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i DID actually while i was looking up owls a while back oh MAN they have incredible faces, like some kinda confused ghost who ended up in a bird and now just has to live with it
looks like they come in lesser and greater sooty flavors, and theyre both pretty similar except for their sizes (about 43 cm for the greater, 37 for the lesser)
theyre like someone took a barn owl and just lowered the brightness, threw some speckles in there, made their eyes a direct portal to the infinite nightmarish abyss, called it a day
the YOUNG SOOTY OWLS on the other hand dont even look like real animals. they look like someone made a dodo out of felt and accidentally left it in a dryer. owls are great
i have seen this post on my dash 7 times now and every time i think more loudly, âthis is what Batman villain The Penguinâs dialogue sounds like when they let him be fun to watch.â
Australia learned this during the Great Emu War, which we lost.
Donât hate me but I really believe the world would be a better place if pigeons were the ubiquitous avian pet instead of parrots đ
Actually, the world would be better if pigeons were fucking extinguished
I think you need to sit and address why you hold such vitriol for a species of domesticated bird we have lived with for nearly ten thousand years, and redirect it towards something that deserves it. WE made pigeons homeless after we abandoned them as companion creatures. They are harmless and innocent and your hatred of them for existing is disgusting. Wanting a species destroyed because you donât personally enjoy them is real fucked up and you should think about why you feel that way.
Edit: not to mention they are DOVES. Theyâre just doves! Ffs!
Mate it ainât that deep lol I just donât like them. I made this post ages ago and, obviously, I wouldnât like for them to be extinguished.
BUT
I do consider them to be a pest, I do consider them dirty and theyâre known for being vectors of multiple human and livestock diseases.
And from a Daily Pioneer article on pigeon pox, the strain of avian pox that pigeons are known for spreading - that canât even spread to *other birds,* let alone humans.
Pigeons are not dirty and theyâre not pests. Theyâre doves that we bred for meat, companionship, and carrying our mail, then threw out to fend for themselves in a wild they no longer belong in. The belief that theyâre dirty creatures is bullshit, just like the belief that rats spread the black death is bullshit.
It IS that deep - itâs incredibly important to combat misinformation that affects wildlife, especially populations of wildlife that are regularly targeted by ignorant people because theyâre an easy target. Pigeons are invasive because we made them invasive, and they crowd in our cities because they need humans to survive. They are pets, not pests, and spreading the âtheyâre gross and carry diseaseâ line causes demonstratable harm to them. We need to be bringing them in and reducing populations through adoption rather than encouraging their death.
Please spend some time with beliefs like this and question where they came from and who it helps to hold them. Who benefits from it? Do you? Does the environment? Is it true? If not, why do you hold to it? Why do you spread it? These are important questions to ask before making statements about *killing animals,* especially. Pigeons are targeted by people all the time with violence for existing. Donât contribute to that.
Ironically, that exact line of thought, that exact lack of concern for an entire speciesâ worth, already led to an entire species of pigeon going extinct. Itâs not a hypothetical anymore.
Whether it was deep or not, that feeling already killed a species.
This is exactly like saying âwe need to exterminate all cats bc there are feral cat colonies, things which largely exist bc of our shitty care of domestic animals.â
No, we need for people to recognize that doves/pigeons were our friends and then we abandoned them and itâs so fucking SAD and HATEFUL the way we treated them.
the crested barbet is a sub-saharan african bird. highly territorial, this bird is very defensive and has been recorded killing rats and snakes on their territory. males and females appear identical. both sexes participate in rearing of the chicks, of which they may have up to five broods of during a breeding season. they primarily feed on insects and other birdsâ eggs, but they may feed on small animals from time to time. they roost & nest in hollow trees and logs. their markings are very distinct from other barbets, which often feature more blocky, less striped markings.
