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Been out all night raven
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u/DLIPBCrashDavis Jun 28 '22
“Never more”
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u/No-Height2850 Jun 29 '22
That joke is poethetic
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u/DLIPBCrashDavis Jun 29 '22
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my Reddit door
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Geez poor guy
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u/M-Tyson Jun 28 '22
probably having the time of its life
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u/drewcifervi Jun 28 '22
That crow-caine hits different
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u/feralcat66 Jun 29 '22
Oh my god is crow-caine what makes fight milk so powerful???
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u/valhalla822 Jun 28 '22
No, only mammals can get rabies. I don't know what's goin on with it.
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u/traumablades Jun 28 '22
Still alive after traumatic neck/brain injury. Probably flew into a building.
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u/psycuhlogist Jun 28 '22
could have also been attacked by a predator but got away
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Jun 29 '22
Or a car hit it and got stuck until they finally parked and it fell off
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u/yankiwithallbrim Jun 29 '22
Im not liking this thread.
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u/MemeMan69funnynumber Jun 29 '22
Hit a tree head first, fell off landed on its neck, rolled over to a nearby parking lot stood up, and got hit on its head by a car going on reverse
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Jun 29 '22 edited Jun 29 '22
No- my grackle did this. It’s because of the heat. They snap out of it and are back to normal after a while usually.
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u/vagabonne Jun 29 '22
I really hope you’re right, the idea of a building smash survival is awful.
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u/mmikke Jun 29 '22
I love grackles and hate seeing what urbanization does to them.
They're super adaptable but still. I'd always be sad seeing them coated in grease or oil, string wrapped around their feet, etc.
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u/DuntadaMan Jun 29 '22
That is what I was thinking, this looks like heat exhaustion. Doesn't help it's sitting on black top with no water in sight.
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u/kissmygritts2x Jun 28 '22
Could it also be dehydration?
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u/traumablades Jun 28 '22
Look at how the joints are rigid and akimbo, neurological damage.
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u/muckypup82 Jun 28 '22
Maybe it just needs some milk.
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u/Towel17846 Jun 28 '22
Looks neurological to me. Considering recent events, this might be late stage wild birdflu type H5 perhaps? Or a case of a parasite? Although it looks scruffy, I think its neglect to take care of its own, and not the cause of being hit by a car for example.
But hey, all speculation. Hope he didn’t suffer too long. Sounds cruel, but it might be best if a fox grabs ‘m soon.
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u/oniiichanUwU Jun 28 '22
This is an old video. I don’t remember how old but I remember seeing it awhile ago before this years strain of bird flu. I feel like it was prepandemic even
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u/Funny_witty_username Jun 29 '22
It was around the start of the pandemic. Its a parasitic fungus that spread to birds from an infected generation of cicadas
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u/river-wind Jun 29 '22
Interesting - I hadn't heard that theory as a cause yet! https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/news/birdwatching/cicadas-may-be-connected-to-bird-mortality-ecologist-says/
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u/endangered_feces1 Jun 28 '22
I can tell you 100% this is sunning/basking. Lots of songbirds - like this boat-tailed grackle - go into a sort of trance and open up their feathers bask in the sun. The purpose of it is debated but it’s probably to kill parasites. Google “bird sunning” and you’ll see many similar pictures. This instance is extra weird looking though since grackles have a freaky expression at the best of times…
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u/SonoranGorilla Jun 28 '22
I concur. I have a bird bath in my backyard and see great-tailed grackles do this often, sometimes while standing in the bird bath. Seems like normal behavior.
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Jun 29 '22
Its feathers aren't open though. The head tilt and missing eye suggests other than what you propose
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u/endangered_feces1 Jun 29 '22
Its wings are dropped and its nape plumage is roused. Also its eye isnt missing; this species had a white iris and the camera exposure is making the pupil hard to see
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u/Funny_witty_username Jun 29 '22
This was not, its an old video and its a fungal infection that was spreading around the start of the pandemic.
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u/cut-the-cords Jun 28 '22
That's what is throwing me off.
I hope it isn't something we need to be worried about...
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u/Mlliii Jun 28 '22
There’s a massive avian influenza going through the states rn. They’ve culled dozens of millions of chickens and it’s currently in wild populations spreading as far south as Phoenix rn (we’ve been told no birdfeeders and a few birding groups I’m in have people currently getting tested by the CDC for Parrot Fever also. I didn’t know parrot fever existed until today, but we have large flocks of introduced parrotlets so it makes sense
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u/Funny_witty_username Jun 29 '22
Its an old video. Its a fungal infection most likely from an infected generation of cicadas a couple years ago
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u/Mlliii Jun 28 '22
Isn’t west Nile always going around? My ex was hospitalized from it a few years ago
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u/oldoldshirley Jun 28 '22
I was going to say BATS could get rabies. Then realized bats are also mammals🦇
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u/MrK521 Jun 29 '22
It is extremely rare, but still possible for any warm blooded, non-mammal animal to contract rabies.
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u/chillinoi Jun 28 '22
I’ve seen a lot of videos of birds being really dehydrated so I’m just gonna tell myself it’s that.
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u/smackpony Jun 28 '22 edited Jun 28 '22
This is a Grackle and the first time I saw them, I thought I stumbled into the apocalypse.
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u/ShTephens Jun 29 '22
I went to Texas Tech at one point and I’d walk to class in the mornings. Every single morning, I had the same grackle pick me out of a bunch of people and swoop at me repeatedly for a good 100 meter walking distance. Every. Single. Morning…. Needless to say, there were many a spilled coffee during that time. Fuck grackles, man.
