Cujo, a 20 year old black vulture with the American Eagle Foundation! Vultures can consume produce outside of carrion, with personal favourites, but she is a big fan of watermelon.
Woohoo my foot is healing, can almost walk normally now. It really freaked me out when it was the same or maybe worse on the second day after the injury. Must have just been a sprain 💪
up to one billion birds in the us alone die of window collisions annually. if you support bird conservation, campaigning against wind farms should not be your first action.
This is why you should consider getting anti-collision uv stickers for your home. It’s cute and it works!
UV stickers are actually not recommended because many birds cannot actually see UV light (particularly nocturnal species) and they are least effective in the morning when most collisions occur.
In short, the best thing you can do is use visual cues on the outside of the window that are spaced no more than 5 cm (2 inches) apart, or completely coverings such as screens.
[ID 1: a simple graphic reading: “More Windows Kill Birds than Wind Turbines”. Below is a stylized logo of a bird.
ID 2: Two photos of the “WindowAlert” product, with an alleged visual of “what we see” versus “what birds see,” where the stickers are more visible in the latter. End ID.]
Also, if you’re even a little concerned about wind turbines or building glass, you absolutely should be keeping your cats inside, regardless of whether they seem like a “dangerous hunter” to you or not.
[ID: a bar graph of estimated bird mortalities (in millions) per individual hazard, in the US in 2017. “Wind Turbines” are the lowest mortality hazard listed, at 0.23 million, with mortalities increasing through oil pits, electrocution, communication towers, electrical lines, and poison (insecticide and pesticide). The highest-ranking hazards are “Vehicles” at 214 million, “Building Glass” at 599 million, and “Feral & Domestic Cats” at 2400 million. End ID.]
Building glass kills 2,500 times more birds than wind turbines. Cats kill 10,000 times more birds than wind turbines. I knew the wind turbine thing was overblown, and presumably oil industry propaganda, but the order of magnitude to which it’s overblown in comparison to hazards less often discussed is just staggering, and even higher than I would’ve ever guessed.
FALIN KEEPS HER EYES CLOSED BECAUSE SHES NEARSIGHTED BUT WHEN SHE BECOMES A CHIMERA SHE OPENS HER EYES
So somewhere else, it’s mentioned that one of the things Marcille was researching at the magic school was new kinds of healing magic. So looking at the whole thing from a certain angle, she’s invented the world’s least efficient corrective eye surgery.
Folks in camp love Kelly’s fortified wine on account of it being cheap and high percentage, and the stuff is so funny. Trashiest looking wine on earth.
Comes in a carton like juice. The graphic design of it all. “With a touch of Old Blarney”. It tastes thick and syrupy and of concord grapes. Disgustingly sweet. It isn’t actually from Ireland despite all the branding. But goddamn it’s cheap and can get a tree planter silly.
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