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.
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 …
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
That’s because at some point in your life you realise that birds are just tiny dinosaurs.
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.
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!
Bro that shit is insanely good.
I got so many good pictures thank to that app
Pretty sure this thread exists because of Merlin. Half the people I know seem to be on it
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:
Ah yes, the brownringed squarker.
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.
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!
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.
“Look Raymond, a yellow crested warbler”
No you’re too excited the warbler’s a common bird.
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.
Sorry Jesse Case, I think I must have been born old. I’ve always noticed birds, if I see or hear a species I can’t recognise, especially if near where I live, I must id it to restore my inner peace. I’m yet to see this change as I age
Acquiring birds.
He has actually rambled about birds, and it’s actually pretty funny. He got off a tangent about a neighbor’s peacocks in his past, then talks about how owls would take their heads off in a swoop. “But I digress…”
Unfortunately I don’t quite remember the Knowledge Fight episode it’s in, so I can’t direct you to it. What I recall is he was talking about something completely different and god sidetracked.
Quack
Ahh, the majestic space duck.
Go, unreasonably buff bird!
We’re still in the age of dinosaurs.
Some even taste good.
I got into birding this spring as a hobby, thinking to myself “it’s free, you just need to use your eyes and ears”, withing a month I bought a $350 pair of binoculars. I’ve managed to fight off the temptation of a decent camera so far, thankfully. I found a great park at the tail end of spring migration about 10 minutes from my apartment, and the dawn chorus was almost sensory overload, the was so many different species singing and calling. I’m looking forward to what new birds I’ll see during this fall migration and especially next spring migration.
I’m incapable of picking a cheap hobby. But this might be the healthiest. Gets you out and about, and birders are so nice and friendly. Even started planning holidays around it.
The latest gen mirrorless cameras are great for birding. Light enough to be handholdable, and subject detection is great.
