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Bird Poop Thread 1: About Bird Poop !

El Chupacabra said:
I once saw a mama rabbit fight off a hawk to protect her baby rabbits aka bunnies. Or shit, was it an owl that the mama rabbit fought off. I'll have to ask my friend who has done much fewer drugs. Your dog can do it, Townie!
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i'll punch that bird i've had a real bad relationship with birds of prey ever since medieval times when i stood up and cheered when they let the falcon loose and the guy yelled at me and told me i could have been attacked
 
I just remember we were both like, shit, that baby rabbit's gonna get eat. And then the mama rabbit was lurking at the edge of the clearing, while the baby bunnies were hopping along behind her, and something (owl/hawk, probs hawk now that I think about it, but not 100%) came swooping down to get the bunny and the mama rabbit went crazy and fought it off and survived. We were in awe. It was pretty amazing watching nature. And birds. Or owl.

There was an evil killer swooping mockingbird (? I think? birdman?) on campus and in town a few years ago that would dive bomb and attack one's scalp. He/she almost got me one time and scratched the top of my head.
 
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TownieDeac said:
i'll punch that bird i've had a real bad relationship with birds of prey ever since medieval times when i stood up and cheered when they let the falcon loose and the guy yelled at me and told me i could have been attacked
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Cooper's hawks eat mostly other birds but will some times eat small mammals, grey squirrels are probably the biggest thing it would go after. Your 45 lbs pup is fine.
 
Does birdwatching incorporate knowing/recognizing bird song, or is that a different thing altogether?

There is a birdwatching class/section of a class here, so sometimes you will stroll into campus and see groups of three or four just looking up at trees or in the sky, looking very confused, with pencil and paper.
 
I like the Oregon Bird Song with the naked man on the pole.

But I'm going to give this one a shot.
 
El Chupacabra said:
Does birdwatching incorporate knowing/recognizing bird song, or is that a different thing altogether?

There is a birdwatching class/section of a class here, so sometimes you will stroll into campus and see groups of three or four just looking up at trees or in the sky, looking very confused, with pencil and paper.
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Yes. In lots of environments, like dense forests, it's super hard to actually see birds, but you can still identify them from songs and calls. When I go birding sometimes I keep two lists, birds I saw and birds I heard. It is also an important way to monitor bird populations because when you are doing a transect to count birds or record species presence you don't have time to stop and get a visual on every bird so you rely on songs. Dave Anderson, the ornithology prof at Wake, said he was tone def and could never learn bird songs so he never made students learn calls and songs, but lots of classes will test on those things.
 
Cool. Birdwatching definitely seems neat. You and (potentially) juice are onto something here.
 
what is this beast obliterating a pigeon in DC?

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Gnarly. That is so metal.

 
birdman said:
Looks like a peregrine falcon. The fastest animal alive, maximum measured speed was 240 miles per hour.
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Peregrine falcons are known to be in several DC neighborhoods. Mostly where there are tall buildings and pigeons. They are also seen on the railroad bridge over the Potomac.
 
Deaconblue said:
Peregrine falcons are known to be in several DC neighborhoods. Mostly where there are tall buildings and pigeons. They are also seen on the railroad bridge over the Potomac.
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I saw one on the tower of Westminster Abbey in the center of London last summer. They naturally nest on cliffs and eat wild pigeons and seabirds so adapting to nesting on the ledges of tall buildings was a pretty easy jump.
 
I used to have a pet crow that lived in my basement. We trained it to land on our shoulders, and it would eat balls of Raw hamburger out of our hands. Am I a bad person Birdman?
 
mako1331 said:
I used to have a pet crow that lived in my basement. We trained it to land on our shoulders, and it would eat balls of Raw hamburger out of our hands. Am I a bad person Birdman?
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Not necessarily, where did you acquire the crow?
 
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