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I nutted in my dead birds ass and now I’m in big trouble.

by CopyPastaArchive July 5, 2022, 12:12 am

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TIL that Scotts Miracle-Gro Company knowingly sold poisoned bird seed for over 2 years. They sold 70+ million bags of bird seed with a pesticide toxic to birds to help with insect control during storage. Scotts paid a fine of $4 million and give an additional $500,000 donation to wildlife study.

by whatilearned July 2, 2022, 9:57 pm

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TIL that (UK) Pelican crossings have nothing to do with birds. They’re called Pelicon crossings which stands for people light controlled

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 10:04 pm

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TIL there is a activity called parahawking that combines paragliding with falconry in which Birds of prey are trained to fly with paragliders, guiding them to thermals. Parahawking was developed by British falconer Scott Mason in 2001

by whatilearned June 27, 2022, 8:47 pm

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TIL that in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1984 a single yellow-headed amazone escaped from captivity, followed by a male a year later. Those two parrots have established a population of 60 birds, making them the biggest wild population of parrots in Europe

by whatilearned June 16, 2022, 10:22 pm

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I used to jerk off to angry birds

by CopyPastaArchive June 10, 2022, 11:54 am

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TIL In the first half of the 20th century, state sponsored campaigns dynamited roosting areas, taking large numbers of American Crows. A campaign in Oklahoma from 1934 to 1945 dynamited 3.8 million birds.

by whatilearned June 7, 2022, 10:01 pm

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TIL that the brown-headed cowbird is an obligate brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other small birds. Once hatched the young cowbirds are fed by the host parents at the expense of their own young. More than 140 different species of birds are known to have raised young cowbirds.

by whatilearned June 2, 2022, 1:13 am

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TIL Birds Are Likely Able to See Magnetic Fields

by whatilearned May 30, 2022, 8:58 pm

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TIL hummingbird feeders need daily cleaning in hot weather bc nectar spoils in heat & sickens the birds. Several ways to protect their food from overheating include: place feeders in shade, freeze nectar into small cubes & fill feeders with them to delay heating, wrap in foil, use glass feeders.

by whatilearned May 30, 2022, 7:57 pm

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TIL New Zealand kea birds can be taught to use touchscreens with their tongues.

by whatilearned May 29, 2022, 3:25 pm

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Angry Birds and Sonic deserve to have the title of gold standard of Video Game adaptations more than the Halo show

by CopyPastaArchive May 22, 2022, 4:05 am

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