Birds in the Garden

Pudding McTwinkle said:
Migrate.
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"Hibernation is when animals sleep through the coldest weather, living out of their fat storage;using minimum energy. Migration happens when some animals move to warmer places when the coldest weather arrives"
We are both correct
 
Fuma said:
"Hibernation is when animals sleep through the coldest weather, living out of their fat storage;using minimum energy. Migration happens when some animals move to warmer places when the coldest weather arrives"
We are both correct
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Just one bird species is known to fully hibernate: the common poorwill, a North American nightjar species. This was described by scientists in 1946 when an individual was found in a Californian cave with a body temperature of 5°C. There are more than 11 000 bird species on earth... 1 in +11 000
 
So my mom has always been a huge birdwatcher. While living at home as a kid I actively joined in but then kind of lost it as a hobby once I left home. Recently it has been interesting me a lot again and I finally for my last birthday asked for a better set of binoculars which I got and money towards a decent birding app as half the issue is I never have a bird book on me or a way to record sightings (a key part of the enjoyment for me for some reason).

Anyways I am using Roberts Birds 2 app on Android. Not a perfect app but decent and it seems to be recording my sightings correctly. Cost R500 which was steep but if you are semi serious about the hobby I think it is worth it. Still figuring out how it all works. What it seems to lack which would be a really great feature is a custom bird list that you can set to limit to birds that are possible to see in that area, or say within 100km to be safe using your location. Having to individually click on each bird map to see if it is even an option is painful and the map does not even include any province or city lines so hard to even tell sometimes if the bird is in the area you are. Still a lot better than the physical book by virtue of just being available and searchable.

I am also having to get used to the new naming conventions. I see a lot of birds have changed names since I was a kid. I asked my mom about that and she said the USA has by far the biggest birding community so at some point SA aligned our naming conventions with them. So no more crowned or blacksmith plover, its now a lapwing as an example. The Olive thrush that regularly visits my garden is now called a Karoo thrush, despite us being nowhere near the Karoo.
 
Pudding McTwinkle said:
Just one bird species is known to fully hibernate: the common poorwill, a North American nightjar species. This was described by scientists in 1946 when an individual was found in a Californian cave with a body temperature of 5°C. There are more than 11 000 bird species on earth... 1 in +11 000
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I was referring to that 1 bird. Ok Ok. You win.
 
Cius said:
So my mom has always been a huge birdwatcher. While living at home as a kid I actively joined in but then kind of lost it as a hobby once I left home. Recently it has been interesting me a lot again and I finally for my last birthday asked for a better set of binoculars which I got and money towards a decent birding app as half the issue is I never have a bird book on me or a way to record sightings (a key part of the enjoyment for me for some reason).

Anyways I am using Roberts Birds 2 app on Android. Not a perfect app but decent and it seems to be recording my sightings correctly. Cost R500 which was steep but if you are semi serious about the hobby I think it is worth it. Still figuring out how it all works. What it seems to lack which would be a really great feature is a custom bird list that you can set to limit to birds that are possible to see in that area, or say within 100km to be safe using your location. Having to individually click on each bird map to see if it is even an option is painful and the map does not even include any province or city lines so hard to even tell sometimes if the bird is in the area you are. Still a lot better than the physical book by virtue of just being available and searchable.

I am also having to get used to the new naming conventions. I see a lot of birds have changed names since I was a kid. I asked my mom about that and she said the USA has by far the biggest birding community so at some point SA aligned our naming conventions with them. So no more crowned or blacksmith plover, its now a lapwing as an example. The Olive thrush that regularly visits my garden is now called a Karoo thrush, despite us being nowhere near the Karoo.
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Olive thrush and karoo thrush are 2 very different birds ,colours are different as are the eye rings,beaks and chest bars ,most cannot tell them apart .please post a pic the roberts you got that out of .you may have read it as the same species but there are dozens of sub species ,ie finch about 286 different types ,mousebirds only 6 ,doves plenty .
 
@soulie do owls eat chicken feet :ROFL:

The one that hangs around here absolutely LOVES lamb ribs but they're expensive so I wondered what's cheap that I can cook for him. Loves him a chicken carcass too.

He only gets a few bones every 3 to 4 days - don't want to spoil him.
 
maumau said:
@soulie do owls eat chicken feet :ROFL:

The one that hangs around here absolutely LOVES lamb ribs but they're expensive so I wondered what's cheap that I can cook for him. Loves him a chicken carcass too.

He only gets a few bones every 3 to 4 days - don't want to spoil him.
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Raw chicken hearts
 
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