Rolling Avian Issues Thread

*rereads Remainder*

they sell for $5 each apparently so scarcely as rarified as all that

just the sort of thing any sylvan dwelling cypriot bloke would have for supper of an evening

maybe drug dealers sell them along with other contraband

casu marzu stylee yh

but a single songbird is tiny, you'd need 7 or 8 to remotely sate you

would u be prepared to try it if an ecologist could persuade u that the relevant species are not in existential danger?

also prepared to eat bird entrails

That makes sense. It's weird to think of birds getting lonely and being super needy, but I guess it happens when you keep an animal capable of flight inside a house.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:25 (Yesterday)

i...oh this is v difficult. aesthetically no, gastronomically yes. let's say no because i never will, realistically

the only circumstance i would eat them is an uncovering of Real Cyprus with J Meades

oh yeah he is really into all sorts of grotty offal type things from provincial france

distinctly recall a Jeremy Clarkson tour of France wherein he ate ortolan

Meades would do similar but with tenfold grace & historiographic insight

http://online.wsj.com/articles/uncorking-the-city-birds-bubbles-pairs-champagne-and-fried-chicken-1411091445

haha I was going to ask abt ur WSJ membership but you don't actually need any more than is previewed

City Grit

http://i.imgur.com/tIO0iAt.jpg

this is where it will have all been heading

a strigiform, no less

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrSpP7qsZ1E

Der Alpenstrandläufer (Calidris alpina) ist eine zirkumpolar verbreitete Vogelart aus der Familie der Schnepfenvögel (Scolopacidae)

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/babes-of-the-bnp

http://i.imgur.com/Imw8bq8.jpg

In the warm rain of the next day the chiffchaff sings
among the rosy blossoms of the leafless larches, a small
voice that yet reaches from the valley to the high hill.
It is a double, many times repeated note that foretells the
cuckoo's. In the evening the songs are bold and full, but
the stems of the beeches are faint as soft columns of
smoke and the columns of smoke from the cottages are
like them in the still air.

Yet another frost follows, and in the dim golden light
just after sunrise the shadows of all the beeches lie on
the slopes, dark and more tangible than the trees, as if
they were the real and those standing upright were the
returned spirits above the dead.

Now rain falls and relents and falls again all day, and
the earth is hidden under it, and as from a land submerged
the songs mount through the veil. The mists waver out
of the beeches like puffs of smoke or hang upon them
or in them like fleeces caught in thorns : in the just pene-
trating sunlight the long boles of the beeches shine, and
the chaffinch, the yellowhammer and the cirl bunting
sing songs of blissful drowsiness. The Downs, not yet
green, rise far off and look, through the rain, like old
thatched houses.

http://i.imgur.com/OUAlkUT.jpg?1

wd not want to guess at the species

Canus iirc

some of these avians that they have now.....my word

http://i.imgur.com/Tr4w0Dr.jpg

www.theaviaryperth.com.au/

Welcome to The Aviary - Perth's largest rooftop bar with The Bird Cage Restaurant and lounge located on Level 1.

at this time of year, British avians are apt to be frigipedal and migratory

Your search - frigipedal - did not match any documents

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_lV1fXHF05I/TuiPvRJAAlI/AAAAAAAACs4/fyuNJ4QyngQ/s1600/DSC00478.JPG

Caim In Bird Form received a limited cassette release through Digitalis earlier this year, and the Oklahoma imprint has confirmed that the record will get a full vinyl release next month. A press release for the LP describes is as "somewhere between Kassem Mosse, The New Blockaders and Zoviet*France."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbvH9r8D9HU

The score is prefaced with the words:

Once I saw an Oockooing bird
so white
o God so white

from 1950 so he was 15 or 16 when he wrote it

In his travels he took great interest in wildlife and gave a scientific name to the Arabian woodpecker (Desertipicus (now Dendrocopos) dorae), as well as a subspecies (no longer valid) of an scops owl (Otus scops pamelae). Most of his birds were named after women whom he admired. He contributed numerous specimens to the British Museum. He also contributed to the draft of a book on the birds of Arabia by George Latimer Bates. It was not published but was made use of in Birds of Arabia (1954) by Richard Meinertzhagen. Philby is remembered in ornithology by the name of Philby's partridge (Alectoris philbyi). [11][12]

Meinertzhagen's passion for bird-watching began as a child. He and his brother Daniel (VII) were encouraged by a family friend, the philosopher Herbert Spencer, who, like another family friend, Charles Darwin, was an ardent empiricist. Spencer would take young Richard and Daniel on walks around their home in Mottisfont, urging them to observe and enquire on the habits of birds. Around 1887 they kept a pet sparrowhawk, which they would take to Hyde Park to let it prey on sparrows.

many aeroplane takeoff accidents happen when birds are disturbed by one plane and then get struck by another's jet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2zB7Z-b6Kc

Nadeem Moulana
4 years ago

this video is so trippy, I love the sounds. I watched it when I was high and I can never forget the last seconds when you can see the grass as the planes smashes the ground. This is awesome footage, one of my favorite videos on youtube.

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i liked that jet crashing video too

fwiw I own a copy of The Charm Of Birds, a season-by-season observational account of Britain's avians penned by long-serving Foreign Secretary Edward Gray, who strove in vain to prevent World War 1 before composing his masterpiece

fairly interesting figure as late-empire uk political highrankers go

edward grey did very little to prevent anything, his actions and inactions mostly followed a via media between the hard right of the army hierarchy and the liberal mainstream, he rejected most of the entreaties from the german hierarchy that might have restrained the war factions in both countries (and the rest of the entente and central powers)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Imperialists

:/ oh

he had a way with a soundbite, but that faction seems somewhat pandering

no less

https://twitter.com/SussexWildlife/status/550007097522659328

;_; hny

went birdwatching to sevenoaks wildlife reserve yesterday

it went brilliantly. we saw a kingfisher in flight at the very outset, a tremendous flock of peewit, many shovelers, a smattering of snipe…and then, right at the end, as evening fell, we saw two of the best and rarest birds I've ever seen - a lone great white egret, looking for all the world like a vase or a large binbag, suddenly sprouting a neck and flying off enormously - clearly not a (more common) little egret due to its vast size and slow heronish wingbeat - and then, the american white ibis that will have attracted many 'twitchers' (birdwatchers with text alerts) to the reserve - spotted amongst a large gaggle of geese as it pecked around wondering how it ended up in sevenoaks in january away from all the other ibises

basically, two unusual herons. but fret not, for the grey sort were there in force as well. herons are surely among the best of non-passerines

thought about reviving this thread earlier when something that looked like a jay in colour but slightly more hench and closer to a woodpecker in shape flew off of a branch that it was sitting athwart about 1 second after i looked at it

there was a jay/green woodpecker confusion at the reserve yesterday too. later sightings of jay probably confirmed the earlier one.

course you might have seen a waxwing in which case i am slain

shit, that's it