Getting the corvids to recycle for us
Terrifyingly smart birds will gather and exchange bottle caps and pop cans for treats.
Yes, the video is recycled glass cock, but it's worth another outing - and here's the full blurb and maker details:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:4601125
Ticks my engineering and beardy hippy boxes both!
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Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 14:03,
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The greatest trick the Australian magpie ever pulled
was convincing the world it was a corvid.
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Beg pardon, didn't spot it was a Ozzie.
Still, other experiments with the same tech have been done with real corvids in Japan. Those tengu know their stuff.
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Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Wed 25 Nov 2020, 17:22,
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yeah, that not an australian magpie
to be honest, I wouldn't expect to see too many Australian magpies in a Göteborg backyard, where this was filmed. What you have there is is a Eurasian Magpie, (Pika Pika) which though having broadly similar feather colouring, is a different species, genus, and indeed, family of birds.
Australian maggies are bigger, have evil red eyes, and delight in raking the eyes of passing cyclists with their talons
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 26 Nov 2020, 6:54,
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My apologies, I clicked the link and saw a NZ domain listed.
It does bear a passing resemblance to the flying demon that raked my helmet in Akaroa once when I was cycling, though.
I think you'll find the Eurasian Magpie's binomial name is Pica pica though.
lol helmet
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