Do birds ever get tired?
There is a rather stupid bright red cardinal that has been trying to fly against my front window for three hours. (I imagine he sees a reflection in the window glass and is trying to attack the image he sees).
Obviously he has had no success. Do they every get tired? I’m assuming that birds are too stupid to ‘learn’ about futility.
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They do, and they can also get injured doing things like flying against windows. If you want to save the bird, put something on the outside or inside of the window, like a sticker, so he doesn’t continue.
@jca2 I have no interested in helping him. Let him bash himself to death. This must be a particularly stupid bird.
I have dozens of birds in my yard, and this idiot is the only one that does this. In my mind, he is (from an evolutionary point of view) NOT worth continuing that species.
I watched a bird get tired and fall into the ocean, because they built a nest on a ship, while in port.
Once the ship leaves port, the birds fly around the ship and land back on it, but unfortunately 1 bird flew too far away and was exhausted trying to catch up (we were probably doing 20 knots).
@elbanditoroso Well, that tells me a bit more about your morals, values and outlook on life.
*note to self – doesn’t care about seemingly insignificant life. Makes judgements on what’s insignificant.
@smudges I step on spiders as well. And I am good at killing mosquitos.
Oh, I walk on the grass in front of my house as well.
At the junior high I went to, there were pyracantha bushes in between each wing. When they bore fruit, the birds would come and eat the berries, which had fermented. The birds would then be drunk and fly into windows until they were exhausted and fell to the ground.
Birds that fly through open windows and get stuck in a building will do the same thing, keep on flying around until exhausted.
Of course. Bird get tired of flying just like humans do.
They need to fuel and rest for all they journeys, especially during migrations.
I think they do, but they seem to have a lot of stamina. When birds fly in formation in flocks they trade places being at the front middle and back. The front has more wind resistance and more work, the back they are “drafting” so to speak.
I too had a dumb cardinal banging on my window. I put some blue painter’s tape across the window in a few places and he eventually figured it out and flew away.
The question makes me think of hummingbirds. With their tiny bodies where do they get the energy for the wings? They’re never gliding, they beat the air constantly.
Astonishingly, the hummingbirds I see in Wisconsin and the Michigan Upper Peninsula in May migrated from the American south since March.
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They can get tired.
Oh, you edgelord you
Maybe it got tired.
Tired of your shit. It’s trying to get inside to get to you.
You must have wronged it in some way.
@Call_Me_Jay That’s why hummingbirds get all hopped up on sugar!
Hummingbirds will rest in a nearby tree or bush right after they feed.
24 hours letter. Stupid bird is back. He hasn’t learned a thing!
invite it in for some tea. and your reckoning.
@ragingloli
I let a bird build a nest on a wreath on my patio, and it raised a few birds and they eventually fly away.
And I swear I got in their good graces because I feel like they’re watching me when I leave the apartment.
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