Rolling Avian Issues Thread

that's what i call a role model

he wrote 100 books!

the guy n smith of his day

lol those are actually my pursuits

That did not escape my notice although you have a way to go before you catch up with best beloved benson

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another hellene with bird
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Two particularly bad-tempered dachshunds belonging to the German Emperor, named Wadl and Hexl, almost caused an international incident, when they set upon the heir-presumptive Archduke Franz Ferdinand's priceless golden pheasant on a semi-official visit to his country seat, château Konopiště.

discovered the other day that there is only one lady amherst's pheasant left in britain, had assumed there was a small but thriving population. it's now a race against time to see who lives longer: it or people born before 1900. either way a dark shadow will cross my heart, twice

it's very sad and i hope that more are imported and released on the sly by a wealthy avian enthusiast (there's no chance of a reintroduction campaign as it's non-native)

http://www.askmen.com/top_10/celebrity/top-10-21st-century-playboys.html

thought yr interest in game birds was more alimentary in character

i thought it was the avian that had the alimentary relationship with lj?

this anecdote about the golden pheasant sounds unlikely

everything else about franz ferdinand stresses the amount of avi- and indeed other fauna that he killed during maniacal hunting trips, he sounds like the sort who would enjoy watching a pheasant being killed by dachshunds more than anything else

Attempts were made to rebrand the breed, with the American Kennel Club officially renaming it the ‘badger dog’(a literal translation from the German), with others giving it the moniker ‘liberty pup’.

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As Cher Ami tried to fly back home, the Germans saw her rising out of the brush and opened fire. For several moments, Cher Ami flew with bullets zipping through the air all around her.[3] Cher Ami was eventually shot down but managed to take flight again. She arrived back at her loft at division headquarters 25 miles to the rear in just 25 minutes, helping to save the lives of the 194 survivors. In this last mission, Cher Ami delivered the message despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood and with a leg hanging only by a tendon.

Cher Ami became the hero of the 77th Infantry Division. Army medics worked long and hard to save her life. They were unable to save her leg, so they carved a small wooden one for her. When she recovered enough to travel, the now one-legged bird was put on a boat to the United States, with General John J. Pershing personally seeing Cher Ami off as she departed France.

Awards

Upon return to the United States, Cher Ami became the mascot of the Department of Service[verification needed]. The pigeon was awarded the Croix de Guerre Medal with a palm Oak Leaf Cluster for her heroic service in delivering 12 important messages in Verdun. She died at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, on June 13, 1919 from the wounds she received in battle and was later inducted into the Racing Pigeon Hall of Fame in 1931. She also received a gold medal from the Organized Bodies of American Racing Pigeon Fanciers in recognition of her extraordinary service during World War I.[4]

amazing

an avian is trying to eat berres from the laurel near the window

its lack of co-ordination and dexterity is quite striing

ive never seen an avian before that looks like it might be at risk of falling to its death, but this one might well do so, despite its apparent capacity for flight

can you narrow it down to a family

spoken like a true Cantabrigian

there is surely only one type of common or garden british avian that shows such limited motor skills, lj

are you saying it was barely athwart the vine

the very same

athwart while also being approximately 40 degrees below horizontal, as if it had heard about low hanging fruit but was unaware that its advantages are absent when that fruit is 10ft in the air

& yet the rousing tale of its kindred Friend puts the columbid family in a whole other light

so foul-smelling and bitter-tasting that the New Guineans nicknamed it the “rubbish bird.

Rubbish Bird

Tim Webb Tim Webb 17 Feb 2011 12:47 PM Comments 0 Likes

Slaty backed gull pictured at Rainham Marsh nature reserve, image courtesy of Andy Lawson

If, like me, you have difficulty telling the difference between a black headed gull and a kittiwake, you'll probably not be excited by the slaty backed gull that's returned to our Rainham Marsh reserve in east London for a second visit.

This gull looks like any other to the untrained eye, but the thousands of fans that have descended on Rainham will no doubt beg to differ. Like those who queued and paid a fiver to get in to Steve Akers' house in Chipping Norton to see a turtle dove (albeit an Oriental one), their motivations are different from mine. Their love of birds has led to many papers and radio commentators ridiculing them. How we all love an easy target.

The-Crow:
the chances of a good looking bird in Chipping Norton have always been slim,

but this bird looks like a pidgeon with a racing blue paint job

searches for an empty blue aerosol continue

Rainham area Rilke

tick

yes

https://twitter.com/beamish13/status/311471697620504576

Big Bird.

Late again, us Queenslanders - what are ya gunna do?
St Kilda - warm, dry and hard, Hamill, Nic and the Train could not have it any better. I worry about where Lions goals are going to come from, go the young boys. What's this "old" Lions shit, 11 of the list are under 20!!! Footy makes the big time 4 Triple M are broadcasting all the Lions games this year with Lynch and the Fly in the box. Sell out and live on TV, Sweet

Carlton - like and admire North but the Blues have some momentum and this should see them through

Port Adelaide - I can't believe Freo are favourites with the bookies, this is the team that has won the most games over the past 4 years, have not lost at Subi against Freo, Port all the way.

Melbourne - Emotion yes, but once the game starts its about the here and now, D's too strong

Sydney - Swannies have the edge in talent in every position except the ruck.

West Coast - Just, I think, not to sure about the Crows at this stage and the Eagles on-ball players have now got to be consistant week to week, this is a good place to start.

Geelong - too much talent although I think this will be a close one

Collingwood - but you've got to like what the dogs have tried to do in the off season and with their new coach in charge will try and play tight footy, keeping the scores low, no more kick 130+ points and losing for the dawgs.

Enjoy your looooong weekend everybody, I'm off to Byron Bay after the game tonight - love is a mother-in-law who lives in Byron!!!!

Thanks Chriso - bloody thing just won't accept me at all.

Regards
Big Bird

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trampling all over that sweet avian whimsy

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/kingfisher-discovered-and-killed-natural-history-museum-339525

quite the most extinguished of riparian avianry

or just a shy bird

GFOTY ‏@GFOTY 20 Mar 2013

destined 2 b a norf london tennis or kids footy coach's bird. :-/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QOhsPgexGk

“Let’s go and see what’s happening with the sparrow. We have to wait a while anyway.”
We went. Out the door, in the bushes, we encountered the fa- miliar darkness, the familiar smell, we approached the familiar place, but our gaze beat in vain against the blackness, or rather against a multitude of various blacknesses effacing everything— there were black caverns caving in, next to other holes, spheres, layers, poisoned by semi-existence, and this flowed together into a kind of concoction that had a restraining, opposing effect. I had a flashlight, but I wasn’t free to use it. The sparrow had to be ahead of us, by two paces, we knew where, but we couldn’t reach it with our gaze that was being devoured by something negating it, by darkness. Finally . . . the bird loomed as if it were the center of a configuration, a thickening no bigger than a pear . . .

https://twitter.com/colebunzel/status/664482511343472640

lol

In 1964 Doda made international news, first by dancing topless at the city's Condor Club, then by enhancing her bust from size 34 to 44 through silicone injections. Her breasts became known as Doda's "twin 44s" and "the new Twin Peaks of San Francisco."[5]

"What used to bother me was when I was a kid, people used to take things from me. I used to wear glasses and, I don't believe the guy did this..He took the milk, you always had milk when you was a kid. He took the milk and he took my glasses..and I wanted to get my glasses, but I was scared to fight the guy for some reason..because he talked tough. But something that he did was so cruel. I was devastated, but he took my glasses, fold them up. There was a big truck there; I think it was a lunch truck. He took the gas tank, opened [it] up, and put my glasses in the gas! Dropped it where you put the gas, turned it back, and there was no way I could ever get my glasses. And at that time I couldn't believe someone could be that cruel to do that."

"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died. I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand - he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard."

lj have you seen this?

http://www.poachedmovie.com

that looks interesting

virunga with fewer guns amirite

One resident took photographs and contacted cemetery managers after witnessing a seagull destroying a soft toy at the graveyard.

“A seagull was standing on the grave and it picked up a brown soft toy, carried it several feet away and attacked it in what seemed to be an aggressive attack,” she said.

“It was holding the toy down with its foot and tearing the stuffing out of it.”

Paignton Cemetery manager Sarah McKerrell added: “Unfortunately, birds are a constant source of problems.”

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/seagulls-vandalising-graves-dead-babies-Devon/story-27709956-detail/story.html

attacked it in what seemed to be an aggressive attack