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A four year battle with birds https://imgur.io/a/W4GPjdh https://imgur.io/a/W4GPjdh
by pjot 3y ago
A four year battle with birds
https://imgur.io/a/W4GPjdh https://imgur.io/a/W4GPjdh
- FlingPoo 3y agoThat was a very funny read! Thanks!
- robador 3y agoThis is hilarious, thanks for sharing.
- maushu 3y agoHe could've easily built some heated bird houses with all the effort he wasted.
- pvaldes 3y agoShould have just build a nice nestbox a little higher than that, put it where they want, and let that dove nest in peace. Maybe canalizing part of the heat with a steel plate or something
- fhars 3y agoWell, the birds won the Great Emu War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
- hnbad 3y agoThe birds also won the war on sparrows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign Two nations fought wars on birds and lost. That should be a lesson.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago> Two nations fought wars on birds and lost. That should be a lesson. Indeed. Prosperity of a people, whether in terms of wealth, happiness, or exterminating all the pesky little critters, is achieved not through violent conflict, but by steadily and patiently growing the economy. Industry, not anger, is what extincts species.
- jyounker 3y agoSo true. So sad.
- jaredhallen 3y agoLittle known fact about birds - they can fly.
- cvccvroomvroom 3y agoSadly, humans won a pyric victory hunting tens of billions of passenger pigeons to extinction. It's a good thing emus are hardier than dodos.
- supertimor 3y agoSome gems from the wiki: “By the fourth day of the campaign, army observers noted that "each pack seems to have its own leader now—a big black-plumed bird which stands fully six feet high and keeps watch while his mates carry out their work of destruction [of the fields] and warns them of our approach". “By 8 November, six days after the first engagement, 2,500 rounds of ammunition had been fired.The number of birds killed is uncertain: one account estimates that it was 50 birds, but other accounts range from 200 to 500, the latter figure being provided by the settlers. Meredith's official report noted that his men had suffered no casualties.” After the withdrawal, Major Meredith had said: “If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world ... They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks.“ And Ornithologist Dominic Serventy had commented that: “The machine-gunners' dreams of point blank fire into serried masses of Emus were soon dissipated. The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month.” TLDR; Emus are badass warriors
- ChuckNorris89 3y agoWhen you have a 100+ IQ ape brain and get beaten by birds, hilarious.
- cvccvroomvroom 3y agoCorvids are sneaky, crafty, brave fuckers. They are willing and able to stealthily invade human-occupied spaces.
- Filligree 3y agoThey’re also smart enough and social enough to form genuine friendships. I’ve got a pair of ravens that drop by on occasion to watch television…
- ChuckNorris89 3y ago>I’ve got a pair of ravens that drop by on occasion to watch television Damn, you're making me fee lonelier. Can't get any human friends while mfs on HN already have raven friends.
- Filligree 3y agoBefriending ravens is fairly easy, to be fair. Don’t wait! Befriend a raven!
- cutemonster 3y agoHow do you do it? Giving them ... cookies and tree branches?
- kirubakaran 3y agoIt’s all about finding common ground. Skip a few meals. That’ll make you more ravenous.
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