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Ever wonder where the big birds get their sticks? I had just assumed they picked them up the way we would. But a large bird on the ground wrestling with a stic
by tejtm 7y ago
Ever wonder where the big birds get their sticks?
I had just assumed they picked them up the way we would.
But a large bird on the ground wrestling with a stick is vulnerable to ground adapted things.
I have seen them breaking significantly sized dead branches off the tops of trees with full diving attacks where the sticks never hit the ground.
- throwanem 7y agoA couple years back, I watched an osprey pull a three-foot length of steel wire out of a frayed cable on one of a tramp steamer's cranes. Osprey nests are wild. From the outside they look incredibly messy, and the wire wasn't an aberration; the birds make considerable use of human detritus in their engineering (cf. https://i.imgur.com/R2nO1Zu.jpg https://i.imgur.com/R2nO1Zu.jpg), and while I've never seen the inside of a nest due to how high up they build, I gather the end result is quite deep and spacious.