#bird rant

[procelllaria]

the day storm petrels r mentioned in a sparkbird song is the day i will rest peacefully. maybe they have been but i havent been keeping up a lot i just found out storm petrels are STINKY!!

heres some other fun facts i really like about them old scottish sailors would use them as candles!! they would take the bird and stuff a wick into it , as they were easier to find then wax! their oily bodies were perfect for candles. they hunt by pitter-patering ontop the water, eating small crustaceans and fish and plankton--- because of this pattern, they are called st peters bird as it looks like their walking on water!! their apart of tubenose birds, which places them with ablatrosses! their also relatives to the procellariformes family, which is where i got my usename from they are often called water witches!! this is because some tales will link it to witches that bring storms, and STORM petrels are often seen.. well, around storms! the main reason their seen during this time is because they will look for any shelter to hide from storms, and that will include sailors boats. this also made them seen as a bad omen-- kind of like the black cats of the sea, as i like to call them. i mean, associated with witches and seen as bad luck? sounds pretty similar. the least storm petrel is also the smallest seabird in the world, also slightly smaller than a finch, but larger than a bee hummingbird- about double the size. despite being so small, they can live up to 30 years! north american river otters will hunt them!! i thought that was pretty interesting they have really weak legs!! stupid bird forgot leg day they are called mother careys chickens by sailors!! mother carey, also known as the virgin mary!! lots of divine and religious names ... which is why they interest me so much - im not religious fyi this also means u could say storm petrel butt instead of chicken butt. i have done this before. i know im cringe shutt uppp. okthats all.

[justarandombirb]

YES THIS IS FIRST BUT THIS WAS WRITTEN LAST. EVERYONE NEEDS TO RE-WATCH IT. I UNDERSTAND IF SOME HATED IT TO THE POINT THEY NEVER WANT TO TOUCH IT AGAIN. BUT YOU ALWAYS SEE MORE AND LEARN MORE ON YOUR SECOND WATCH!!!

This is the proper post-

GOD I DONT KNOW HOW TO FEEL?!? I REALLY DONT?!?!

As someone who is rather newer to the fandom than many others. I haven't been waiting as long for this. BUT LIKE.... GRAAAA I LIKED IT?!?!?

BUT ALSO I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST OKAY!??!

I just feel so so robbed out of an entire season. I 100% feel that if we got a whole season everything would've been nicely spread out.

Okay spoilers under cut now-

ILL GET TO THOSE OLD MEN BUT FIRST

I really wanted to see more of Jesus! I'll be honest and say I'm not sure what I would've wanted him to be involved with, but more than just one interaction with Crowley and Aziraphale. I just feel like he was underused. And again, he could've had more! But no full season.

Now maybe. Maybe it's just me, or all of us, but I think I wanted another season 1. I wanted a missing person (Jesus) and Aziraphale and Crowley searching for him. But we are long past season 1. It would just be wrong for them to go back to that and I know that. I still very much appreciate what we got. I also did LOVE that little cameo with Adam and him, very cute.

Idk im still trying to find my thoughts. I def need a rewatch.

Okay. Now. How do I feel about the end ending. I feel that it was right. And what WE want, isn't always right. I did not want them to become humans. I really didn't! I do find is very sad that OUR original Aziraphale and Crowley are gone. And everything they went through. But if we look at it from a character motivation point. They chose to sacrifice everything for the humans. They got so tired of otherworldly influences, including themselves. That they chose to give everything freedom. Now would they in a way sacrifice themselves to do this? It's hard to say cause those idiots love eachother so much. But maybe its because they both reached an understanding, it was a decision they BOTH MADE. I don't knooooowwww ughhhhh I don't knowwwww....

I have horrid memory I have to rewatch it.

[justarandombirb]

I reaaaallllyyy hope the new Ghostbusters cartoon coming to Netflix will explore things that they can't really in the movies. Like you can't have a whole movie based on one characters emotions or feelings on something because it's not big enough to make a whole movie on.

But they can 100% have episodes telling us more about these characters, things they are overshadowed by the main plot in the movies.

I would looooveeeee to see perhaps, how Trevor is impacted by Phoebe sort of being the "main character" so to speak, in all the films I feel like the main focus has been her, and hey I'm not complaining I love her character. But it seems like her problems are the most in focus. Now also, her problems seem to be her summer romance causing the almost apocalypse and being benched. But it would be nice to see more of Trevor or even both of them! I love me a good sibling dynamic and I wanna see more of them being goofy and hating eachother like siblings do!

