I still think it’s beautiful. Just listen to songs they’ve made in pursuit of getting some.
Listen to the songs people have made with the same agenda. Pretty good too.
I feel like I’ve seen this exact joke in several different web comics
I am fairly sure of that as well.
That’s the state of modern webcomics. Copy a joke you saw in another webcomic, or complain about something personal.
Imagine you walk through a wood and record the sounds, play it back later at 300 times slower, hearing trees cumming and ejaculating over you while you were standing there… You’ll never walk through the woods again …
That must be why the entwives left
Can’t wait for this exact webcomic to be made by a bird that’s seen how we act on TikTok
That’s because at some point in your life you realise that birds are just tiny dinosaurs.
Relatable. Birds are suddenly really interesting in your 30s.
I’m in my sixties and still don’t care about birds. Conversely, I’ve started to really enjoy killing rats though
Lol the fuck is wrong with you
They probably went crazy from an intense rat infestation. That’s probably hard.
Fuckers were biting through our kitchen screens and raiding our avocados
Well, that’s a hobby. Can’t blame you for that.
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I love how birds are named. Look Debbie, it’s a Coloredpart Sounditmakes.
Oddly enough, other than the “part” thing, the Grey go-away-bird follows that formula. Not so much with the sad flycatcher (who’ll be alright, he just needs to process it all), the little bustard or the drab seedeater , who was clearly named by a dude who hates birds 😂
“Drab Seedeater” really was named by an ornithologist who was just god damned done that day, huh?
Absolutely 😂
🤣🤣🤣
Today I totally realized this. Thank you
My favorite of this pattern has to be the ruby throated hummingbird.
Reminds me of this:
I love my Tits
Black cap,blue,long tailed tits,great tits I love em
Ah yes, the brownringed squarker.
I recently download an app that uses AI to identify bird calls.
Merlin Bird ID
Merlin is amazing. I heard birds outside my new apartment and thought of them as nice background noise. Within days of installing Merlin, I could tell sparrows, cardinals and robins apart without seeing them. Whenever I heard a new bird, I’d grab my phone and open Merlin.
One day it sounded like a robin and a cardinal were having and argument while both simultaneously having a stroke. Merlin figured out it was a catbird, a relative of the mockingbird that learns the songs of other birds then strings pieces of them together in a disorganized song to impress the ladies. Basically, the male catbird who can sing the weirdest songs using the most species signals that he has “been around” for enough seasons to learn all those songs and therefore must have good genes the females want to pass on. It’s mind blowing to learn all this about things that are going on outside your window.
I’ve been wanting to give this a try. It uses the same AI as Merlin but runs on a raspberryPI.
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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Damn and I use PlantNet to ID plants and trees. We really are living in the future…
Inaturalist is my goto
By Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Interesting! Downloading this.
It’s pretty great, there’s also Cornell’s companion citizen science app called eBird that you can use to count birds around you which is useful to ornithologists to track bird population density and migration patterns!
Pretty sure this thread exists because of Merlin. Half the people I know seem to be on it
Bro that shit is insanely good.
I got so many good pictures thank to that app
Very relatable. I started leaving food for some local magpies about a year ago, and now they wake me up every morning at 6.
I once had a problem when suddenly some tits arrived and started stealing all the food. A huge magpie would take like one hazelnut and be on its way, while these small fuckers would eat like pigs, and then hide what was left. They’d take the nuts and shove them somewhere between the flowers on my balcony. Tough the magpies too have often burried nuts in the soil below the flowers, only to dig them out again.
And it was so cool to watch some sparrow coming and going a dozen times to pull out some weeds that have been growing (I left the pots with the flowers outside over winter, the flowers died and weeds started to grow), and then carry them to a hole in a wall where a brick is missing which presumably is the nest.
But it was so so cool when I got woken up a few days in succession to a silhouette of a majestic crow standing on my balcony (my bed looks directly through the balcony window facing north-east). Crows are so cool, and magpies are really beatutiful, though extremely skittish.
One thing I do miss about Reddit is r/crowbro where people who feed crows post pictures of the gifts crows leave for them. It was one bright spot in the sea of shit that is Reddit. Birds are utterly fascinating.
Be the change and start the community. I’d join
Ok I’ll figure out how.
