#smart birds

[tanyaluca]

The Solitude of Ravens…

Tanya Luca

[mymangamemes]

Spoken like someone who definitely knows how carrier pigeons work

From Surviving as an Obsessive Servant by Pulse Picture, MU YU, and Lee2

[randominteresting]

Look how smart this bird is!

[melophile3]

Its 6 am rn and I haven't slept yet but i saw this video of a crow and a snowy owl so i had to doodle them

[reality-detective]

* * * News Interruption * * * (Unmute)

[multitraveler]

an army in the making

[ankewehner]

Australian Magpies Against GPS Trackers

A team of scientists tested a new type of harness for GPS trackers that could be removed without re-capturing the birds if the bird visited a feeding station that was fitted with a magnet.

The result was: Australian magpies don't like harnesses, and help each other get rid of them.

Paper: https://www.birdlife.org.au/afo/index.php/afo/article/view/2247

Key quote (bolding mine):

On the day of trapping, one individual was observed attempting to remove its own tracker but was then approached and aided by another juvenile (without a tracker or coloured leg-band) once again pecking the harness part of the tracker. The tracker remained but, within the next 10 minutes, an adult female (also without a tracker or leg-band) proceeded to approach and successfully pecked the harness at various points such that the tracker came off the fitted juvenile within c. 10 minutes. This first Magpie that had been tagged had its GPS device removed within 1 h. Concurrently, the removal of a second tracker from another Magpie by a different adult (without a tracker) was also occurring atop a powerline. After two Magpies fell from the line during the process of trying to remove the tag, they were seen to relocate and continue the removal in a nearby tree. This behaviour was captured on video until the birds left the area.

[be-nice-to-small-animals]

heres the full video of milo and dewey’s dumbassery. enjoy