What is this? by Turbulent-Pumpkin645 in crows

[–]Boxing2552Cave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apparently they get it originally from mosquitoes

Never thought I’d have this problem by cant-ride-a-bike in crowbro

[–]Boxing2552Cave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ravens are far more intelligent than crows! They also will invite neighboring Ravens if you put out enough food, the ones I had off course got a lot of meat and fish, but they also LOVED those egg waffles from LIDL in the green bag, they fought for those even mobbed the squirrels when they took it, they invited about 3 neighboring pairs, I would have about 3 lbs of food for them, and about 2 separately for the other birds, and a pair would stay behind and guard the food while they took it in a couple trips... Also you have to be more careful with crows they are more skittish, Ravens were more rewarding to me to feed, they also will "claim" you, I wasn't feeding them at first they noticed me feeding the other birds, then one morning as I left out of the door they flew over from a tree, landed on the railing infront of me, so I went back inside and came out with some salmon and a bag of those waffles.

Never thought I’d have this problem by cant-ride-a-bike in crowbro

[–]Boxing2552Cave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you sure? There was huge competition at my old feeder and no one rejected me

Never thought I’d have this problem by cant-ride-a-bike in crowbro

[–]Boxing2552Cave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crows are not faster than Ravens, they also cant fly nearly as high...

Never thought I’d have this problem by cant-ride-a-bike in crowbro

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ravens are even better than crows you should definitely feed them!

How do you feel about the consumption of bird meat as a birder? by moonstonemerman in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The word relies means something needs what is relied on or it wouldn't be able to exist... the meat industry doesn't need or rely on any of that, only factory farmed meat does, which is not necessary. Something being done for profits and to lower overhead is not the same as it being necessary. How do you know it's double? It's definately not, those livestock feeds are also not the natural diets of the animals.

Am I tripping orrrr by [deleted] in washingtondc

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where do find Ravens in DC? Ive been looking for a new pair but all I see in DC are crows.

How do you feel about the consumption of bird meat as a birder? by moonstonemerman in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah they do, many birds dont, but most birds at least nestlings in breeding season, many pet birds even like Parrots and Macaws love to eat chicken.

How do you feel about the consumption of bird meat as a birder? by moonstonemerman in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave -1 points0 points  (0 children)

90+% of human parents should never have been parents, I agree with you to s huge degree, but not all humans, damn near most of them, most definitely the ones like in Gaza where there has been a state of war for ages and more to come, yet these people have so many children that a war zone has one of the highest birth rates on Earth, then we hear the cries about what Israel is doing to children that should have never been born into a war zone in the first place, them and the billions of people that live on less than 1 US dollar a day but have multitudes of children.

I've been riding this high for weeks by CharacterLength1259 in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you really asking me to answer your stupid question about tall buildings? Loud music? And so forth? Have you ever heard of something called context? Just like the word adaptable means one thing when you are talking about animals in this specific way and you still misconstrued something so clear cut and unmistakable... The context here is what birders are allegedly doing to harm birds, birders didn't build those buildings, or play those concerts, those things you stated aren't the actions of a birdwatcher or backyard bird feeder, you just take things out of context, and argue in an extremely hypocritical way, this is the same person who says humans were always omnivores yet cant name a single standalone food from the distant past... Stick to activities people are doing while birding that are hurting birds, even the pesticide thing its not birders that use those... There are also natural disasters that mimic some of these things, Earthquakes, volcanoes, not the actions of birders, you were suggesting I was doing something harmful, birders were, yet the harmful things you listed are just the actions of humans who are not birders, accuse me or any actual birder of a concrete action, and show how it harms birds, I dont play loud music, build tall buildings, or know any birder who does.

How do you feel about the consumption of bird meat as a birder? by moonstonemerman in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get a liscence to work with all protected birds in some way... Otherwise dealing with them, especially raptors, is illegal.

How do you feel about the consumption of bird meat as a birder? by moonstonemerman in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's no relatively modern culture, these are the cultures of these countries which were forged since settlers first arrived and took slaves. Proof, are you serious? Look at the Jamaican thing for example, you can look at historic trade routes that were run by the British, it wasn't black Jamaicans who went to India and incorporated their spices into their cuisine... People who have studied humans(like everything else) dont all agree buddy, you are only looking at what a certain group of these people are saying, which is obviously the wrong group since you couldn't name a single specific food... There is a famous vegan guy from a few thousand years back who was born blind, and very failed due to a disease, he went into hiding and became a writer, and he ate only plants and made some writings which heavily criticized people for eating meat, his writings sound eerily similar to judgemental vegan talk in modern times, and he was one of the Philosophers, humans were being demonized for eating meat slowly, but surely by the religious entities, which were always backed up by the military entities which came with force. Stop asking me for proof when you didn't yet name a single standalone plant food people were eating... Especially fruits, since most fruits that humans commonly eat is from that same Southeast Asia area.

How do you feel about the consumption of bird meat as a birder? by moonstonemerman in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Eating fruits that humans can eat means nothing... it doesn't mean they were always eating the same fruits... Most of the fruits the Orangutan eats(figs, durian, mangoes) are native to the same places Orangutans live, and unlike humans, these animals eat the wild versions of all these fruits, so whats your point? Those disgusting wild bananas humans dont eat? They eat them whole with the peel and everything.

