Reblogging to hopefully circulate this again with some facts since apparently 99% of people are confused about birds:
1) When birds trust their owner, they will often lay their eggs around/on them. It’s very sweet and not at all gross. The eggs are exactly like chicken eggs but smaller. No I don’t eat them (because I hate eggs). They’re unfertilized (I don’t have a male pigeon) just like them too!
2) People have pet pigeons, it’s not out of the ordinary. And since most comments I get are “ONLY WHITE PEOPLE”…most pige owners I know are poc. So ok.
3) Pigeons are not “trash birds”. They’re very smart, clean and wonderful companion birds. She lays in my lap more than any cat I’ve ever had. 😐 Yes, she poops, but that’s why there are things like Kleenex (and there are pigeon “pants”, aka diapers).
4) COO COO, BITCH
Look at the smile on that birds face.
A lovely, very satisfied pigeon who loves her person.
Rex laid an egg on my chest while I was napping once.
Your bird has to love you a looooooot to lay an egg on your lap
The fossils of a tiny bird found on Native American land in New
Mexico are giving scientists big new ideas about what happened after
most dinosaurs went extinct. The 62-million-year-old mousebird suggests
that, after the great dino die-off, birds rebounded and diversified
rapidly, setting the stage for today’s dizzying variety of feathery
forms.
The newly discovered fossils, described online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
are a scrappy collection of bits and pieces rather than a complete
skeleton. But certain tell-tale characteristics—such as its fourth toe,
which it could turn around forward or backward to help it climb or
grasp—convinced the team that it was an ancient mousebird.
Researchers
unearthed the fossils in New Mexico on ancestral Navajo lands, in rocks
dating to between 62.2 million and 62.5 million years old. They named
the creature Tsidiiyazhi abini—Navajo for “little morning
bird.” Its mousebird descendants—about the size of a sparrow and marked
by their soft, grayish or brownish hairlike feathers—still dwell in
trees in sub-Saharan Africa today…
Strange pets.
Parsley is indoors until he can go to his new home, he doesn’t get along with the rest of the flock.
#rex #pigeon #parsley #silkies #chickies
These little cuties are Manukura (first 3 images) and her little sister Mauriora (last image)! They’re not albino, they’re just naturally white which is quite rare for North Island Brown Kiwis. They live at Pukaha Mount Bruce, one of New Zealand’s most successful wildlife and captive breeding centre.
I was quite busy these last few days, and did not have enough time to go through my pics (for some reason, the photo booth camera turned out more than 10.000 the other day and I am still sorting them out o.O). Today, however, I was lucky enough to have the time to watch all my four backyard Bluebird babies fledge 😀 It was wonderful to see the whole procedure. The babies called the parents, and started making their way out as soon as they got sufficiently frequent replies from them. My fledge day pics never come out good because my lens is not good enough, but I still wanted to share this one here. This was baby 2. Not super elegant, but it made it out! I am very happy that it all went well this time around. I cannot wait for them to bring their babies back to the yard and hope I can catch them on the photo booth too. Well, and I hope they start another nest, the summer is still long enough….
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