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
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/londonbirders/images/0/07/102_-_105_Waxwings.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110115210218
Taken on Drayton Park Road opposite the Arsenal steps. Waxwings in a Rowan tree.
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 January 2015 11:14 (nine years ago) link
two bodybuilding bros argue about the starling-sized birds in that tree
― imago, Monday, 5 January 2015 11:25 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/eOWL8i1.png
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 January 2015 11:54 (nine years ago) link
that first one really is peering
― imago, Monday, 5 January 2015 11:57 (nine years ago) link
now do someone pissing on a molehill next to sunderland's finest
― imago, Monday, 5 January 2015 11:59 (nine years ago) link
there was one of those regionally relevant interludes in the pittsburgh/baltimore game featuring, appropiately enough, a rather wretched looking raven from the national aviary in pittsburgh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aviary
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/FranklinSpectacleOwlChick.jpg/520px-FranklinSpectacleOwlChick.jpg
Franklin, the spectacled owl chick
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
bare magnolia room with incongruous transverse branch where Franklin shall die
― London's Left-Wing Utopian Non-League Ultras Are Reclaiming Football (imago), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
lmao
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mafsxxMNb41qkgm7po1_500.gif
― Stanić Ritual Abuse (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 02:44 (nine years ago) link
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4005/4592455560_b04bf29320.jpg
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 08:17 (nine years ago) link
that does not look like a bird species that exists
― rae sredrum (imago), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 08:20 (nine years ago) link
maybe in delaware?
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 08:25 (nine years ago) link
would not put anything past delaware
― rae sredrum (imago), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 08:27 (nine years ago) link
An executioner in Mecca, the holy city, took two swings to hack off Layla bint Abdul Mutaleb Bassim's head, after she was found guilty of beating the girl and raping her with a broomstick.
― Hayat Boumkattienne (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
From Arabic بِنْت (bínt, “girl, daughter”), used to denote a patronym.
The term entered the British lexicon during the occupation of Egypt at the end of the nineteenth century, where it was adopted by British soldiers to mean "girlfriend" or "bit on the side". It is used as a derogatory slang word in the United Kingdom, meaning 'woman' or 'girl'. Its register varies from that of the harsher bitch to an affectionate term for a young woman, the latter being more commonly associated with the West Midlands. The term was used in British armed forces and the London area synonymously with bird in its slang usage from at least the 1950s.
Saw some golden eagles passing through Guadalajara today. Or i assume they were golden eagles, the Iberian imperial eagle being much less likely.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/PO2ILrF.jpg
golden oriole, greenfinch, bullfinch, firecrest. maybe a redpoll and a hawfinch. rest have me stumped.
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:10 (nine years ago) link
is that an album that many avians will have downloaded
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
these two may have listened to a couple of tracks from a streaming service at the insistence of ILAFL's finest MENA pugilist, but would need to return to it to have an opinion much beyond 'seems nice, cool forest sounds'
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
the greenfinch is the only avian i know there
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
passerines
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
are they one of the more dominant passerines?
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Greenfinches have suffered a terrible decline in the last decade. Used to get them daily in the garden, now cannot remember the last time I even saw one. Chaffinches and goldfinches still going well, in the UK at least.
Finches are amongst the most dominant passerines on the whole though, yes. They're seen as more highly developed than most other families, I think.
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
I have packed a large bird guide today for educational reasons. I will look up the greenfinch in a bit.
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
how do u rate dunnocks in the avian firnament
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
extremely high
they skulk in the literal, glowering sense, as much rodent as bird in behaviour, rarely putting more than four inches between themselves and the ground, even in flight. of course they are beautiful as well with surprisingly rich patterning. another garden standard & yet they never fail to thrill
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
you are like avian version of the egyptian god who weighed the souls of the dead
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
a novice
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Smales, I. (2006)
Impacts of Avian Collision with Wind Power Turbines: AnOverview of the Modelling of Cumulative Risks Posed by Multiple WindFarms
Report for the Department of Environment and Heritage. Pro-ject No. 5182. Biosis Research Pty Ltd., Melbourne
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link
^rain of blood
went rambling in cassiobury park, watford this morning. not your average park. among others, saw a redwing, fieldfares, treecreepers, goldcrests and a siskin, the latter identified for the first time. heading home now very excited. it is an exceptional park, better maybe than any london park
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
ilx-searching 'cassiobury' leads to a short & pithy thread in which I posted, under my original nom de plume, perhaps one of my wringer posts. the thread also features peak nordicskilla
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 12:37 (nine years ago) link
wronger, even
but that siskin, right
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
loves his avians does lj
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
loves his avians
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
goldcrests are pretty chill admittedly
http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/130129.html
somewhat resembles the inimitable and dearly departed jeff
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Thursday, 5 February 2015 08:14 (nine years ago) link
loved his avians did jeff
loved his avians
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
In the 1980s, Azzam travelled throughout the Middle East, Europe and North America, including 50 cities in the United States, to raise money and preach about jihad. He inspired young Muslims with stories of miraculous deeds, mujahideen who defeated vast columns of Soviet troops virtually single-handed, who had been run over by tanks but survived, who were shot but unscathed by bullets.[22] Angels were witnessed riding into battle on horseback, and falling bombs were intercepted by birds, which raced ahead of the jets to form a protective canopy over the warriors.[22][23]
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 8 February 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgv5ixxgTsQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=152
those avians, my word
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 04:57 (nine years ago) link
a squirrel sitting upon the bough of a tree, eating some unidentified organic matteron the ground beneath, a robin waited for crumbs to fall
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Friday, 20 February 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link
I am not much of a birdwatcher (I like working by the river and seeing ducks and moorhens though) but lately the tree outside my flat window has had a busy gang of chaffinches* pecking all over it for about twenty minutes every day and then disappearing, and they make me very happy
also some yellower, smaller finches, same white λ-shaped flashes on the wings; not sure if siskins or greenfinches or something else entirely
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 20 February 2015 09:20 (nine years ago) link
this thread isn't really about birdwatching, but about LJ's foibles w/ re women
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Friday, 20 February 2015 09:23 (nine years ago) link
if you want to post about birds, that's cool too
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Friday, 20 February 2015 09:24 (nine years ago) link
They could be goldfinches too! Sarahell don't you feel this thread may have transcended its original purpose fairly quickly?
nakho's robin exuding a corvine cunning there, v heartening
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Friday, 20 February 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link
seen so many dunnocks recently, they whirr about slowly like moths
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Friday, 20 February 2015 11:25 (nine years ago) link
How much of a nightmare is it to own a bird? [Started by Josefa in February 2015, last updated 15 seconds ago by bojaxhiu mother derive (imago) on I Love Everything] 8 new answers
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:41 (nine years ago) link
so angry
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:42 (nine years ago) link
the avians you own, end up owning you
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:45 (nine years ago) link