Your relation to birds

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Birds are just okay to me. But I'm afraid of my mom's parrot, Delilah. Sometimes she tries to bite me when I walk past her cage.

I have a strong fascination with certain birds. For example I am very interested in corvids and smaller birds such as parrotlets, but i strongly dislike chickens. I actually tried to rescue a young crow chick once after its nest was destroyed but my father refused to let me help it. The poor bird's wing was broken and he made me leave it in the fallen branches to die.

I take note of them/appreciate them, but I don't have a special interest in birds.

Since I do participate in some wind sports, and am interested in various sciences & maths that apply to their flight and movement patterns, I tend to watch them with a bit of a different eye for certain details.

They are quite a symbol of freedom.. I think just about anyone could be mesmerized watching certain birds in flight.

My relation to birds is that we're both bilaterally-symmetrical endothermic ophistikont deuterostome coleomate chordate tetrapods. Just kidding (sort of)

I have 6 chickens. They spectacularly stupid, but endearing animals. Yes, I like them.

i very much like all birds.
here is me with my kookaburras before i was forced to move away from where i lived by the roads and environment council. (the saddest event in my life). my narrative is not good as i talk to them like babies.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlTo7y2S-gQ&list=UUpB1H594Ek2H_hWBxJ7ja7g&index=61[/youtube]
i loved them so much but i had to go because i was forced move out because a road was going to be built through my home.

I have a green-cheeked conure I'm incredibly attached to.

WOW, it's great that they are so tame. When I lived in the southern part of the USA, there was a group of Black-Crowned Night Herons (nycticorax nycticorax) which I would feed by hand much like you do with those kookaburras. I would catch small fish with nets from the local beaches and leave them in buckets for the birds to eat at their leisure.

I think birds are beautiful! One of my special interests is coins and numismatics, and I have to say the most beautiful types of stamps and coins I've seen have birds on them.

That being said, I probably wouldn't want one as a pet - I'm more of a dog person to be honest

That's so sad. I would be haunted by that memory. Crows are fascinating to me. I'd love to have one, but only if it was rescued.

I am a city kid but where I work is out a more wooded area. I had never seen do many different kinds of birds before. When I was little, it was pigeons, robins, mockingbirds and blue jays. I could go on and on but it's too early in the morning. My thoughts won't settle down. They are like one of those huge migratory flocks that settle in trees and all jabber at once.

i currently have an australian magpie who comes inside my house because he trusts me. at first, he was like any other magpie, but now, he flutters in front of the window in my computer room, and i open my door to the outside to show him that i am going to get some food for him, and he comes inside while i retrieve the parmesan cheese from my fridge to feed to him. he loves shredded parmesan cheese.
i could feed him inside my house, but his girlfriend is not brave enough to come inside, and i do not want to deprive her of the cheese, so i always sprinkle it on my verandah outside so she can have some too.

i find it very heartening that australian magpies mate for life, and they are a very beautiful couple, but she is timid (for now). he often gets in my way as i try to walk outside to sprinkle the cheese on my verandah, and he trusts me to not step on him even though i am about 250 times heavier than he is.

i am looking at other properties to buy and move to (like 500 acre properties), but i can not leave those 2 lovely birds.
he talks to me inside my house and he has a beautiful warble (i have not recorded it yet), but here is a youtube video of an australian magpie talking. it is a very complex set of sounds and i feel blessed that he tries to talk to me (even though i do not know what he is trying to say)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYEYc8Ge3nw[/youtube]

my magpie talks to me in this way when he is inside my house and he looks directly at me when he talks this way. i wish i could talk back to him in his language.

a normal day at my house before i was kicked out by the government,
birds were my primary friends.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEoMEq8pLzc&list=UUpB1H594Ek2H_hWBxJ7ja7g[/youtube]

I like this video a lot.

I lived once in a room with a balcony attached to the room and two Pigeons came to live at that balcony.
My word for Pigeon is "Doivo" and I called them both Doivo.
I gave them food and later could touch them, but people called me "mad", as they called the Doivos "flying rats" and that "I am mad not to get rid of them", but I do not see a similarity between a rat and a bird and I never saw a rat flying.
One day there were two eggs.
And later two little Doivos came out of the eggs and they became big Doivos and I watched them growing up and learning to fly and I gave hem food as well.
But then I had to leave that place and I don't know if the people who lived there after me took care of them.

b9, I am sorry you were forced to move out and had to leave your kookaburras.

That warble is a very pleasant sound, I could listen to that for hours. This relationship to birds you have is really something special b9. I know that feeling too, used to want to talk to my cat the same way all the time.

Noisy flying rats as far as I'm concerned.

Aww. There was once a nest on the building across from where I used to live, and the resident dove laid eggs. Don't know if they ever hatched, though.

"Flying rats"? Even if that were the case, I like rats too.