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WX7P
08-28-2013, 06:33 AM
Well I think so, maybe our friends from OZ might think differently...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLfOjOcCWls
WØTKX
08-28-2013, 08:24 AM
Blue Jays on steroids. I have heard stories from Aussie pals in the ski industry.

For instance, they like to tear up rubber seals and wiper blades on vehicles.

Just for fun.
KG4CGC
08-28-2013, 08:34 AM
Blue Jays on steroids. I have heard stories from Aussie pals in the ski industry.

For instance, they like to tear up rubber seals and wiper blades on vehicles.

Just for fun.

Ever see a bird blunt itself to death in a car's sideview mirror?
koØm
08-28-2013, 10:42 AM
Ever see a bird blunt itself to death in a car's sideview mirror?

I was coming down the off-ramp at a pretty good clip and a bird dipped and flew into the grill of my truck, I thought that I was gonna be picking feathers out of my radiator but, as I de-accelerated about 200 feet, the bird takes off and flies off the grill and keeps on going.

I was doing at lest 40 mph when I came off the ramp, the physics had to be amazing for that bird to survive and fly away;
then there was the other one that didn't see the antenna on top of my truck. "SPRO-O-O-G" went the antenna, crash went the bird.

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W5BRM
08-28-2013, 01:00 PM
Backn in the mid 90's I used to drive in Florida a lot in the truck.

Was out on I75 in the glades. Had a blue heron commit suicide by truck. He came at me from the south tried to pull up and failed.

I heard him roll across the roof and expexted him to come off the other side and maybe roll down the side of the trailer.

Nope!

He fell between the cab and reefer unit then came out nothing but feathers from the drive tires behind me. Made a gory mess on the inside sidewall.

His beak and skull somehow got lodged between my driver side duals. Had to pull it out with pliers..

Had a turkey take out my radiator in ny in 2002 as well. Nothin left of him either. He tried but couldnt get enough lift or speed to get out ofthe way.
KG4CGC
08-28-2013, 02:37 PM
Well the video has taken forever to boofer both times I've tried to watch so, can someone just give me the cliffs?
WX7P
08-28-2013, 05:14 PM
Try this one:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qix6oUxim3Q
NA4BH
08-28-2013, 05:25 PM
Do they taste like chicken?
WØTKX
08-28-2013, 06:49 PM
Distant Illinois relative...

http://www.mnn.com/sites/default/files/Kingfisher.jpg
K7SGJ
08-28-2013, 06:52 PM
Distant Illinois relative...

http://www.mnn.com/sites/default/files/Kingfisher.jpg

Similar, but the Kookaburra has a longer pecker.
WX7P
08-28-2013, 07:05 PM
Distant Illinois relative...

http://www.mnn.com/sites/default/files/Kingfisher.jpg

You're right. They are members of the Kingfisher family.
W3WN
08-28-2013, 09:01 PM
Well, there's birds, and then there's...
http://db66abc2c256b763aaef-ce5d943d4869ae027976e5ad085dd9b0.r76.cf2.rackcdn.c om/2013/239/024/marlon-byrd_420.jpg
Newly arrived from the Mets, hit a 3 run homer tonight. Which makes him a member of the Knights Who Say "Nee!"








... because he hit it into the Shrubbery...
KG4CGC
08-28-2013, 09:03 PM
OK. Based on many movies and Gilligan's Island, those birds are in Africa, South America and, Gilligan's Island of course.
I thought they were strictly Australian.
NA4BH
08-28-2013, 10:20 PM
OK. Based on many movies and Gilligan's Island, those birds are in Africa, South America and, Gilligan's Island of course.
I thought they were strictly Australian.

Indonesia for the Indonesians. But it wasn't always like that........
NQ6U
08-28-2013, 10:58 PM
Indonesia for the Indonesians. But it wasn't always like that........

No, first they had to come from places with strange names...
NA4BH
08-28-2013, 10:59 PM
And the Army (Army)
kb2vxa
08-29-2013, 10:52 AM
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, cool kookaburra bird
Kooka kooka kooka!

Crikey, a contraction of Christ is king. Strange name for a bird that can't stop laughing. (;->)