would u be prepared to try it if an ecologist could persuade u that the relevant species are not in existential danger?
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
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)
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
i...oh this is v difficult. aesthetically no, gastronomically yes. let's say no because i never will, realistically
― imago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
the only circumstance i would eat them is an uncovering of Real Cyprus with J Meades
― imago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah he is really into all sorts of grotty offal type things from provincial france
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
distinctly recall a Jeremy Clarkson tour of France wherein he ate ortolan
Meades would do similar but with tenfold grace & historiographic insight
― imago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
http://online.wsj.com/articles/uncorking-the-city-birds-bubbles-pairs-champagne-and-fried-chicken-1411091445
― macho nonreal (nakhchivan), Monday, 22 September 2014 10:55 (nine years ago) link
haha I was going to ask abt ur WSJ membership but you don't actually need any more than is previewed
― imago, Monday, 22 September 2014 10:56 (nine years ago) link
City Grit
― imago, Monday, 22 September 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tIO0iAt.jpg
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
this is where it will have all been heading
― Ѿ (imago), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
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)
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 September 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/babes-of-the-bnp
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 11:57 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Imw8bq8.jpg
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 October 2014 03:36 (nine years ago) link
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.
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 October 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OUAlkUT.jpg?1
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Saturday, 18 October 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
wd not want to guess at the species
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Saturday, 18 October 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Canus iirc
― sarahell, Saturday, 18 October 2014 03:27 (nine years ago) link
some of these avians that they have now.....my word
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 October 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
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.
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Monday, 27 October 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
at this time of year, British avians are apt to be frigipedal and migratory
― pecker shrivellage (imago), Thursday, 30 October 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
Your search - frigipedal - did not match any documents
― sarahell, Thursday, 30 October 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_lV1fXHF05I/TuiPvRJAAlI/AAAAAAAACs4/fyuNJ4QyngQ/s1600/DSC00478.JPG
― ͤ ͬͤ ͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤ (sarahell), Friday, 21 November 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
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."
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 12:39 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbvH9r8D9HU
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
The score is prefaced with the words:
Once I saw an Oockooing bird so white o God so white
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
from 1950 so he was 15 or 16 when he wrote it
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
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]
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Friday, 26 December 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Friday, 26 December 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
many aeroplane takeoff accidents happen when birds are disturbed by one plane and then get struck by another's jet
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Monday, 29 December 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2zB7Z-b6Kc
Nadeem Moulana4 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.
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Monday, 29 December 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
women - public strain [Started by Palpatean Mists (Lowell N. Behold'n) in March 2011, last updated 3 minutes ago by imago on I Love Music] 1 new answer
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Monday, 29 December 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
i liked that jet crashing video too
― imago, Monday, 29 December 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 29 December 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
fairly interesting figure as late-empire uk political highrankers go
― imago, Monday, 29 December 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
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
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Monday, 29 December 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
:/ oh
he had a way with a soundbite, but that faction seems somewhat pandering
― imago, Monday, 29 December 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
no less
https://twitter.com/SussexWildlife/status/550007097522659328
― tone pulising (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
;_; hny
― imago, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 5 January 2015 09:52 (nine years ago) link
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
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 January 2015 09:57 (nine years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 5 January 2015 09:59 (nine years ago) link
shit, that's it
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 January 2015 10:00 (nine years ago) link
slightly smaller than a starling = typed this almost verbatim earlier
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 January 2015 10:02 (nine years ago) link
have dreamed of seeing one of those since i was 6 and never have
― imago, Monday, 5 January 2015 10:04 (nine years ago) link
90% sure that was it
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 January 2015 10:05 (nine years ago) link
Bohemian waxwings are not brood parasitised by the common cuckoo or its relatives in Eurasia because the cuckoo's young cannot survive on a largely fruit diet. In North America, the waxwing's breeding range has little overlap with brown-headed cowbird, another parasitic species. Nevertheless, eggs of other birds placed in a Bohemian waxwing's nest are always rejected. This suggests that in the past, perhaps 3 million years ago, the ancestral waxwing was a host of a brood parasitic species, and retains the rejection behaviour acquired then.
^^^this stuff is terrifying & fascinating
― imago, Monday, 5 January 2015 10:07 (nine years ago) link
posted this elsewhere but as an avian avian issue it needs to be here as well
The pollutant methylmercury is a globally distributed neurotoxin and an endocrine system disruptor. In the Everglades ecosystem, human pollution has led to increased concentrations of methylmercury, which have impacted the behaviors of the American white ibis.[67] Hormone levels in males are affected, leading to a decrease in the rates of key courtship behavior, and fewer approaches by females during the mating season.[68] In addition, methylmercury also increased male-male pairing behaviors by 55%. Both the chemically induced "homosexual" behavior and the diminished ability to attract females by males have reduced reproduction rates in affected populations.
― imago, Monday, 5 January 2015 10:18 (nine years ago) link