Addendum; just now, relookin at that Skeletal Fossil, for the size of its head and that neck length, that motherfucker had to have had the thickest fuckin neck you ever saw. LOL!
That's all well & good, but beaks aren't built like the rest of the bird's commonly aerated bones. Beaks tend to be mostly solid compressed bones, layer coated with keratin or hard nail/claw material. While only having respiratory holes with air passages near the skull. If you look at this bird, it has a HUGE head for a bird, 2/3s of that head weight is beak. Plus if you look at those Cervical vertebrae, they're massive & spinal bones only develop like that when there's heavy muscle attachment.
I'm not a fan of people keeping songbirds in little cages to imprison their cuteness, but I'd love to have a pet seriema or a secretary bird running around the house. Or a wood stork.
So it's OK to imprison a bird away from flock, any hope of mate/family, and the whole outdoors, just because you want to? I'd love to hear the reasoning why this is bad for small songbirds and fine for a different size of 'cute' birds. I hope this exercise brings home the idea, "Just because you can, doesn't mean you Should." And I have birds, all unreleasable 'commercially bred' parrots. The vast gap between the life they should have and how they live in captivity, haunts me daily.
Doing the best I can to keep them happy/healthy, hoping a much better life for them can be found. All the outside birds live better, if not as long, and No bird really chooses a cage over freedom.
I'm not going to. I'd just love to. It's fun to imagine. But it's not fun to imagine keeping birds in cages. So I'd never do either thing but one of those things I do think about. Hope that clears it up.
I fully share the feelings in many ways. My concept to share the lives of birds that can't be released, but have a 'flock', and the wild ones we have access to, is inexpensive life cameras, with net access, with rotating control privileges, of pointing, and zoom/focus. So far most populations with these (usually 'Nest Cams' of the larger predatory birds) seem well tolerated. I hope these encourage more people to value bird's lives in the wild, and decrease the numbers imprisoned in enclosures.
One source of my infatuation came from a trip years ago to Lakeland, Florida, where there are (surprise) a lot of lakes and many shorebirds hang out there. They are extremely, almost dangerously, tame. One of the wood storks took a liking to us (no, we weren't feeding any of them) and it followed us back to our car. When we were getting in it was acting like it was also supposed to get in. My brain started fantasizing about casual wood stork cohabitation. Implausible, sure. But fun to imagine.
I have no issues with making friends with local animals, but this needs Very careful study to not cause needless deaths if they don't carefully discriminate between the few friends, and the many uncaring, and the few murderous humans. Crows are good at this, most of the stilt family, not so much. I want to make friends with the crows on my sister's WA farm, but it will be complicated by the next door farm having been purchased by a gun club from Seattle.
Catinadogsuit
"you what mate! take that! and that! , that'll teach u not to call me a flamingo again!"
pufferphish
Hitting the edge everytime, serious kill shots....jurassic curbies are awesome
scottplant9112
Bird
Silkyninja1
smoldix42069
Me playing fighting games spamming the only move that I know
Electricfox5
Dude has a sickle claw. I'm going to shut myself in a kitchen storage locker.
ParaspriteHugger
They let him smash!
TheDisembodiedFloatingHeadOfEdwardGRobinson
LifeIsADanceOfMinds
Hey Kevin - we have about a billion (or two) Mediterranean Lizards now swamping our Island...
Wanna vacation out west for a spell?
dragonsluvtacos
Rock on you funky little dinosaur!
3rdoption
I hope he doesn't try to swallow the thing when he thinks it's "dead".
Valentijn101
https://i.imgur.com/gYRHJu0 poing
Onlyhereforthelaughs
Charizard used Seismic Toss!
ChareAndFlaff
He's trying to shatter its bones so that it will be easier to swallow.
ChareAndFlaff
Ooo, I also found this
Exyr
That is just the perfect name for that bird. Hopefully it doesn't lead them to some miserable old man that's spent a life time hunting it.
mcglirkymeow
Exyr
oozabooza
i always updoot birbs
BeaverOnFire
AustinJolly
BirdLady
Same!
