don't know what this garbage is about but all current posters itt are established and valued posters
― Capybara (big rat) @ Sea World, San Diego, California, USA (nakhchivan), Friday, 1 January 2016 00:45 (eight years ago) link
have some respect please
― Capybara (big rat) @ Sea World, San Diego, California, USA (nakhchivan), Friday, 1 January 2016 00:46 (eight years ago) link
doing the costanza exit, feeling like in goldeneye on n64 when you trip an alarm and a million guards get all up in your ass
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 1 January 2016 00:46 (eight years ago) link
being in Altamont, do you have any insight into the Rolling Stones?
― sarahell, Friday, 1 January 2016 00:47 (eight years ago) link
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― Capybara (big rat) @ Sea World, San Diego, California, USA (nakhchivan), Friday, 1 January 2016 00:47 (eight years ago) link
Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 1 January 2016 01:20 (eight years ago) link
The stones helicoptered in/out to/from altamont afaik. It's motorcross/bmx/meth culture up here, pretty much
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 1 January 2016 01:22 (eight years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6413c81140ed4d80439c1b3eb771886c4ed37f80/0_0_3500_2099/master/3500.jpg?w=1920&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=36e1e69065f9b4e2076f54a963ac47e8
― Capybara (big rat) @ Sea World, San Diego, California, USA (nakhchivan), Saturday, 2 January 2016 00:20 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/naturecamhd/status/688085264036675585
― christmas capybara (nakhchivan), Saturday, 16 January 2016 01:59 (eight years ago) link
earlier this week my boss told us about the time he stole a hummingbird egg from london zoo
― watching yourself lay a prole (wins), Saturday, 16 January 2016 10:44 (eight years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Apotheosis.jpg
those morbid corvids!
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 4 February 2016 10:59 (eight years ago) link
not graving but dining
― Chikan wa akan de. Zettai akan de. (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 February 2016 11:04 (eight years ago) link
There it is
― broderik f (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 February 2016 11:54 (eight years ago) link
lol
― sarahell, Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: GORY IMAGES OF INJURED PIGEON
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3444471/Horrifying-pictures-capture-moment-seagull-DEVOURS-baby-pigeon-shock-city-centre-shoppers.html
― nakhchivan, Friday, 12 February 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
notice how the gull stands athwart the pigeon during the enjoyment of his food
― nakhchivan, Friday, 12 February 2016 19:27 (eight years ago) link
ilx has a lot of avian issues this weekXD
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 March 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
The Eurasian jay was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th century work Systema Naturae. He recognised its affinity with other corvids, naming it Corvus glandarius.[2]
― сверх (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
there is a pair of these living nearby; they are a common normcore avian, though i have seldom seen them so close. they tend to flit around hyperactively in the trees, not yet quite in leaf. they look raffish without being either lowering in the manner of higher corvids, or delinquent in the manner of magpies which they otherwise resemble. the differences with the latter are instructive; swole rather than hench, less agitated though probably more agile. their footwork for a comparatively large avian is extraorindary, they seem to float above the branches as if cushioned by miniature air max 90s. they resist anthropomorphization more than the other corvids. they do not seem to have any affective idiosyncracies; their colouration may be lurid but they are otherwise neutral, typified by a sort of motivic listlessness that allows them do very little in any purposive sense, while seldom settling athwart any particular branch for very long.
― сверх (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 23:02 (eight years ago) link
whichever smartarse decided 'garrulus' was a more appropriate genus name deserves a particularly crass tick
also welcome back, etc
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 23:22 (eight years ago) link
the bit about being cushioned by miniature air max 90s is the most on-point observation; they really do seem to flow about vegetation, rather than crash from branch to branch with the hyperbolic tail-dipping radge of a magpie. you get a lot of them near where i live.
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 23:25 (eight years ago) link
saw a rufous hummingbird while taking a piss in a bush on Vancouver's "beer island" the other day. exceptional avian to observe whilst micturating
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 23:30 (eight years ago) link
they don't make all that much noise, again especially compared to magpies and the noise they do make is less distinctive than that of most other corvids.
