The Birds of Piip-Show

I can't stop watching Piip-Show, so I made a guide to the birds.

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Yesssssss

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Woodpigeon. He is the Hagrid of this coffee shop: he looks simply too big to be allowed. They are much, much larger than regular pigeons (rock doves). The first time I saw one of these guys in London I kinda freaked out.

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Chaffinch, male (the colorful one with the pink cheeks) and female (the plain one with the little brown hat). Never seen these guys before. He's so pretty! And that's not the lady in the middle shot, that's just a sparrow. But no one would blame you for confusing them.

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This woodpecker is very disappointed by the other patrons.

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What do YOU want?

(This is my favorite screenshot I've captured, by far.)

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Male (left) vs. female (right) Great Spotted Woodpeckers: similar except for the little red hat the guys wear.

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Why is there a flag on the bar today? Why, it's Norwegian Constitution Day!

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Hawfinch. A less-frequent visitor to the coffee shop (I've only spotted one once). They're shy birds with huge beaks, and even though they're quite common we don't know much about them because they're good at hiding. Wikipedia portrays them as aloof, unobtrusive mumblers who rarely descend from the branches.

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European Robin. The "gardener's friend", these birds will watch you work outside in hopes you'll dig up some tasty bugs for them. Also they have vision-based magnetoreception, which is basically a superpower.

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Nuthatch. These guys are little acrobats and seem to defy gravity: they don't care which way is up. If you spot a bird climbing a tree upside-down, it's probably a nuthatch.

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Blue Tit, with peanut. These guys pop in to grab something then fly right out again -- blink and you'll miss them (but there may be up to 44 million pairs of them living across Europe, so you're bound to spot one if you keep watching). The sexes are similar unless you have an ultraviolet light handy, so if you see one with a particularly bright yellow belly, it just means they've been eating lots of caterpillars.

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Hvem besøker fuglebrettet?

Alle fuglene kringkastes nå direkte på et brett. Se hvilke fugler som er stamgjester på fôringsplassen!

There is a bird guide in Norwegian on the Piip-Show website, but I can't read Norwegian and apparently neither can Google Translate. :-(

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Great Spotted Woodpecker, female. The males have a red patch on the back of their necks that the females lack. These birds are really pretty but move in a strange, jerky fashion. When they're perched on the barstools they  throw their heads back and look a bit like they're doing shots.

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Tree Sparrow. (Not to be confused with the American Tree Sparrow). These guys are really messy eaters and throw the seeds everywhere!

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Great Tit. They will eat basically anything. And they're clever:

In England, Great Tits learned to break the foil caps of milk bottles delivered at the doorstep of homes to obtain the cream at the top. This behaviour, first noted in 1921, spread rapidly in the next two decades.

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Greenfinch, female. The males are brighter. My bird book describes this species as "quarrelsome" -- apparently they enjoy threatening all the other birds.