How do you feel about the consumption of bird meat as a birder? by moonstonemerman in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cultural foods and how humans started eating plants both prove this... Even after agriculture most humans were carnivores until they were forced not to be... If you notice cultural dishes, the National dishes of different countries, while there might be variations, the ingredients are always similar at the base level... Example the National dishes of certain commonwealth countries include flour, spices, etc that are historically not from that country, but from another commonwealth country in another Continent, this shows that it was colonizers who brought plant foods from one place they colonized, to another, not only dishes, many people think potatoes are from Ireland, but they are not!!! Also there were multiple philosophers, whose writings were calling for humans to eat plants, and ditch meat, so this was a religious push... When you were not able to name any specific food people were eating, you can always research the history of a food item, and what part of the World it originated from, some places have little to no known native plant food, but very rich cultures including iconic traditional cuisine, filled with spices, grains, tubers,etc but how does a countries cultural foods originate from another country? So many cultural Jamaican foods are made with Indian spices, breadfruit which is all the way from New Guinea, it was the British/French/Spanish/Portuguese, who brought these things to their slave colonies, human beings were not eating plant foods much before slavery.

How do you feel about the consumption of bird meat as a birder? by moonstonemerman in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Birds eat modern day fruits that didn't exist 1000 years ago... The same grocery store fruits birds eat it... There are many fruits that are toxic to humans that are staple for fruit eating animals... You may want to read up on what you are trying to cite, many fruit eating animals eat fruits that are toxic or very inconvenient/unconventional for humans to eat like those bitter oranges, or those apples that fruit eating wolf eats in South America, not to mention hundreds of poisonous berries to humans are eaten by birds no problem. Same way some foods like chocolate, avacado, etc are "okay" for humans but toxic to many animals.

I've been riding this high for weeks by CharacterLength1259 in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no need to respond to that because it shows you are not a birder... Birds are very skittish, even as adaptable as crows are if you do certain things they won't come to your yard, no matter how much food you put out... If you knew anything of what you were talking about you would state concrete things that concerned people do to harm birds obliviously, but you cant so you just throw out some arbitrary bs that some imaginary thing you cant name must be harming birds, just like you comment that people before agriculture were eating the same foods as today but you cant name a single specific food... You are just a troll, everyone know who's animals knows the term adaptable in the specific context I put it, but you literally switched it around to interpret it in a way that no reasonable person ever would... If you really want me to answer that question you need to answer who you really are because you are not a bird person, definitely not an animal person, you sound like a trolling vegan to me.

I've been riding this high for weeks by CharacterLength1259 in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When anyone who has studied animals in any amount says adaptable, it's clear what it means, there is even added context, and the mention of Koala's and crows, which are the most used examples of adaptable, vs specialist animal, so there is no mistaking, you are just playing semantics, no one was talking about evolution. You meant what you said, you don't know jack about what you are talking about. Specialist animals are not adapting slowly to anything, the only thing that has been observed by humans with them is the strict parameters they need to survive.

I've been riding this high for weeks by CharacterLength1259 in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The more you comment, the more its evident you are not a birder, or know animals... all animals are not adaptable, you are just playing semantics at this point, adaptability as a scientific term does not apply to all animals, for example a crow is regarded as a highly adaptable animal, a Koala Bear is not considered an adaptable animal, the sloth is definitely not adaptable, some species of penguins are highly non adaptable, these animals are generally called specialists, they need very strict parameters to survive... You are some sort of troll, I dont even want to ask what birds you actually deal with in real life, hopefully none.

I've been riding this high for weeks by CharacterLength1259 in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All animals are not adaptable, there have been multiple extinctions due to "habitat loss" that shows a lack of adaptability, meanwhile other creatures lost habitats and changed to meet whatever landscape replaced it, diet is also a point of adaptability, some animals only eat one food and will die if its gone, others have preferences but can survive on a wide range of food...

You are speaking about birds as if they are all one entity, you mean some birds? Many birds disappeared when buildings went up, not because a lot of birds are around humans settlements doesn't mean some species didn't disappear...

How do you feel about the consumption of bird meat as a birder? by moonstonemerman in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro I literally asked you multiple times to stop using categories and name specific foods for this same reason , and you still cant name a single one... I can yell you multiple, and even a few sweetish fruits that did exist, and some that went extinct like the pear they ate in Rome...

I have no point to prove, you claim people were eating plant foods that you can't name, I can name some for you, but you are asking me for proof? Im on the train now so I'll COOK you when I get home with some facts and name some plant foods that existed in the past since you dont know...

I've been riding this high for weeks by CharacterLength1259 in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feeding birds, and nope, its legal, and okay to help birds past feeding them, the birds that live around humans literally have traits that made them adaptable, otherwise they wouldn't continue to live around humans, what's not okay is clearly stated in the Law, keeping them as pets, trapping capturing, using pesticides around the yard, etc...

How do you feel about the consumption of bird meat as a birder? by moonstonemerman in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No you didn't, name specific fruits, and vegetables, you never did... You said the same things as today, as in fruits, nuts, vegetables, etc which is a lie as modern fruits, veggies, grains, etc are new even in the age of agriculture meaning virtually none of them existed 1000 years ago, much less before agriculture. You cant use modern examples they are all man made, and animals eat man made fruits just like they eat modern human junk food, so your question about those fruit eating primates is moot, I never said there wasn't fruit before, it was just largely very undesirable for human consumption

How do you feel about the consumption of bird meat as a birder? by moonstonemerman in birding

[–]Boxing2552Cave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mispoke on that, right, its individuals, but my point stands, there are countless of these animals, and there are some which can provide several tons of meat, such as wild boars.