― сверх (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 23:31 (eight years ago) link
it's less insistent and noisy than most corvid cries, yes, but it can be quite copious. it's still a weird choice for 'garrulus'
had no idea hummingbirds went as far north as canada, truly the galapagos penguin of hummingbirds
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 23:45 (eight years ago) link
how do you rate these normcore avians:
http://i.imgur.com/AkIDZfD.jpg
― coffe growing vpon the skull of a sock (sarahell), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 07:30 (eight years ago) link
5, 9, 10
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 08:05 (eight years ago) link
I took pains to determine the flight of crook-taloned birds, marking which were of the right by nature, and which of the left, and what were their ways of living, each after his kind, and the enmities and affections that were between them, and how they consorted together.
― сверх (nakhchivan), Saturday, 23 April 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/onlyloveHH/status/723616680929275905
― сверх (nakhchivan), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
It is clear that Khan doesn’t think there is much merit in appearing close to Corbyn in any way, even now that he has won his election. But what will be interesting is how critical the new Mayor decides to be of his party leader. Labour moderates are hoping that at the very least he will be what one described as ‘another woodpecker at the tree’, chipping away at the party leadership with similar comments to the ones he made over the weekend about the importance of actually winning elections.
― nakhchivan, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/20/catalogue-doiseaux-review-pierre-laurent-aimard-aldeburgh-festival#img-2
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3649724/Hats-ladies-just-make-look-silly-Anna-Friel-hits-Royal-Ascot-pigeon-head-QUENTIN-LETTS-explains-isn-t-fan.html
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
took like 30 binocular-zoomed photos of what i assumed was an exotic falcon species in cyprus recently, turns out it was a common kestrel
― imago, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
kestrels are dope tho
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
Yup. One thing I'll miss about living in methil is that one of the old guys here keeps pigeons,which I enjoyed hanging out with.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
damn why wasn't i at that messiaen thing
yh obv it was still a beautiful bird posing magnificently before a lighthouse
― imago, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
i might post a photo
― imago, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Ho4moUB.jpg
― imago, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
dignified bird
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
immensely so
― imago, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
i saw a barred owl, during the day, on saturday. i had never seen an owl irl before in the wild.
im fostering a pomeranian right now and the owl looked at him in a way that caused me some panic.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 June 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link
on reflection it was possibly a barn owl
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 June 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
post pics of the pom, por favor!
― sarahell, Monday, 26 June 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv105/NAPOLEONROFL/dog/Screen%20Shot%202017-06-26%20at%2010.07.22%20AM.png
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
trying to work out which avians would be able to turn the aforepictured into lunch
― imago, Monday, 26 June 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
perhaps the very largest strigiforms
yeah he likely wouldn't have had much of a chance of eating him but he did stare at him quite intently. the dog didn't realize what was going on so i picked him up, the owl followed us for a short time - well we walked further along the trail and he flew from behind us to in front of us twice before deciding to stay perched on the branch and no bother with us anymore.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
adorable!
― sarahell, Monday, 26 June 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50180781
Russian scientists tracking migrating eagles ran out of money after some of the birds flew to Iran and Pakistan and their SMS transmitters drew huge data roaming charges.After learning of the team's dilemma, Russian mobile phone operator Megafon offered to cancel the debt and put the project on a special, cheaper tariff.The team had started crowdfunding on social media to pay off the bills.The birds left from southern Russia and Kazakhstan.The journey of one steppe eagle, called Min, was particularly expensive, as it flew to Iran from Kazakhstan.Min accumulated SMS messages to send during the summer in Kazakhstan, but it was out of range of the mobile network. Unexpectedly the eagle flew straight to Iran, where it sent the huge backlog of messages.The price per SMS in Kazakhstan was about 15 roubles (18p; 30 US cents), but each SMS from Iran cost 49 roubles. Min used up the entire tracking budget meant for all the eagles.
After learning of the team's dilemma, Russian mobile phone operator Megafon offered to cancel the debt and put the project on a special, cheaper tariff.
The team had started crowdfunding on social media to pay off the bills.
The birds left from southern Russia and Kazakhstan.
The journey of one steppe eagle, called Min, was particularly expensive, as it flew to Iran from Kazakhstan.
Min accumulated SMS messages to send during the summer in Kazakhstan, but it was out of range of the mobile network. Unexpectedly the eagle flew straight to Iran, where it sent the huge backlog of messages.
The price per SMS in Kazakhstan was about 15 roubles (18p; 30 US cents), but each SMS from Iran cost 49 roubles. Min used up the entire tracking budget meant for all the eagles.
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
looool
― imago, Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
they are getting louder during this time of quarantine
― sarahell, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link