Birds This Bird Looks Pure Evil

[JimOfOakCreek]

Common Grackle, we have to respect even birds that we don’t like.

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[Grumps]

Common Grackle, we have to respect even birds that we don’t like.

I quite like grackles. Not sure what species it was that I saw in Mexico.

They remind me of corvids (crows, etc.) in the UK.

 

[Dean Wilson]

I love the feet... they look so, mechanical, something that, in a Science Fiction movie would reach through the bulkhead into the docking bay and pull your body from the cockpit of your relic of a starfighter, pulling the helmet from your spacesuit hold your head in its beak then squeezing until a crunching POP echoes throughout the ship.

How's that for evil?

 

[David Berry]

Cute bird!

 

[JimOfOakCreek]

I love the feet... they look so, mechanical, something that, in a Science Fiction movie would reach through the bulkhead into the docking bay and pull your body from the cockpit of your relic of a starfighter, pulling the helmet from your spacesuit hold your head in its beak then squeezing until a crunching POP echoes throughout the ship.

How's that for evil?

Gruesome, I’ll never get that image out of my head.

 

[jcass]

I like Grackles too, though they're eating me out of house and home this time of year. They have the Angry Bird eyes, a sleek shape, and beautifully iridescent colors in good light.

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[Grumps]

I like Grackles too, though they're eating me out of house and home this time of year. They have the Angry Bird eyes, a sleek shape, and beautifully iridescent colors in good light.

I do like a bit of animal behaviour!

(Some sciency stuff behind colouration, from Cornell

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/how-birds-make-colorful-feathers/

Hopefully I'm not stating the totally obvious.)

Going back to the feet. Well, I suppose they look a bit like dinosaur feet. (Thankfully the dinosaurs shrunk).

 

[glosardo]

I love the feet... they look so, mechanical, something that, in a Science Fiction movie would reach through the bulkhead into the docking bay and pull your body from the cockpit of your relic of a starfighter, pulling the helmet from your spacesuit hold your head in its beak then squeezing until a crunching POP echoes throughout the ship.

How's that for evil?

Dean, I think you've been reading too many books from the Alien franchise

 

[glosardo]

Common Grackle, we have to respect even birds that we don’t like.

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For those of you who are old enough to remember the '70s movie "Young Frankenstein": Is it just me or does this bird resemble the late comedian Marty Feldman? Or is my nerditus acting up again?

 

[Grumps]

For those of you who are old enough to remember the '70s movie "Young Frankenstein": Is it just me or does this bird resemble the late comedian Marty Feldman? Or is my nerditus acting up again?

I'd have to see both eyes before I made a judgement call on that.