VickiNumbers Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-21 Age : 56 Location : Denver, CO, United States My Birds : Allie ~ Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure
Mickey ~ Turquoise Green Cheek Conure
Sam ~ Blue Front Amazon
Caesar ~ Bronze Wing Pionus (actually my HUSBAND's bird *grin*)
Mack ~ Lutino Cockatiel
Forté and Duncan ~ Budgerigars
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| Subject: Magpies.. Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:13 am | |
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patdbunny Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18 Age : 53 Location : San Diego County, California Posts : 2083
| Subject: Re: Magpies.. Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:03 pm | |
| There are also cleaner fish and cleaner shrimp. Apparently there's some unwritten code that even highly carnivorous fish won't eat a cleaner fish or shrimp. That always fascinated me - why they don't eat the cleaners.
Those magpies are CUTE! You need to raid a nest and send me a baby!
Oxpeckers. . . that's a funny name. | |
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VickiNumbers Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-21 Age : 56 Location : Denver, CO, United States My Birds : Allie ~ Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure
Mickey ~ Turquoise Green Cheek Conure
Sam ~ Blue Front Amazon
Caesar ~ Bronze Wing Pionus (actually my HUSBAND's bird *grin*)
Mack ~ Lutino Cockatiel
Forté and Duncan ~ Budgerigars
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| Subject: Re: Magpies.. Wed Mar 07, 2012 7:19 pm | |
| Actually they're not that cute. They're like the pigeons of the mountains - they're into everything. In Rocky Mountain National Park, they're all over the campgrounds and popular picnic sites scavenging everything they can find. You have to run them off like pigeons at Disneyland and Sea World, but they're bigger and have a crow-ish look to them.
They're a bit annoying actually. Did I already say that?
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patdbunny Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18 Age : 53 Location : San Diego County, California Posts : 2083
| Subject: Re: Magpies.. Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:20 pm | |
| Sounds like seagulls at the beach. Love watching the seagulls scope out the tourists. As soon as tourists leave their snacks the gulls are tearing into it. Almost seem like the gulls know who's local and who are good victims. I guess locals cover their food more effectively. | |
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RogerP Scarlet Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-19 Age : 56 Location : Edmonton, Alberta, Canada My Birds : ~Merlin - Maroon Bellied Conure
(Hatchdate May 15, 2010)
~Arthur - Red Bellied Parrot
(Hatchdate January 7, 2009, rescued October 7, 2011)
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| Subject: Re: Magpies.. Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:40 am | |
| They are pretty looking birds but are not very nice birds. Besides being scavengers they are also well known for bullying other birds and stealing eggs. | |
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