Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world gedaliyah @lemmy.world 5mo ago

Hopping along like a little bouncing ball

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eBirb
- Fuck I wanna hug that guy so hard.
  
  Region-locked to all across Asia around 45°N ('stans, Mongolia) and in spots all over Europe, especially Poland. A very interesting range, including the Mediterranean coast and Himalayas.
  
  Good luck taming one, though. Also, only males are “bearded”.
- ebird.org is everything I wanted from twitter and more!
- Mathematicians and physicists like this.
  
  Nah, too much air
- Chorb
careful, you might start validating physicists. "Assume for the sake of simplicity that the bird is a sphere"
- “Assume a spherical bird in a frictionless vacuum”
  
  Can we assume that all vacuums are frictionless? Makes the math easier.
Borb
They are in their own taxonomic family but that still does not stop people from calling them “bearded tits”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_reedling
- We Brits like to use the original name:
  
  https://www.bto.org/understanding-birds/birdfacts/bearded-tit
  
  https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bearded-tit
  
  Big fan of tits.
  
  My favorite r/CasualUK video: Tit in a tight spot + Pussy surprise (NSFW?!)
Please tell me it flies like a balloon.
- It flies like a balloon.
  
  Thank you for your service
Would you say it looks.... angry?
I read this in John Oliver's voice
This bird looks like it came straight out of angry birds
One time I was in a bird enclosure at a zoo and there was this Asian pigeon in there which looked like a short, fat peacock (but without the long tail). It was by far my favorite thing in there because of how squat and round it was.
Oh lawd he roun
Me, a physics educator: “Interesting!” takes note
Rotund.
This bird is in a black metal band
An actual Pokemon
Am I the only one thinking it looks like Dr robotnik?
https://lemmy.world/post/11444745
What a beautifully rotund creature
Known as a Bearded Tit round these parts.
Nonsense, these three are clearly more spherical (Eagle owl)
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AC9BAX/eagle-owl-eggs-in-nest-three-bubu-bubo-spain-AC9BAX.jpg

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