Bird shot for knocking over dominoes

I know a dude shot a bird for singing on his roof when he wanted to be sleeping. Some folks are just too touchy.

Ha! Maybe it was the cousin of te deer-wrestling guy.

We've got 2 cockatiels. One of them is adopted from my wife's family some years back.

They lived in an apartment that got visits from seagulls on the roof on a regular basis. The smart little guy copied the raucus noise that gulls tend to make.

Nowadays (we're nowhere near gulls) every once in a while he'll break loose into one of those gull noises! Suprises the heck of of you.

Fortunately, a couple of blankets over the cage settles him down.

This bird is quite the mimic. Hears a call and can repeat it after a while.

yes, but does he knock over dominoes?

No, but he can open one of the little doors that holds in a feed cup!

What does that mean exactly? He can feed himself?

I've killed a bird for less.

There was that bald eagle that looked at me funny...

Grrrr.....

There are doors that hold feed cups in place within the cage. He can move these doors. Fortunately, the cups don't fall out, at least not yet.

Here's a follow-up to the shooting of a bird that knocked over a bunch of dominoes.

The Dutch animal protection agency demanded prosecution Tuesday for the shooting of a sparrow that knocked over 23,000 dominoes during an attempt to set a world record....

Dutch agencies call fowl play in shooting of domino-busting sparrow

What has the world come to when you need a permit to shoot a sparrow?

It's probably going to the same place when people sit around for a month setting up dominoes to knock down later.

Wellll, it was a lot of dominoes.

....and it was a month to set them up, too!

On the other hand, I might have accidently stumbled, and knocked over the whole schmeer. Should I come upon such an opportunity, I'll be sure to be packing more than the average sparrow.

If they hadn't had those 750 strategically placed breaks, the sparrow might have knocked over millions of dominos. In which case they might have gone after his whole family.

Hmm, contract sparrow killing? Sounds nasty, indeed!

Update:

More than 5,000 people signed a condolence register on an impromptu website set up to honour the bird and Dutch news media reported the guard who shot the bird received death threats.

Dutch TV show claims domino world record in event marred by dead sparrow