(11-14-2021, 10:27 PM)BIAD Wrote: I can't see your second video (uploader not available in my country?!), but what intrigues me is the colour
of the beak you mentioned. In the UK, the usual bird with a black beak would be a raven. Did your sighting
give you any impression of being crow-like?
The beak appeared to be built heavy like a crow's beak, but was shorter in proportion to it's height, and had a slight hook at the business end rather than a point as a crow has, more in keeping with a hawk or vulture. I couldn't discern the legs, so I presume they were folded back along the body and black, blending in to the plumage.
I have both crows and ravens right around my house here. They keep the dead tidied up, and serve as an early warning system for me, so I'm happy to have them! Did you know they actually have a language, and have a different call for a "man" or a "bear", and even different vocalizations for "a man" and " a man with a gun"? They know the difference, and output the appropriate warning to their fellows. They can also be taught to speak English, like a parrot.
As an aside, and in reference to the possible leg color, mutations sometimes happen. When I was a teenager, we raised game chickens ("fightin' roosters"), and we had one hatch out with blue legs and 5 toes per foot - 3 forward, two rearward. It turned out to be a rooster, and within a couple years time, we had a whole barnyard full of blue-legged, five-toed chickens!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’