It’s actually what motivated me to start hahaha. I wanted a gift from my corvid friends, but my corvid friends run the hell away if they even catch a glimpse of me in the corner of the room through a window. I guess because it’s a small balcony instead of a large, open and safe space. Even though I gave up on the idea and now feed them for no other reason than to feed them, I wish they would at least be chill with my existence. I’m fairly certain they think nuts grow out of flower pots.
But damn they look cool.
I love it!
Apparently the trick to crow gifts is to try to get them to see you dropping the food? Like even at a distance.
That’s cool.
I have these three ravens who like to hang out in my backyard every morning and walk around looking for stuff. They’re pretty chill and don’t give me too hard if a time. I think they like the compost pile with bugs, and we leave some water out for them.
But holy shit when they throw a house party and on Saturday afternoon you realize you’ve got a dozen crows on your roof making a racket, does it ever get noisy!
So Lemmy believes in birds?
I can’t believe they fell for it. Birds are not real.
Birds aren’t real.
I know it’s the entire point, and “lol u mad,” etc., but boy do I hate this meme.
What can I say? I am a creature of the interwebs. BTW, I saw someone wearing this on a T shirt recently.
I don’t begrudge anybody taking weird stances for the troll of it… But i think back to how the flat earth movement started out the same way. Now it’s populated with a bunch of psychos killing themselves in homemade rockets, talking about how nasa is a conspiracy…
“The hole in the soul.” Plenty of people have a need to escape reality. Some people look to drugs or alcohol or sex or gambling. Others find their happiness in a belief that makes them smarter and braver than anyone else.
Yeah, exactly. This is why I get annoyed when people say it’s “harmless fun” when talking about homeopathy, or astrology or whatever. All pseudoscience is dangerous to society for the exact reason you just laid out. It promotes magical thinking over critical thinking, and next thing you know, you’ve got people buying 100% into shit that has been continuously disproven over and over for hundreds of years.
Every adult human should be required to read, A Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. He does a much better job than I ever could at explaining why this is an issue.
The “Invisible Dragon in my Garage” is one of my favorite essays in the book, and played a huge role in influencing how I went about questioning, and ultimately leaving, the faith I was raised in. You can find the entirety of that essay if you search his name and the title of the essay. It’s not very long, but boy did he have a way of putting things into words that could just make things click.
Ooh, I haven’t read that book in like 20 years, I should dust it off again.
what kind of mad being puts tweets on a tshirt
I only report, I don’t judge
Wait till the “shoes fell off” meme hits lemmy
Do they know it though?
They’re all like “humans aren’t a real thing anyway”…
You can rest assured that they’ve been watching you for your entire life.
The neighbours hand raised this abandoned baby starling a few years ago, so it had decided everyone in the neighbourhood was his best friend too, and used to visit me, sit on top of my head and sing, demand bugs and berries, and tease our dog. It got so I could pick its voice out in the tree, and would come and sit on the kitchen window and yell at us to come outside.
Hello fellow big featherless birds!
Sometimes when you look at pigeons they look back
How dare they! I gave grain to their fucking mothers!
I saw a white one yesterday.
Don’t stare at their beady little eyes
No shit. This happened to me this year. A bird crossed my path while I was running and I had to double take because it was so cool looking. Now I look forward because I see him pretty often now. Ever since I check birds out all the time now
Birder fact: this is called your spark bird.
My spark bird was an invasive, European starling. I love their calls. Followed closely by catbirds. MIAAA!
“Look Raymond, a yellow created warbler”
No you’re too excited the warbler’s a common bird.
It may be common, but it’s still a bird
My cousin at 31 years old said this weekend, “I know I’m getting old because I was sitting on a swing at a friends and thought to myself ‘This would be a great spot to watch birds from’.”
My wife got me birds of Europe last year because I once mentioned it’s a neat book (my parents have it). Next thing I know I buy some binoculars for birdwatching and started tracking the birds that visit my garden. It’s not a spectacular list but I am proud of it because I used the book to identify the birds and got it confirmed with birdnet. The list: house sparrow, blackbird, goldfinch, swift, common house martin, common linnet, greenfinch and blue tits. Edit: and wood doves
I love this list! OP, go out hiking in the spring and see some more. It’s incredible to experience.
My grandma got me into birding when I was a young child. My friends always text me pictures of birds like it’s a quiz. Maybe this means they’ll start to catch up.
