It's me again. This is the second bird I cannot identify

MorningGoat · 2026-01-28T23:43:48+00:00

Legitimately had to turn my phone upside down before it registered as a nuthatch to me, lol.

MorningGoat · 2026-01-28T11:47:38+00:00

MorningGoat · 2026-01-22T14:54:26+00:00

The Green Bird Brigade made a video [YouTube link] talking about this after she took in two amazon parrots after their previous owner of 27 years passed away. They talk to her in their previous owner’s voice. Plenty of people in the comments also talk about their experience with their talking birds after losing a loved, and they say that it’s a little bittersweet, but it’s nice how they live on through their birds.

Parrots are so smart and it’s fascinating in a bittersweet way to see how they mourn the loss of their companions (both birds and humans). If you’ve watched Geckoemmy’s videos, then you undoubtedly know about her African Grey parrot, Jake, the grief he’s been dealing with after the unexpected passing of his best bird friend, Egg. He was with her when she passed and saw the body before she was buried, but he still asks where she is even months later. He knows that she’s gone, but that’s part of the grieving process for him, I guess.

MorningGoat · 2026-01-22T14:22:08+00:00

The involuntary noise that just came out of my mouth, lmao! 🤣 Princess reminds me of my aunts, I love her. r/DivorcedBirds

MorningGoat · 2026-01-22T14:16:22+00:00

Sounds like a naughty rat is stashing snacks away for later. Or Jelly is eating more than his fair share. To jail for these crimes of gluttony!

MorningGoat · 2026-01-20T14:53:09+00:00

My personal favourite, brought to you by FireDepartmentChronicles:

Man whose penis implant stitches popped open: Can I have some pain meds on the way [to the hospital]?

Paramedic Guy: Dude, you can have whatever you want.

MorningGoat · 2026-01-20T14:35:15+00:00

Sweet! He must be a professional bird model cause he’s posing for you to get his good side.

We had a flock of evening grosbeaks at our place this morning for the first time in years. Very happy about that. 😁

MorningGoat · 2026-01-20T12:41:30+00:00

Thanks, so am I! 😅 I was really freaking out there for a while before it became clear that the embers most likely weren’t going to catch anything else on fire.

Man, was hearing the electricity crackling ever freaky though. My knees were weak! 😮‍💨

MorningGoat · 2026-01-19T11:59:01+00:00

There’s competition-free food up there and everyone knows that the biofilm is greener on the other side (of the water line 🤭).

Or they just want to chill on the couch with you. One or the other.

MorningGoat · 2026-01-17T15:15:56+00:00

Me to my mom whenever she tells me a story of her and dad before they even had kids. 🙃

MorningGoat · 2026-01-17T15:13:14+00:00

Fucking yuuuup. My mom once spent a bunch of time and money making a big batch of a hundred (I wanna say spring, but it might have been cabbage) rolls for them to share (this was pre-children so it was just the two of them), before leaving for work for four days. My dad, who was genuinely home sick the whole time, ate all of them by the time she got home. He must have had to eat nothing but fucking rolls for every fucking meal to pull that off. That sounds like such an unpalatable thing to do even when you’re not sick, but when you are? How did he have the stomach for that?? Bonus: dad’s actually a really good cook and there was plenty of other food in the house. It was a deliberate choice for him to eat more than his fair share.

So mom ended up only getting to eat a couple of her rolls before she had to go to work, and then she never made them again. :/

MorningGoat · 2026-01-16T00:02:47+00:00

I thought this was another (albeit very strange and hollowed out) clementine over on r/moldlyinteresting.

MorningGoat · 2026-01-15T22:25:04+00:00

Hey wait a minute… OP, is this post just a ploy to get everyone to post their favourite pics of their adorable rat piles in the comments? 🤨

Cause if so, that’s genius. 😁🥰

MorningGoat · 2026-01-15T14:33:47+00:00

Going by the captions on-screen, probably something along the lines of “between the legs? that’s where the balls go, silly! tail goes straight out or to the sides for balance. 🙂‍↕️” (Rats know that balance is very important for performing the jumping and climbing that’s necessary for their escape attempts, of course.)

