The Birds

[ole dole doff]

as i was browsing through my deposit of YT silly favorites to post in another thread, i found something which is more suitable to share here.
Cockatoos Become Drummers to Pick Up Chicks
https://youtu.be/nmk2CYbz9To

[sally]

o god, i've posted this before but it still cracks me up

his mate's face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQuDyuQFKE

[ole dole doff]

another treasure from my silly deposit.
not really a bird.
a dude pretending to be a peacock.

https://youtu.be/d_yYC5r8xMI

[greennui]

Looked for non-film videos among old youtube favourites and found this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0Cm ... =emb_title

A recording of the last remaining Kauai 'O'o bird's mating call - Reaching out to a female that would never come. It died in 1987.

[ole dole doff]

https://youtu.be/Fc_-icFHwQo

[sally]

A recording of the last remaining Kauai 'O'o bird's mating call - Reaching out to a female that would never come. It died in 1987.

[Silga]

Cockatoos Become Drummers to Pick Up Chicks

I watched an entire documentary about the nature of Australia last week that feature these Cockatoos drumming with small branches. It's called Magical Land of Oz.

[Silga]

[ole dole doff]

bookmarked. thx!

[ole dole doff]

raven's nest (in South Bohemian city of České Budějovice) — LIVE streaming!
nothing going on there at the moment — past midnight here, raven(s) sleep.
https://havrani.rabenstejnska.cz/

[rischka]

they're awake! is that a condominium? i see like 8 of them there

[ole dole doff]

yea, these ravens seem like a bunch of communists who occupy a collective nest.

[ole dole doff]

btw. in the recent past i watched an anthology (tetralogy) of Bohemian experimental films called in sum KINDLING (2019).
1/ SVÍDNA (Martin Klusák)
2/ THE RHYTHM OF MY CITY (Jan Rybář)
3/ THE LAND OF THE RAVEN FROM THE ARK (Květa Přibylová)
4/ HABITAT (Marek Matvija)

Third part, THE LAND OF THE RAVEN FROM THE ARK, is about bunch of ravens who made nests near a cemetery.
The whole film is about a bunch of locals (humans) who complain (even swear) at ravens because they shamelessly shit on the graves of their ancestors.
So, i expect the moment will come in this LIVE streaming when angry locals (humans) will start throwing (from below) their shoes (or similar items) at ravens.

THE LAND OF THE RAVEN FROM THE ARK (trailer)
https://vimeo.com/400985780

[ole dole doff]

speaking about animal feces...
when i attended in 2018 Jihlava IDFF, i watched there Lithuanian doc called ACID FOREST aka RŪGŠTUS MIŠKAS (Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, 2018).
seems like, cormorants are the real grand scale shit spreaders (not ravens, or pigeons).
https://letterboxd.com/film/acid-forest/

Can you imagine a tourist attraction where people come to see a dead forest? Where they are not only observers, but also the ones being observed and heard by the black birds? There used to be an ancient pine forest, but then several cormorants landed there. Now there are thousands of the birds and they kill the pine trees by…shitting. The human observations and responses to this environment are as multi-layered and bizarre as the history of the forest itself.

https://youtu.be/izQO5AsL8HE

[ole dole doff]

and to make this entreé into the world of "cinema & bird's poo" complete...
there is also a short film called PIGEONS AND ARCHITECTURE (Anne Linke, 2019).
but it is (unfortunately) far less interesting than THE LAND OF THE RAVEN FROM THE ARK or ACID FOREST.

https://v18.videonale.org/en/v18-ausste ... chitecture
And with an almost gloatingly smiling feeling, we suddenly perhaps rejoice at the way they have covered all the cold-repellent, barred, mute abstraction of these places with layers of their feces in such a way that Jackson Pollock's Drip Paintings involuntarily come to mind.

[ole dole doff]

btw. ravens (somehow) figured out that if they will move in the area where the date & time counter is placed on the screen they are able to turn the color of the numbers from black to white and vice versa.
so, now they are entertaining themselves (and the audience) with this interactive black & white game!
maybe they are sending some cryptic (coded) message??? ...-15-8005-11801-...

[rischka]

well spring is definitely springing here, i just saw my thrashers fucking in a bush. baby thrashers??????

