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Do birds ever fly just for fun or are they always on a mission
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over a year ago
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Read ‘Jonathan Livingstone Seagull’, he flies for the sheer joy and freedom of it. It’s a lovely, uplifting story that my Dad shared with me as a small child and I still treasure. |
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"Read ‘Jonathan Livingstone Seagull’, he flies for the sheer joy and freedom of it. It’s a lovely, uplifting story that my Dad shared with me as a small child and I still treasure. "
You beat me to it , Richard Bach’s tale of the joys of flight , but I’m sure for a swallow , UK to South Africa come autumn is just a plain old hard slog x |
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"I reckon they do but here's an interesting thought do birds ever just piss or is it always shit  "
Birds don't pass urine. Birds dispose of their ammonia via the guano (as well as all other waste). |
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"I reckon they do but here's an interesting thought do birds ever just piss or is it always shit
Birds don't pass urine. Birds dispose of their ammonia via the guano (as well as all other waste)."
Fun fact for the day.  |
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"Sure they do, I used to see birds catching thermals and just floating around all the time when I lived in the countryside... Certainly didn't look like they were on a mission anyway  "
Looking for food probably. Starlings flying around in their thousands making pretty patterns ,I have no idea what that is about |
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"Sure they do, I used to see birds catching thermals and just floating around all the time when I lived in the countryside... Certainly didn't look like they were on a mission anyway
Looking for food probably. Starlings flying around in their thousands making pretty patterns ,I have no idea what that is about "
They're called murmuration's |
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"Sure they do, I used to see birds catching thermals and just floating around all the time when I lived in the countryside... Certainly didn't look like they were on a mission anyway
Looking for food probably. Starlings flying around in their thousands making pretty patterns ,I have no idea what that is about
They're called murmuration's "
All I know is that masturbations of starlings s(h)it on the telephone wires right above my car parking space! |
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"Sure they do, I used to see birds catching thermals and just floating around all the time when I lived in the countryside... Certainly didn't look like they were on a mission anyway
Looking for food probably. Starlings flying around in their thousands making pretty patterns ,I have no idea what that is about
They're called murmuration's "
I know what it is called, I said I do not know why they do it. Thanks |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'd say a bit of both
Just imagine if humans could fly
I'd be straight off down South
Being bone idle, I'd wait for a northerly wind to help me."
I'm saying nothing |
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Birds are the last living descendants of the dinosaurs when I see magpies I often can see that raptor quizzical look about them that you saw In Jurassic park when they are on the search for food highly Intelligent birds as somebody mentioned earlier part of the corvid family. |
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"Birds are the last living descendants of the dinosaurs when I see magpies I often can see that raptor quizzical look about them that you saw In Jurassic park when they are on the search for food highly Intelligent birds as somebody mentioned earlier part of the corvid family. "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Read ‘Jonathan Livingstone Seagull’, he flies for the sheer joy and freedom of it. It’s a lovely, uplifting story that my Dad shared with me as a small child and I still treasure. "
One of my favourite all time books..but it does say not many fly for fun.. |
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Common Swifts have evolved to essentially live in the air, where they can eat, drink, mate, and likely even sleep from the time they depart from Scandinavia in August until they return to breed in June. Surely if they're mating mid flight, there's gotta be some fun involved in that  |
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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago
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"Sure they do, I used to see birds catching thermals and just floating around all the time when I lived in the countryside... Certainly didn't look like they were on a mission anyway
Looking for food probably. Starlings flying around in their thousands making pretty patterns ,I have no idea what that is about
They're called murmuration's
I know what it is called, I said I do not know why they do it. Thanks"
..to distract predators over their (usually)nightly roosting site.. in much the same way as schools of fish move in large shoals ... most likely an inbred movement weather predators around or not.. |
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