• trashcan
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      2 years ago

      I still think it’s beautiful. Just listen to songs they’ve made in pursuit of getting some.

    • Sagrotan
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      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 …

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      Can’t wait for this exact webcomic to be made by a bird that’s seen how we act on TikTok

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    582 years ago

    Relatable. Birds are suddenly really interesting in your 30s.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

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    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

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    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.

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    I hated birds, especially “laser birds” (house wrens), but yeah they’re interesting now. I also live in a great place to bird watch

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    My 63yo mom likes to memorize birds names in the same way 90s kids did with pokemons. I think she does it since she was a child. When we’re taking a walk together she points to the birds and say their names. And I learn to much with her, I love when she does it!

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      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.

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      42 years ago

      By Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Interesting! Downloading this.

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        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!

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    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