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Bird Poop Thread 1: About Bird Poop !

I spent the afternoon with a team of folks banding shorebirds yesterday. Super fun afternoon.

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Here is a tagged ruddy turnstone. It's a bit blurry, but I took this photo with my iPhone through my spotting scope.
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Bird Thread 1: About Birds !

Opened my garage door today and a bird flew in and into a window and died. Didn't even seem to hit that hard. I thought it was stunned and would wake up but it died. Was kind of sad. Did some chest compressions to no avail. Poor fella.
 
RubbinsRacin said:
Opened my garage door today and a bird flew in and into a window and died. Didn't even seem to hit that hard. I thought it was stunned and would wake up but it died. Was kind of sad. Did some chest compressions to no avail. Poor fella.
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RubbinsRacin said:
Opened my garage door today and a bird flew in and into a window and died. Didn't even seem to hit that hard. I thought it was stunned and would wake up but it died. Was kind of sad. Did some chest compressions to no avail. Poor fella.
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Birds have hollow bones (it's a weigh reduction thing to make flying easier) and can pretty easily crack their skulls or break their necks. Bird bone evolution did not anticipate glass windows.
 
Sorry for the giant zapruder like photo. It flew away before I could get closer. I am guessing this is some sort of woodpecker.

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Sorry for the giant zapruder like photo. It flew away before I could get closer. I am guessing this is some sort of woodpecker.

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I don't think that is a woodpecker. Where are you located (approximately) and what is the date of the photo, geography and season can be big clues...That looks a bit like a Smith's longspur, but the colors are't quite right. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Smiths_Longspur/id
 
one time i found an awesome but dead kingfisher with a small fish speared on his beak; i could only think he smashed his head into the nearby electric pole b/c it seemed to have just happened. i stuck it in our freezer but no taxidermist would do it for me because they're endangered or something

incidentally, we also had a red-bellied woodpecker also in the freezer that had flown into a large picture window. no one would stuff that one either! had to get rid of them both, sadly
 
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ImTheCaptain said:
one time i found an awesome but dead kingfisher with a small fish speared on his beak; i could only think he smashed his head into the nearby electric pole b/c it seemed to have just happened. i stuck it in our freezer but no taxidermist would do it for me because they're endangered or something

incidentally, we also had a red-bellied woodpecker also in the freezer that had flown into a large picture window. no one would stuff that one either! had to get rid of them both, sadly
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You could easily have done your own study skin. youtube that ish next time.
 
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