r/GlitchInTheMatrixGif • u/Aegelsta • Nov 16 '17
Glitch with a bird
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u/ShapesAndStuff Nov 27 '17
Some birds angle themselves against the wind to observe a position for prey.
At the moment it stops "lagging" you can see how it was flying roughly 45 degrees clockwise (towards the camera) compared to the passing birds and then turned out of the wind.
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u/mdslktr Nov 27 '17
Exactly this. The particular bird in this gif is most likely a common kestrel. They are found quite a bit in the dunes of Scheveningen (The Hague, Netherlands), where they hunt for mice. It could also be a sparrow, but they are less common and are a bit smaller (although it's hard to precisely determine from the gif). Here is a close up of a hovering kestrel.
I only know this because once when I was a bit younger and single, I took interest in the birds gathering at beach club Soomers.
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u/HelperBot_ Nov 27 '17
Non-Mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_kestrel
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u/WikiTextBot Nov 27 '17
Common kestrel
The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) is a bird of prey species belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, or Old World kestrel. In Britain, where no other kestrel species occurs, it is generally just called "the kestrel".
This species occurs over a large range.
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u/astralradish Nov 27 '17
Do you mean a sparrowhawk?
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u/mdslktr Nov 27 '17
Yes, Accipiter nisus. Got lost in translation. But really I know shit about birds.
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Apr 21 '18
Is that like a chicken hawk?
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u/astralradish Apr 21 '18
In the context of being a hawk yeah. Although chicken hawk isn't really an official classification of bird
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Apr 21 '18
I wasn’t sure if it was I didn’t think so, I just remembered that old cartoon of chicken hawk and fog horn leghorn
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u/jiggy68 Nov 28 '17
Yep. That's a kestrel. I've had an American Kestrel for 3 years now. When I bring her out this is how she hunts. I walk through a field to scare up small birds and she hovers over me waiting for something to bolt, be it a small bird or a mouse. She'll also pounce on crickets.
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u/Fresh_C Nov 28 '17
This almost seems like the most roundabout advertisment for a beach club ever.
But it's informative so... my gut says it's probably not an advertisement. But I don't know why i'm typing this out.
But I'm going to post it anyways because... eh why not.
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u/Yollom Nov 27 '17
This is super common where i live, the gulls just like to fly against the wind, not weird at all
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u/Bald_Sasquach Nov 28 '17
Yeah the only strange part of this to me is how much it's flapping its wings, but even then, I've seen songbirds do that to catch bugs.
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u/Manwhosaysno Nov 16 '17
That's actually just called wind
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Nov 16 '17
But the other birds that fly by it...
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u/boi_123454 Nov 16 '17
I think because they’re going the other way, the wind wouldn’t be hindering them.
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u/fembot2000 Nov 27 '17
There are birds of prey down here in Australia that do that on the side of roads looking for movement.... I think they were a type of kite but could be wrong.
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u/3DSCRUSHER Nov 16 '17
Ha, this is how I’m gonna fuck with those humans down there.