Welcome to /c/birding, a community for people who like birds, birdwatching and birding in general! Feel free to post your birding photos or just photos of birds you found in general, but please follow the rules as outlined below.
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This should go without saying, but please be nice to one another. No petty insults, no bigotry, no harassment, hate speech,nothing of that sort! Depending on the severity, you'll either only get your comment removed and a warning or your comment will be removed and you will be banned from /c/birding.
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This is a community for posting content of birds, nothing else. Please keep the posts related to birding or birds in general.
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When posting photos or videos that you did not take, please always credit the original photographer! Link to the original post on social media as well, if there is one.
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Absolutely no AI-generated content is allowed! I know it has become quite difficult to tell whether or not something is AI-generated or not, but please make sure that whatever you post is not AI-generated. If it is, your post will be removed. If you continously post AI-generated content, you'll be banned from /c/birding (but it's obviously okay if you post AI-generated stuff once or twice without knowing you did so).
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Please provide rough information location, if possible. This is a more loosely-enforced rule, especially because it is sometimes not possible to provide a location. But if you post a photo you took yourself, please provide a rough location and date of the sighting.
I posted a new comment with 3 article links (with some neat pics!) with some info that may fill us in on what could have happened based on other similar cases. You may want to give those a read.
I put it up in a new comment so others have a good chance to see it too, so I'm replying here so you get a notification.
That's awesome. Napoleon complex in birds. I noted the author encouraged us not to anthropomorphize the birds, and yet interspecies compassion has been documented, even predator to prey. Birds are incredibly intelligent, and no doubt, instinct probably did play a large role; and also acknowledge that a great part of intellectual development also includes emotional intelligence. Our current generations may not know. If our species lasts long enough, future generations may.
Thanks for specifically letting me know. I appreciate it very much.
Bird have been around much longer than we have, 150,000,000 vs >200,000, so they have had time to learn and work through more than we could ever dream. We would barely recognize life 100-200 years ago, and who can say we're we'll be in another few hundred. We could be nurturing foster babies from other worlds and learning who knows what from them! 😁
You are one of my frequent commenters, so I need to foster that as well!
I enjoy thoughtful posts. You make them. Thank you.