[ole dole doff]

if anyone is into Bingo or Lotto and trusts ravens, then today's lucky numbers are 21 and 11. (spring postponed.)
https://havrani.rabenstejnska.cz/

[ole dole doff]

additional note to ravens above.
only now, i read the description of past days.
it says, yesterday the first egg was laid.
(fortunately, the forenoon snow already melted.)
and it says, till hatching the egg it takes about 18 days.
so, around April 3rd (if i count right) we can expect to see one more little lovely shitspreader.

[sally]

this is even sadder than last bird left.

https://twitter.com/geoffmanaugh/status ... 8651549696

[ole dole doff]

Joggers in Pilsen attacked by a buzzard. Quietly and without warning

Problems with attacking birds are reported by people in Pilsen. After a swan terrorizing canoeists on Radbuza river, another local phantom reports a return to the scene: a buzzard. For a change, he has a fondness for joggers at the outskirts of the city.

"A medium-sized predator attacks from behind, in a quiet flight and without warning. Then the claws most often bounce off the runner's head," described the raid Karel Makoň from the Pilsen animal rescue station.

"If you run without a cap and with headphones on, I think you'll make a somersault in the run. Interestingly, not everyone is attacked, he only chooses people of a certain type. It doesn't make a difference between a man or a woman, but all the attacked most likely have something in common," said Makoň.

Friendly teasing?

Like the aforementioned swan, the attacking buzzard is not something completely new, these birds began attacking people in the locality as early as 2018.

"We discussed this case with biologists, falconers, and fellow ornithologists, and we all came to the conclusion that it is a bird bred in captivity. He is fixed on humans and during the mating season, he tries to establish a partnership with them. At the same time, however, it may also be a matter of protecting the territory and expelling the intruder, in which case the bird mistakenly identifies himself as a human, or identifies a human as buzzard,” Makoň explained.

"Whatever is the reason behind the attacks, it is by no means a wild bird and his behavior is a consequence of the fact that he has been piped by a man on whom the buzzard became fixed from a young age," he added.

The bird does not harras the passers-by all the time, it only teases them during his period of courtship, mating, and nesting. "In sunny warm weather, attacks are more frequent, in bad weather, they do not repeat so often. We expect all of this to be over in two months. Just like last year and the year before," said Makoň.

It advises runners to wear a head covering, change the route or speed up significantly in the incriminated section. And to armor oneself with tolerance.

Hormone fuelled riots

The swan, who returned to the Radbuza river after two years of exile, is again chasing poor paddlers. On Thursday, for example, he attacked a young single-canoeist three times in a row.

"It almost looks like an animal riot, but in reality, it's just a game of hormones with the nesting season approaching," Makoň remarked. "In both cases, this is exceptional, completely non-standard behavior, most likely of the male birds," he added.

[rischka]

I've seen a pair of hooded orioles today and that's a first for this year they do a lot of chattering so maybe I can be alert enough to get a photo



not the best but it will do for now. they're always pointing like this, i don't know why

[rischka]

he drinks from the hummingbird feeder. altho it doesn't look like a comfortable fit



sorry about the blinds, if i stood up i'd scare him away!

[sally]

yay! feeder is the best purchase ever!

[FLABREZU]

here is a fun video of me AND a hummingbird https://www.instagram.com/p/B7UTukRAGhN/

[sally]

oh wow in the snow as well!

[rischka]

hummies in canada? what kind is it?

a friend's mom found a hummie in the grill of her truck after driving. it was unconscious but woke up after a bit and flew off. had some luck with my orioles today. gorgeous day

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1378 ... 55488?s=20

[greennui]

Lots of blackbirds near my new place, love those lil guys.

Also seen some mute swans, coots, grey herons, canada geese, flycatchers...

[sally]

i wondered if you were settling in ok!

these little fellas have all appeared near me, not as bright as orioles but those rear-ends never stop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0imMXvMYG1s

[FLABREZU]

hummies in canada? what kind is it?

a friend's mom found a hummie in the grill of her truck after driving. it was unconscious but woke up after a bit and flew off. had some luck with my orioles today. gorgeous day

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1378 ... 55488?s=20

The OFFICIAL bird of Vancouver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_hummingbird