If the main focus is the spenglers and the "side characters" are people like the og's, Podcast, Lucky, and the lab people, then there's opportunities to sometimes take a break from the main characters and show more in the life of the others! Perhaps a conflict with Podcasts parents finding out he isn't at space camp! Perhaps Luckys dad wants her to go to an actual college and have a "proper future" so perhaps they either team up or by themselves figure out how to prove to their parents that being involved with the Ghostbusters is good and they want to do it!

I ALSO WANT TO SEE MORE GHOST DESIGNS PLEASE THEY ARE SO COOL I LOVE THE ONES FROM THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS!!!!

[pennzooky]

Do you think one day the birds might accept me as one of their own? Oh how I wish to stretch out my hand and have a bird land on it. To whistle back and forth at each other, before saying goodbye and departing to our different worlds. Will I ever know such an experience?

[bewildred-grimsley]

I don't understand why folks are still so hung up on dragons when BIRDS exist. I mean, for cripes sake, the only things birds CAN'T do is breathe fire, and are we actually sure they can't? Galapagos finches drink blood! Grebes have little pouches on their wings for carrying their babies. Albatross can sleep while flying. Innumerable types of bird build intricate nests that can withstand hurricanes and crushing forces and have built-in trap doors to confuse snakes. Corvids and parrots are smarter than your honor roll student. The common rock dove, Basic Bitch Pigeon to you, feeds its young on milk. Pigeon Milk. The bellbird is as loud as a rock concert. The lyrebird can imitate any sound it hears. And don't even get me started on the ridiculous dating techniques of the Birds of Paradise.

Who needs mythical beasts? I just wish they were big enough to ride.

[thiings-with-wings]

whats your favorite bird? :0

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Long post ahead (TLDR kea are my favorite birds)

Honestly I’d have to say the Kea! Not only is it the only alpine parrot in the world, it is also the most intelligent parrots and one of the most intelligent birds in the world, tying with ravens!

Yet they use their intelligence to be just so fucking silly. They have the nickname “clowns of the mountains” (or something similar if I didn’t get it 100% right) They aren’t scared of people most of the time and will mess with them given the chance, a flock of kea is even called a circus (or a curiosity but circus is better)..

They are also are some of the only parrots known to eat meat as well!

They look like this

[yellow-hatco]

I did it. I did the most insane thing a city dweller can do. I put on my boots, fought through tall prairie weeds and fire ants to get this photo of a weaver bird's nest

Hell would I know what weaver bird's nest this belongs to. A baya weaver, possibly, since it's the top spotted weaver bird (and literally the only species spotted) in my town. The nests look similar enough. Here's a low quality picture of the nest up close before I had to retreat from the hoard of kamikaze fire ants dropping from the skies above, and here's a better picture from iNaturalist for comparison.

2 holes for what reason? An entry way and the nest chamber, I think! Apparently, this nest I found is half built. Males build it halfway and if the females like it the male will keep building until it looks like this. A shell shape spiral with a bulbous, spacious room for chicks. They'd have to keep building as the chicks grow though.

Still, I can't wrap my head around how tiny these birds can get. They're standing on grass reeds. REEDS. I guess that's expected of them in hindsight. All this while I thought the only way to see/ find birds was to look up into tree canopies but I guess like grass moths, you get grass birds as well. Tiny, tiny master architecture grass birds.

Of course, I never saw them. I only skimmed the outskirts of the prairie because I'm not planning to meet snakes yet. But I suppose it is quite a cool find. Maybe I'll update if the baya weaver does find a mate in July.

[mmmmmmmmicrowave]

Right weird flex but I’ve been following the recovery of the Kakapos ever since I was in like… 2nd grade. We had a book in the school library about them and I kept reading it over and over since I was obsessed with animals at the time. I occasionally just search them up now and see how they’re coming along, and it’s so great to see those big modern dodos are somehow still surviving. I feel like they’re probably part of the reason I love Potoos and birds in general. They’re just the best creatures. I have always been a huge animal nerd, from reading up on old veterinary practices to watching documentaries about the birds of paradise, and birds will simply always be my favorite. My favorite birds have to be Potoos, kakapos, chickens, geese, and doves (pigeons especially so).

Birds are sooo so great <3