LariCheltsy
Alsenoth
I have a Favorites Folder I think you'd like.
oozabooza
awww, I'll check it out!
cytherians
"Is it dead yet?"
Kevin: "No. It is never dead."
cytherians
"Do you ever smack your beak on the rock?"
Kevin: "What do you take me for... a human?"
mindstorm8191
"I'll know when it's dead. It'll bleed! ...It's still not bleeding... why won't this thing die?!?"
cytherians
If you tell him it's fake, he'll say "You can never be completely sure. Gotta do the needful!" 😏😂
mindstorm8191
"Fake?? It can't be fake! It's lizard shaped!! How can it not be a lizard!?!"
cytherians
There's fren-shaped. And there's enemy-shaped. 😏😉
Kevin: "It's playing dead. I'm sure of it. If I stop and turn my back, it'll strike!"
flornholio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seriema
EleganceIsDead
Oh yeah, close relative of the, sadly now extinct, "Terror Bird," which was basically a 10ft (3m) Ostrich, with an overgrown head that only ate meat, and was like an uber-hunter in S. America before it went extinct... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Skeleton_of_Titanis_at_the_Florida_Museum_of_Natural_History.jpg
relsky
You can't fool me, I know a chocobo skeleton when I see it.
EleganceIsDead
Addendum; just now, relookin at that Skeletal Fossil, for the size of its head and that neck length, that motherfucker had to have had the thickest fuckin neck you ever saw. LOL!
AntiProtonBoy
That being said, bird bones are crazy light and less dense compared to mammals.
EleganceIsDead
That's all well & good, but beaks aren't built like the rest of the bird's commonly aerated bones. Beaks tend to be mostly solid compressed bones, layer coated with keratin or hard nail/claw material. While only having respiratory holes with air passages near the skull. If you look at this bird, it has a HUGE head for a bird, 2/3s of that head weight is beak. Plus if you look at those Cervical vertebrae, they're massive & spinal bones only develop like that when there's heavy muscle attachment.
Snooj
I'm not a fan of people keeping songbirds in little cages to imprison their cuteness, but I'd love to have a pet seriema or a secretary bird running around the house. Or a wood stork.
executivedisfunction
So it's OK to imprison a bird away from flock, any hope of mate/family, and the whole outdoors, just because you want to? I'd love to hear the reasoning why this is bad for small songbirds and fine for a different size of 'cute' birds. I hope this exercise brings home the idea, "Just because you can, doesn't mean you Should." And I have birds, all unreleasable 'commercially bred' parrots. The vast gap between the life they should have and how they live in captivity, haunts me daily.
executivedisfunction
Doing the best I can to keep them happy/healthy, hoping a much better life for them can be found. All the outside birds live better, if not as long, and No bird really chooses a cage over freedom.
Snooj
I'm not going to. I'd just love to. It's fun to imagine. But it's not fun to imagine keeping birds in cages. So I'd never do either thing but one of those things I do think about. Hope that clears it up.
executivedisfunction
I fully share the feelings in many ways. My concept to share the lives of birds that can't be released, but have a 'flock', and the wild ones we have access to, is inexpensive life cameras, with net access, with rotating control privileges, of pointing, and zoom/focus. So far most populations with these (usually 'Nest Cams' of the larger predatory birds) seem well tolerated. I hope these encourage more people to value bird's lives in the wild, and decrease the numbers imprisoned in enclosures.
Snooj
One source of my infatuation came from a trip years ago to Lakeland, Florida, where there are (surprise) a lot of lakes and many shorebirds hang out there. They are extremely, almost dangerously, tame. One of the wood storks took a liking to us (no, we weren't feeding any of them) and it followed us back to our car. When we were getting in it was acting like it was also supposed to get in. My brain started fantasizing about casual wood stork cohabitation. Implausible, sure. But fun to imagine.
executivedisfunction
I have no issues with making friends with local animals, but this needs Very careful study to not cause needless deaths if they don't carefully discriminate between the few friends, and the many uncaring, and the few murderous humans. Crows are good at this, most of the stilt family, not so much. I want to make friends with the crows on my sister's WA farm, but it will be complicated by the next door farm having been purchased by a gun club from Seattle.