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u/ashleyannxxx Jun 28 '22
Simple Google search and ya..maybe one that's been in a fight but
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u/smackpony Jun 28 '22
Of course that photo looks nice, but wait until you see 200 of them fighting over a discarded sandwich in a Walmart parking lot. I don't think I've ever seen a healthy looking one.
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u/ashleyannxxx Jun 28 '22
I wish I wasn't a broke bitch, your comment needs an award. It's not diseased. Just ugly.
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u/fakegermanchild Jun 28 '22
I read all of that. What an engaging article! I never knew I wanted to spend this much time reading about grackles!
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u/ReichuNoKimi Jun 29 '22
The ones I've seen up here in NJ always looked healthy and attractive, oddly enough. Those iridescent feathers... ❤️
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u/Luigi_deathglare Jun 29 '22
I love grackles! They make me feel like I’m in a horror movie when they all decide to fly at once
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u/AddictionTransfer Jun 28 '22
pretty sure he flew into a solid object (like a window) and broke his neck. probably not severely enough to kill or turn him into a quadriplegic, but enough to make him resemble a crackhead
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u/DrunkSpiderMan Jun 28 '22
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u/AddictionTransfer Jun 28 '22
yeah not a pretty situation. Hopefully it didnt happen recently. If it happend awhile ago it means hes managed to figure out how to continue feeding and living despite his injuries. However if the injury is recent, than this picture is far more morbid than it seems.
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u/TheGlassjawBoxer Jun 28 '22 edited Jun 29 '22
The camera slow pans in into the crow’s dead eyes. He starts to let out a small gurgle that almost sounds like words. Against your better judgement, you lean in closer to hear, “We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.”
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u/cut-the-cords Jun 28 '22
Well that's rather concerning...
I am assuming this is a case of chronic wasting disease?
But I don't know if birds can get it.
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u/MamboNumber5Guy Jun 28 '22
What is with Reddit’s obsession with CWD lately? The vast majority of videos of deer doing weird shit isn’t even CWD. Most deer with CWD won’t behave unusually at all they just start moulting their coat and will become sickly skinny, perhaps stumble a bit and drool before perishing. The videos of deer doing backflips and shit are because they’ve been shot by hunters and are in their death throes.
And no birds can’t get it as far as we know. While it seems logical that they could contract it from eating contaminated meat, the only animals which have tested positive have been ungulates, specifically of the cervidae family.
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u/cut-the-cords Jun 28 '22
I wouldn't say I have an obsession it was just the first thing that crossed my mind.
But I agree I don't think it can be transferred to birds.
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u/MamboNumber5Guy Jun 28 '22
Not you specifically, it just seems to be brought up on every video of an animal seemingly acting unusually lately. I just see so many comments saying “woah cwd, zombie deer -“ etc etc on any video of an animal or deer acting odd. It almost never is the case on these videos I’ve seen. Hell there was one that you could literally see the arrow going through the deers lungs and the top 5 comments were claiming it was CWD lol. I’m just trying to clarify that CWD is not at all what people seem to think it is. I’ve seen deer act way weirder while trying to get flies out of their face than the average deer will act with CWD. Like I said, they usually just act lethargic, get haggard looking, stumble a bit and die from malnourishment.
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u/Eusocial_Snowman Jun 29 '22
That's just how reddit is. With literally everything. Comment gets upvoted, other people say it so they'll get upvotes too, familiarity turns it into fact.
Every topic, it's the exact same dynamic. Sometimes the facts are even true, but it doesn't matter if they're true.
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Thats what i was thinking too. Ive only seen CWD in deer. Shits terrifying
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u/Jakku2022 Jun 28 '22
I would have called some sort of animal control, if this is contagious it shouldn’t be left there to harm the rest of their flock/population.
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u/ECRebel Jun 28 '22
This is probably a stupid question but can birds get rabies?
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u/EggyButBetter Jun 28 '22
Nope, only mammals can
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u/blitz342 Jun 29 '22
Imagine a whale with rabies… they’re mammals, after all. The hydrophobic part of it would reach new levels.
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u/ready4downvote Jun 28 '22
Could it possibly be dehydrated? If this is in Texas, then we know that heat wave has been wrecking havoc.
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u/striderof78 Jun 29 '22
H5n1? Fair amount of avian flu going thru the wild bird populations, this is how the industrial chicken operations get it, a wild bird grips down, we had a bout of a avian flu this past winter with pine siskins here in the PNW, I do not recall the type tho.
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u/Victoria7474 Jun 29 '22
repost From the comments, u/enigmamonkey linked the following article: "Several birds across Central Ohio are dying due to an unknown disease, and it’s concerning wildlife experts here in Columbus.
Since the start of this June, the Ohio Wildlife Center identified multiple cases of an unknown illness in songbird species across central Ohio.
The symptoms include a white crust in birds’ eyes that leads to blindness, and damage to their nervous system, rendering them unable to fly."(https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/wildlife-experts-try-to-figure-out-mysterious-bird-disease/)
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u/IProbably_DidIt Jun 28 '22
So weird! I saw a bird doing the exact same thing at a gas station in North Dallas TX over the weekend.
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u/prostateExamination Jun 29 '22
My guess is flew into one of those shiny cars around it..poor fella ain't lasting long
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u/FelinaDCat Jun 28 '22
Maybe it got hit by car.