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On a related bird/window note: Where I live there are many birds - we have been encouraging them for years after nearly exterminating them carelessly. Two in
by worik 3y ago
On a related bird/window note:
Where I live there are many birds - we have been encouraging them for years after nearly exterminating them carelessly.
Two in particular, an indigenous bird we call the Fantail, or Pīwakawaka, and the common Starling.
The starlings occasionally blunder inside the house, and they cannot get out, they will repeatedly smash into the same window, over and over, until they brain themselves and loose consciousness or we take mercy and catch them and evict them.
The Pīwakawaka on the other hand will come in an open window, fly into every corner of the house looking for, catching, and eating flies, then fly out the window they came in.
One day I carelessly shut the windows with a Pīwakawaka in the house. I was sitting at my computer and the Pīwakawaka flew at my head, repeatedly, until I got up and opened a window for it to escape.
Birds can be remarkably stupid ("bird brained" for a reason) or they can be simply remarkable.
- jamiek88 3y agoGuessing NZ?! Yes birds when they are smart can be very, very smart. I am pals with a couple of blue jays who eat my sunflowers. They chase off the crows who torment my dog. The crows will swoop at Kramer the poodley mutt and it drives him crazy. His genetics make him a small game hunter and excellent ratter. He looks like a lap dog and can be one but give him prey around and he’s a monster. He caught a crow dive bombing him once which just got him desperate to do it again. The pugs just ignore them thus the crows don’t bother diving at them but they learned from the one failed attempt. They also had what seemed to be a funeral for their fallen soldier. I plant fifty or so sunflowers every year to fatten up the blue jays for winter and help protect their nest from the hawks that linger too. Quite the little deal we have. There’s a distinct call they’ll make when they want help with a murder of crows or a pair of hawks. The hawk scream is higher pitched that’s a defcon one. I work from my garden mostly so respond quickly with the high pressure hose that can reach to the top of the tree they nest in to chase off our enemies if my jay homies are outnumbered a lot.