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(DIR) Post #AUEhDm1PBoqfxQ14AC by BarrenPlanet@c.im
2023-04-02T08:36:03Z
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It never ceases to amuse me how, even when they have a plentiful food source such as a bird feeder, starlings will still squabble over it.Basically, they're the capitalists of the bird kingdom.
(DIR) Post #AUElJEXeyldJfxxi5Y by Pellitory@c.im
2023-04-02T09:21:51Z
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@BarrenPlanet Crows are more like socialists - one finds food and calls to all the others but thirty seconds later they've split into factions and started arguing with each other.
(DIR) Post #AUEldrCyva3HOD7kvY by CrazyMyra@mastodon.social
2023-04-02T09:25:34Z
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@BarrenPlanet They're bossy little beasts
(DIR) Post #AUEmFDl637T22gthdw by BarrenPlanet@c.im
2023-04-02T09:32:20Z
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@Pellitory I've seen jackdaws working together to access food. We were frustrated by how the smaller birds weren't getting their fair share of food during a cold winter, so we purchased a feeder with an outer mesh through which only the smaller birds could fit. Corvids can always find alternative food sources, after all - they're wicked smart.But the jackdaws weren't deterred! They took it in turns to hang off the bottom of the feeder and swing on it, scattering the seeds onto the ground for the others. No squabbling, just a coordinated, collective effort. Very impressive.
(DIR) Post #AUEmfeAEUsqRSzFuEa by BarrenPlanet@c.im
2023-04-02T09:37:07Z
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@CrazyMyra Aren't they just! Very focussed on preserving their social hierarchies.A bit like us, when you think about it...
(DIR) Post #AUEpFO3y2OcHraUkUK by chris@abraham.su
2023-04-02T10:05:59Z
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@BarrenPlanetAll animals are capitalists
(DIR) Post #AUF1CHOnYa3JmCWUpk by Pellitory@c.im
2023-04-02T12:19:53Z
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@BarrenPlanet Lol, they're brilliant and I love them. Last summer was an arms race in our garden; like you the aim with the bird feeders was always to feed the small birds. The crows and blackbirds got leftover pasta, apples, bread (I know) and whatever else was going. I'd long given up on mesh peanut feeders, the crows just peck their way through the wire. Likewise seed feeders, they either figured out how to get the top of or they managed to tip out the contents. So I switched to suet balls and bought a squirrel-proof steel feeder and that worked - the crows can't open it, they can't reach through it, they can't tip out the feed. But then rats figured out they could run up the tree and out onto the branch where the feeder was hanging...I'd come out in the morning to top up the feeder and there'd be a fat rat squatting INSIDE the bloody thing and another half dozen of them on the ground picking up the bits that were falling out. Eventually I had to string a thin wire between two trees and hang the feeder there. Now neither crow nor rat could serve themselves. Then the starlings came...
(DIR) Post #AUF2asmALFuUbRkTA0 by BarrenPlanet@c.im
2023-04-02T12:35:32Z
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@Pellitory 🤣😂🤣The struggle is real!