I still think it’s beautiful. Just listen to songs they’ve made in pursuit of getting some.
Listen to the songs people have made with the same agenda. Pretty good too.
I feel like I’ve seen this exact joke in several different web comics
I am fairly sure of that as well.
That’s the state of modern webcomics. Copy a joke you saw in another webcomic, or complain about something personal.
Can’t wait for this exact webcomic to be made by a bird that’s seen how we act on TikTok
Relatable. Birds are suddenly really interesting in your 30s.
I’m in my sixties and still don’t care about birds. Conversely, I’ve started to really enjoy killing rats though
Lol the fuck is wrong with you
They probably went crazy from an intense rat infestation. That’s probably hard.
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Well, that’s a hobby. Can’t blame you for that.
That’s because at some point in your life you realise that birds are just tiny dinosaurs.
I recently download an app that uses AI to identify bird calls.
Merlin Bird ID
Merlin is amazing. I heard birds outside my new apartment and thought of them as nice background noise. Within days of installing Merlin, I could tell sparrows, cardinals and robins apart without seeing them. Whenever I heard a new bird, I’d grab my phone and open Merlin.
One day it sounded like a robin and a cardinal were having and argument while both simultaneously having a stroke. Merlin figured out it was a catbird, a relative of the mockingbird that learns the songs of other birds then strings pieces of them together in a disorganized song to impress the ladies. Basically, the male catbird who can sing the weirdest songs using the most species signals that he has “been around” for enough seasons to learn all those songs and therefore must have good genes the females want to pass on. It’s mind blowing to learn all this about things that are going on outside your window.
I’ve been wanting to give this a try. It uses the same AI as Merlin but runs on a raspberryPI.
Damn and I use PlantNet to ID plants and trees. We really are living in the future…
Inaturalist is my goto
By Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Interesting! Downloading this.
It’s pretty great, there’s also Cornell’s companion citizen science app called eBird that you can use to count birds around you which is useful to ornithologists to track bird population density and migration patterns!
Bro that shit is insanely good.
I got so many good pictures thank to that app
I love how birds are named. Look Debbie, it’s a Coloredpart Sounditmakes.
I love my Tits
Black cap,blue,long tailed tits,great tits I love em
Oddly enough, other than the “part” thing, the Grey go-away-bird follows that formula. Not so much with the sad flycatcher (who’ll be alright, he just needs to process it all), the little bustard or the drab seedeater , who was clearly named by a dude who hates birds 😂
“Drab Seedeater” really was named by an ornithologist who was just god damned done that day, huh?
🤣🤣🤣
Today I totally realized this. Thank you
My favorite of this pattern has to be the ruby throated hummingbird.
Birds aren’t real.
I know it’s the entire point, and “lol u mad,” etc., but boy do I hate this meme.
What can I say? I am a creature of the interwebs. BTW, I saw someone wearing this on a T shirt recently.
I don’t begrudge anybody taking weird stances for the troll of it… But i think back to how the flat earth movement started out the same way. Now it’s populated with a bunch of psychos killing themselves in homemade rockets, talking about how nasa is a conspiracy…
Yeah, exactly. This is why I get annoyed when people say it’s “harmless fun” when talking about homeopathy, or astrology or whatever. All pseudoscience is dangerous to society for the exact reason you just laid out. It promotes magical thinking over critical thinking, and next thing you know, you’ve got people buying 100% into shit that has been continuously disproven over and over for hundreds of years.
Every adult human should be required to read, A Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. He does a much better job than I ever could at explaining why this is an issue.
The “Invisible Dragon in my Garage” is one of my favorite essays in the book, and played a huge role in influencing how I went about questioning, and ultimately leaving, the faith I was raised in. You can find the entirety of that essay if you search his name and the title of the essay. It’s not very long, but boy did he have a way of putting things into words that could just make things click.
Ooh, I haven’t read that book in like 20 years, I should dust it off again.
“The hole in the soul.” Plenty of people have a need to escape reality. Some people look to drugs or alcohol or sex or gambling. Others find their happiness in a belief that makes them smarter and braver than anyone else.
what kind of mad being puts tweets on a tshirt
I only report, I don’t judge
Wait till the “shoes fell off” meme hits lemmy
Do they know it though?
They’re all like “humans aren’t a real thing anyway”…
Sometimes when you look at pigeons they look back
How dare they! I gave grain to their fucking mothers!
My wife got me birds of Europe last year because I once mentioned it’s a neat book (my parents have it). Next thing I know I buy some binoculars for birdwatching and started tracking the birds that visit my garden. It’s not a spectacular list but I am proud of it because I used the book to identify the birds and got it confirmed with birdnet. The list: house sparrow, blackbird, goldfinch, swift, common house martin, common linnet, greenfinch and blue tits. Edit: and wood doves
I love this list! OP, go out hiking in the spring and see some more. It’s incredible to experience.
My cousin at 31 years old said this weekend, “I know I’m getting old because I was sitting on a swing at a friends and thought to myself ‘This would be a great spot to watch birds from’.”
No shit. This happened to me this year. A bird crossed my path while I was running and I had to double take because it was so cool looking. Now I look forward because I see him pretty often now. Ever since I check birds out all the time now
So Lemmy believes in birds?
Sorry Jesse Case, I think I must have been born old. I’ve always noticed birds, if I see or hear a species I can’t recognise, especially if near where I live, I must id it to restore my inner peace. I’m yet to see this change as I age
This is me.
I love watching the crested pigeons and turtle doves, and trying to understand their culture.
Plane watching is basically birdwatching for nerds.
I’m close to YUL and often check flightradar24 ☺️
I live under SFO and wrote an Alexa app where I can ask what plane that is, and it tells me the plane and where it came from
Can I have it?
No
Pretty much
I recently found out that a monthly pass on my city’s transit system, which I have, is exempt from the extra charge when going to the airport (YVR), so hell yeah I’m taking advantage of that! They have two really cool observation areas outside security where you can see the gates and runway.
My grandma got me into birding when I was a young child. My friends always text me pictures of birds like it’s a quiz. Maybe this means they’ll start to catch up.
