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Canuck with one of his favorite toys.

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Bird damage

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GUIRA CUCKOO

Twins Guira guira (a social, non-parasitic cuckoo found widely in open and semi-open habitats of South America), by P Antonio Di Stefano

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@edgarblythe,

https://www.birdnote.org/sites/default/files/storage/640_fixed_width/yellow-billed-cuckoo-seth-patterson-640.jpg?itok=xtZyFCbl

The yellow billed cuckoo.

I live in Dallas and used to hear and see them occasionally. They're a little bit bigger than the mockingbird, and the call sounds like something you'd hear in a jungle. Ka ka ka ka ka kwoop kwoop. It's unmistakable. Haven't seen or heard one in a while. They feed on tent caterpillars and the spraying for west Nile may have affected them.

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@coluber2001,

I guess they don't live around here. Birds I used to see around seem to have fled. I haven't even seen sparrows. Mainly, it's mockingbirds, blue jays and cardinals. Woodpeckers used to hang around. I was happy they moved on, because their presence denotes diseased trees. In town there is more diversity. A few cranes are along the road. Even the vultures have backed off, somewhat. I guess all the new construction is to blame.

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@edgarblythe,

tell me about Canuck. Hes a handsome blaggard

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@farmerman,

I saw a photo of Canuck with a cheese slice in his beak, yesterday. The employees at McDonalds use that to lure him out of the restaurant.

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This link takes you to a youtube page with lots of videos about him.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=canuck

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Painted bunting
Used to see these around Dallas, but haven't seen one in a long while.

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Canuck loves a good head scratch

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@edgarblythe,

Now for something... somewhat different?

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@tsarstepan,

Twisted Doodles

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@tsarstepan,

You left out the squirrels.

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Black Swan with red bill

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@edgarblythe,

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Osprey

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another kind of osprey

http://www.boeing.com/resources/boeingdotcom/defense/v-22_osprey/images/v_22_hero_lrg_1280x720.jpg

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@edgarblythe,

I saw a flock of ospreys once, but I now forget where - just that I must have been speeding by, and that was that, didn't stay to look harder. Baaaad.

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@edgarblythe,

At Chessington World of Adventure you can feed those birds with little cups of nectar they sell for a quid each.

Last time I was there about four of them were perched on a really big bloke, and I mean really big. He looked quite scare and was saying to his children, yes, his children, 'I want them off, I want them off, please get them off!'

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