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The strangest picture I ever took was of an upside down crow. It's the first load on our band website https://blameclub.com https://blameclub.com I posted it t
by dmje 5y ago
The strangest picture I ever took was of an upside down crow. It's the first load on our band website https://blameclub.com https://blameclub.com
I posted it to Reddit at the time and got a bunch of suggestions ranging from "it's dead" to "crows love to play tricks". I never got to the bottom of what was going on.
- mths 5y agoI've seen lorikeets do this outside my home. I've also seen cockatoos do a couple of screaming barrel rolls for seemingly no reason in their fly byes. I think they just like to have a little fun. Alternatively the lorikeet was looking for something to swoop down at.
- stubish 5y agoWe actually get that behavior a lot with parrots. Galahs mostly, but also Corellas and Cockatoos. It is most common to see Galahs hand upside down when there is a light rain, with their wings open and giving their armpits a wash. But not always. Once we caught a Cockatoo spinning three or four times around on a wire like some sort of trapeze artist while another pair looked on, including at one point holding on with a single foot. There seemed to be no reason apart from showing off. I believe that the main reason people think that swans occasionally fly upside down is also just to show off, for shits and giggles. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=galah+upside+down&t=ffab&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=galah+upside+down&t=ffab&iax=image...
- dmje 5y agoWow, that's amazing, thanks for the insight :-)