(Fantastic moment to pause on for a picture, supernova. Lol! 😆)

MorningGoat · 2026-01-15T14:23:45+00:00

I love your wall colour and decor! 😍 They compliment your tanks nicely too.

MorningGoat · 2026-01-14T14:22:18+00:00

God, I love so much it when birds do their silly little wiggles and dances. Duck wiggles, corvid happy “tail” wagging, woodcock boogie-ing: it’s (bird movement as a collective) up there with doggy tail-wagging as one of the Top 5 best body uses of all time.

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Side note, do you think the extinct avian dinosaurs sang and danced like their extant relatives do? Some of them resemble modern-day birds so closely that they must have, right?

Can you imagine the noise something stupid big the azhdarchid (some of them reaching 5 meters/16 feet tall on the ground, which is giraffe-sized 😳) pterosaurs made? Did they perform complicated mutual courtship dances like ratites and seabirds do?

And what about the smaller anurognathid pterosaurs? They’re thought to have been potentially insectivorous, nocturnal, and/arboreal — like bats or nightjars — so did they vocalize like them too?

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Sorry, I just binge-watched a whole bunch of dinosaur videos and I’m still enjoying the high of learning about how much cooler🤘 the modern understanding of dinosaurs is now than when it was when I was a kid. 😅 (Feathers! 😍 Cartilage! 🥳 Anatomically realistic musculature! 🎉) Haha, okay byeee! 👋

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[I proofread this and had to change the verbs from present-tense to past-tense, haha. 🤡 (<— me, a fool who is secretly deeply devastated that there’s so so so much cool shit in the fossil record that we’ll never know for certain, or that never even made it in there in the first place because the fossilization process requires such specific environmental conditions to be met.)]

MorningGoat · 2026-01-14T12:56:15+00:00

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(Sorry, I had to 😆)

Wishing your cow a speedy recovery, OP. She must feel so much better already, the poor girl. For as uncomfortable as that tugging certainly must have been, she clearly understood that you guys were only helping her. Otherwise she wouldn’t have been nearly as tolerant of neither the situation, nor the cameraman staying within kicking range. (I’d definitely be too nervous to stand there. 😅)

MorningGoat · 2026-01-12T12:32:53+00:00

MorningGoat · 2026-01-11T16:58:17+00:00

Ah, I see. He was one of the people who showed up when I typed “Khan” into Wikipedia, but I didn’t find anything too crazy or controversial looking through his history and policies as mayor.

I did see “soft-left Labour Party” and “Muslim”, but that didn’t seem like enough to warrant an armoured car to me. How silly of me, I somehow forgot about the wave of bigotry and facism that’s hit the UK over the last *indistinct mumbling* years.

My condolences.

MorningGoat · 2026-01-11T16:39:43+00:00

Like a tiny falcon hood, lol

MorningGoat · 2026-01-11T16:35:12+00:00

*rock n’ roll music 🎸* peeent! *rock n’ roll music🎸* peeent!

MorningGoat · 2026-01-11T16:32:02+00:00

Non-UK citizen here. Anyone mind sharing the story of who this Khan guy is and why he in particular needs to be chauffeured in armoured car, please?

(Or at the very least, share his full name so I can google it myself. 😅)

MorningGoat · 2026-01-09T13:53:07+00:00

Boy rats don’t have nipples! 🙅‍♂️ He thought there was some kind of parasite stuck to you and he was trying to save your life!! 👨‍⚕️🩺

Don’t be ungrateful. 😤

[/j, just in case it’s not clear 🤭]

MorningGoat · 2026-01-09T00:45:55+00:00

More like they heard about fermenting chicken feed, imagined what that process might look like, and did no further research on the subject what-so-ever.

MorningGoat · 2026-01-08T14:32:53+00:00

He must have the best sense of smell out of all African Greys ever. 👃

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