Rolling Avian Issues Thread

that does not look like a bird species that exists

maybe in delaware?

would not put anything past delaware

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.

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.

http://i.imgur.com/PO2ILrF.jpg

golden oriole, greenfinch, bullfinch, firecrest. maybe a redpoll and a hawfinch. rest have me stumped.

is that an album that many avians will have downloaded

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'

the greenfinch is the only avian i know there

passerines

are they one of the more dominant passerines?

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.

I have packed a large bird guide today for educational reasons. I will look up the greenfinch in a bit.

how do u rate dunnocks in the avian firnament

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

you are like avian version of the egyptian god who weighed the souls of the dead

a novice

Smales, I. (2006)

Impacts of Avian Collision with Wind Power Turbines: An
Overview of the Modelling of Cumulative Risks Posed by Multiple Wind
Farms

Report for the Department of Environment and Heritage. Pro-
ject No. 5182. Biosis Research Pty Ltd., Melbourne

^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

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

wronger, even

but that siskin, right

loves his avians does lj

loves his avians

goldcrests are pretty chill admittedly

http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/130129.html

somewhat resembles the inimitable and dearly departed jeff

loved his avians did jeff

loved his avians

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]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgv5ixxgTsQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=152

those avians, my word

a squirrel sitting upon the bough of a tree, eating some unidentified organic matter
on the ground beneath, a robin waited for crumbs to fall

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

this thread isn't really about birdwatching, but about LJ's foibles w/ re women

if you want to post about birds, that's cool too

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

seen so many dunnocks recently, they whirr about slowly like moths

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

so angry

the avians you own, end up owning you

corvids tend to peck at anything that glints, such as a human eye opening one morning

Tom Jones, when very young, had presented Sophia with a little bird, which he had taken from the nest, had nursed up, and taught to sing.

Of this bird, Sophia, then about thirteen years old, was so extremely fond, that her chief business was to feed and tend it, and her chief pleasure to play with it. By these means little Tommy, for so the bird was called, was become so tame, that it would feed out of the hand of its mistress, would perch upon the finger, and lie contented in her bosom, where it seemed almost sensible of its own happiness; though she always kept a small string about its leg, nor would ever trust it with the liberty of flying away.

One day, when Mr Allworthy and his whole family dined at Mr Western's, Master Blifil, being in the garden with little Sophia, and observing the extreme fondness that she showed for her little bird, desired her to trust it for a moment in his hands. Sophia presently complied with the young gentleman's request, and after some previous caution, delivered him her bird; of which he was no sooner in possession, than he slipt the string from its leg and tossed it into the air.

The foolish animal no sooner perceived itself at liberty, than forgetting all the favours it had received from Sophia, it flew directly from her, and perched on a bough at some distance.

Sophia, seeing her bird gone, screamed out so loud, that Tom Jones, who was at a little distance, immediately ran to her assistance.

He was no sooner informed of what had happened, than he cursed Blifil for a pitiful malicious rascal; and then immediately stripping off his coat he applied himself to climbing the tree to which the bird escaped.

Tom had almost recovered his little namesake, when the branch on which it was perched, and that hung over a canal, broke, and the poor lad plumped over head and ears into the water.

Blifil, tree otm

Blifil was a cunt as any fule kno

Read the first 1/3 of TJ maybe nine or ten years ago, can't recall

the tree was the most otm there

some of these avians they have now

gawjus

The little crew of waterfowl i pass on the way to work has added a very handsome tufted duck to its membership. Not sure if it got separated from a larger migrating flock but it seems to have been adopted.

who is in this crew

do you have names for them

do you imagine their characters & their place within the crew dynamic

Eight to ten ducks, similar number of moorhen. Occasionally a heron will appear but it is not part of the crew.

I don't have names for them but have been thinking more about the dynamics since the tufted duck arrived. Like, can you just blow in from Iceland and be considered one of the boys overnight?

these ducks are mallards right, or is there a red-crested pochard contingent? this is important as pochards are diving ducks, as with tufteds, and so there's a bit of commonality to cling to. yer gadwall/shoveler/mallard dabblers won't mix with what they'd surely regard as little diving inferiors, grebes with airs

Yes, all mallards. idk, they seem to be getting on ok so far, but it's early days.