic fireworks at Guy Fawkes last month and has added it to their evening set.
Ah yes, one thing I like about this time of year is all the juncos come to my yard. They're the most birby birb that ever birbed. I love them. They're so round and fluffy.
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Tynnanseldom correct, never unsureRegistered Userregular
Ah yes, one thing I like about this time of year is all the juncos come to my yard. They're the most birby birb that ever birbed. I love them. They're so round and fluffy.
I'm pretty tired and getting delirious, and my mind pictured little birds made out of jnco jeans.
Massachusetts' Division of Fisheries and Wildlife posted on Facebook on Monday saying the bird, known as a Steller's sea eagle, was spotted along the Taunton River. It says the large bird weighs as much as 20 pounds, with a wingspan of up to 8 feet.
Steller's sea eagles are native to China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea and eastern Russia, so this bird is at least 5,000 miles from home. But what's even wilder is that the same exact bird has been traveling across North America since at least August 2020.
It was first spotted in Alaska during the summer of 2020. Then the bird was seen in Texas and then around Nova Scotia on Canada's east coast last month, Smithsonian magazine reported in November.
Birders are sure it's the same eagle because it has unique white markings on its wings, the magazine said.
A week ago, the day after the last line of powerful storms that brought the wind warnings to the Midwest, I saw the biggest bird I had ever seen fly by. The bird soared over a road I was driving about 100 feet in front and a telephone pole high, and then gliding into a field as I drove by. It looked like a golden eagle, but I only saw it from a side and rear profile. It was obviously bigger than any eagle I had ever seen, and it definitely wasn't a vulture or some other easy to confuse bird of prey. I'm pretty sure that what I saw was the biggest golden eagle I will ever see, but a small part keeps hoping it had been this wanderer from China being blown way off course by that storm. Seriously doubt it since the timeline does not match, but a bird watcher can dream, right?
Keep an eye to the sky. There's some amazing things to see out there.
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MayabirdPecking at the keyboardRegistered Userregular
Ah yes, one thing I like about this time of year is all the juncos come to my yard. They're the most birby birb that ever birbed. I love them. They're so round and fluffy.
I'm pretty tired and getting delirious, and my mind pictured little birds made out of jnco jeans.
Can't help with the "made out of jeans" part, but puffleg hummingbirds have little fluffy pantaloons:
But also owls often have fluffy legs:
And also the yellow-thighed finch from that article wears shorts:
hey bird thread! A few nights ago I heard a hooting and a screeching right outside my house at night. Looked up the calls and my best guess was a barn owl and a great horned owl both landed in the trees and started arguing about who would get to hunt the moles in our lot.
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As in, orb birds.
https://www.audubon.org/news/when-bird-birb-extremely-important-guide
I got a good look at it and it's a young adult with some of it's fluff still
Less cool: it appears to just be a Eursian blackbird. Boo! Thankfully, by all reports these dont actually screw up our native birb populations or cause any overt hell with them.
Still! Baby birbs! and doing well, so that's nice.
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[pictures of trap and nest]
Tweeter is someone who once followed me because I tweeted about NZ birbs.
A breeding pair down in Otago have decided to go best-best-defense-is-a-good-offense, by domiciling inside a live spring-loaded predator trap.
Titipounamu nesting note:
When attempting to attract a mate, the male Titipounamu will build multiple nests, usually in small tree hollows, and then show each of them to the female, who will decide which one she likes best.
So consider, if you will, the poor bastard who threw this together last minute thinking "look, I need to have an obvious wrong choice so she goes for that nice Rimu tree down by the stream" only for her to stand outside, take one look and sniff "well, at least this one isn't damp".
Additional note: The average Titipounamu egg is about the size of my thumbnail.
Fuck
I mean
Kinda.
How?
I'm being a jackass, but also smh if you don't have a dog-eared, care-worn piece of ruled notebook paper in your sock drawer with an ever-growing list of all the languages you intend to learn to speak before you die.
Well... yeah. I still want to learn the Latin I started in high school, and I was trying to teach myself Spanish last year before giving up in frustration. I feel more like I was let down by the US education system.
I can still understand some though
But overran with predators!
A red tailed hawk in the top of the tree in my front yard
A roadrunner in the driveway
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Campsite was also less than 10 feet from the bank of a beaver pond, with the dam and Lodge even closer than the owl nest. Spent all day watching beavers do beaver stuff, and then dealt with the feuding owl neighbors at night.
Oh, and then there were the trumpeter swans and loons in the lake just down the hill...
I highly recommend camping in northern Wisconsin in the spring and fall. Summer is great, but the mosquitoes and other biting bugs are generally overwhelming.
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I'm pretty tired and getting delirious, and my mind pictured little birds made out of jnco jeans.
Yeah, you don't want to risk the collective outrage
A week ago, the day after the last line of powerful storms that brought the wind warnings to the Midwest, I saw the biggest bird I had ever seen fly by. The bird soared over a road I was driving about 100 feet in front and a telephone pole high, and then gliding into a field as I drove by. It looked like a golden eagle, but I only saw it from a side and rear profile. It was obviously bigger than any eagle I had ever seen, and it definitely wasn't a vulture or some other easy to confuse bird of prey. I'm pretty sure that what I saw was the biggest golden eagle I will ever see, but a small part keeps hoping it had been this wanderer from China being blown way off course by that storm. Seriously doubt it since the timeline does not match, but a bird watcher can dream, right?
Keep an eye to the sky. There's some amazing things to see out there.
Can't help with the "made out of jeans" part, but puffleg hummingbirds have little fluffy pantaloons:
But also owls often have fluffy legs:
And also the yellow-thighed finch from that article wears shorts:
Stolen stock image picture because all I got was some pixelly phone video