yeah I saw that thing 60 minutes a while back i beleive, with the crows problem-solving. smart fuckers.
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yeah I saw that thing 60 minutes a while back i beleive, with the crows problem-solving. smart fuckers.
YesQuote:
Originally Posted by OSECS
flying dinosaurs
i like crows and unfortunately have seen ravens very few times
Double-crested Cormorant? Surely, you're not suggesting a Crow or any other corvid is a "flying dinosaur."Quote:
Originally Posted by DBdude
Sorry to hear it. Ravens are cool birds. You don't get out west much?Quote:
Originally Posted by DBdude
pretty sure birds are direct descendents of dinosaurs that survived the die outQuote:
Originally Posted by GeezerSteve
i lived in seattle for ten years and yeah saw them out west. they are scarce in vermont
well, they've evolved a bit since thenQuote:
Originally Posted by DBdude
sure
and there is some discussion of semi warm blooded dinos
dinosaurs did not have feathers
nor hollow thin-wall lightweight bones
nor the brainpower of many modern bird species, especially corvids
etc., etc., etc.
some dinos are thought to have had feathers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feathered_dinosaur
Cormorants or Ravens?Quote:
Originally Posted by DBdude
I've seen loads of both in VT.
The cormorants are concentrated to Lake Champlain where they have been a bit of an environmental nuisance.
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/biolo...-birds/3327314
That said, Ravens are cool but crows are assholes when they get together in a group.
Sea Gulls are indeed flying rats IMHO. Although they do a great job cleaning up trash from the beaches.
i didn't mean cormorants - shoot those fuckers
there aren't many ravens around in vt - not in my part. there are some in the NE Kingdom and the the high peaks in NY
Birds aren't related to dinosaurs - they ARE dinosaurs. Descended from theropods, they're the only extant clade of dinos.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeezerSteve
yep - i didn't want to make a big deal about itQuote:
Originally Posted by flyandski365
The French are putting them to work.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/13/63820...h-why-cant-you
I hate magpies. When they ate all my cherries one year, that alone pissed me off, but then they shit cherry pits all over the fucking house, cars, decks, everything. Never again. I decided to shoot them all the following year with my pellet gun. It worked. Only a couple came the following year, and this year none came. Fuck those guys.
Murder of Crows:
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Murdered Crow:
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(actually I have no idea how this crow died, only that I found the carcass along a trail near my house)
put me in the raven camp
3-4 years ago caught a mid week up slope at the local hill, great powder morning and then the sun came out, my cue to leave. drove the road down the hill and a raven was catching the wind buff off the car or something but did about 5-7 barrel rolls right next to my window. very cool.
But they're not direct descendents of lizards, so what are they? Bird hipped vs. lizard hipped, I say Mothra crushes Godzilla.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeezerSteve
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If a crow was on a treadmill could it take off and fly ?
yup, those bastards are from hell.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
... spent time in NB panhandle as a kid, fuckers were releantless
Just saw a murder chase off a bald eagle above my house. Super intense
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Somehow in the 8 years since this was posted it had stopped haunting my dreams.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDaddy
Missed it the first time.
Kinda wish I'd missed in this time.
The music was a brutally deceitful trick.
A red tailed hawk took apart some pigeon on my front porch.
The security cameras taped the whole thing... I found out my cameras picked up sound too that day.
Haunting dread filled me, how many times have I taken the dog out to pee so my wife couldn't hear my phone calls and I end up giving her recordings of them.
Go out there and pretend to be talking to a jeweler about a very special present for her and see if things change around the house.
I was trying to find a pic of Thelonius the Red-Tailed Hawk chugging a fucking pigeon outside Basom's window but I didn't.
But I did find this, completely by accident:
It was archived in this classic old thread which contains links to many classic old threads: https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...read.php/38342Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Etch that sucker in stone.
at least you re not core shot bumping any random thread. jesus.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman