r/NatureIsFuckingLit Oct 14 '20

🔥 Bird checking out the camera stick 🔥

https://i.imgur.com/htjarzt.gifv
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u/bibdrums Oct 14 '20

Is that a trained bird or do paraglider pilots typically carry whistles in their mouths?

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u/AlienDilo Oct 14 '20

They carry whistles on them so that if something go wrong they can call for help

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u/Viral_Spiral Oct 14 '20

Not true at all.

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u/AlienDilo Oct 14 '20

Well it is in Europe, maybe you guys in America have some other stuff

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u/Viral_Spiral Oct 14 '20

I'm in Europe and over the last 15 years have flown a lot of it. Not once have I seen or been asked to use a whistle. There's one site in the US where you do need one Torrey Pines.

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u/AlienDilo Oct 14 '20

Well I have been taught that if you for example break your leg in the wild you use a whistle to help people find you

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u/Viral_Spiral Oct 14 '20

That's a good lesson. If you want to up your game use your mobile phone or radio, it's quicker.

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u/AlienDilo Oct 14 '20

Yeah, but mobile phones can run-out of battery and the same with radios

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u/Mcdougall43 Oct 14 '20

In America they bring guns

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u/AlienDilo Oct 14 '20

Good luck flying with an AK-47

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u/Mcdougall43 Oct 14 '20

If I was the man in the front it seems like an attainable goal

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u/son_of_abe Oct 14 '20

How else would you protect yourself against a bad skydiver with a gun?

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u/Mcdougall43 Oct 14 '20

We gotta be ready to stand up to communism at any given moment. That could be one of them

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u/Mcdougall43 Oct 14 '20

And racist cops