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birds spread wild fire

Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:39 pm
Posted by junior
baton rouge
Member since Mar 2005
2702 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:39 pm
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The raptors have been observed picking up burning twigs from these blazes and then flying up to 50 meters (165 feet) away to unburnt patches of grassland and forest, where they deliberately drop them, spreading the fire.


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Following this, the birds will then sit at the advancing edge of the fire, and wait for small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and insects to flee the flames, picking off the hapless critters as they make a run for it.


Smokey will be pissed
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
45568 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:40 pm to
Dicks.
Posted by JetsetNuggs
Member since Jun 2014
15619 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:40 pm to
First they shite on our cars and now this?

This is war.
Posted by CarRamrod
Spurbury, VT
Member since Dec 2006
58631 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:40 pm to
is is open season on these birds yet?
Posted by Rouge
Floston Paradise
Member since Oct 2004
138859 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:42 pm to
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birds spread wild fire
sounds like they will need a legal defense

do we know any lawyers that can handle such affairs?
Posted by Team Alpha Beast
Member since Mar 2016
743 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:44 pm to
That’s pretty impressive actually.

Genius
This post was edited on 1/8/18 at 1:45 pm
Posted by Saskwatch
Member since Feb 2016
18370 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:44 pm to
Pecker has been slacking on his animal threads.
This has all the makings of a good one.
Posted by FinebaumsHair
Monroe, La
Member since Aug 2017
3001 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:45 pm to
Sounds like we need these birds in California next summer to help completely burn that shitshow down
Posted by Jester
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
34717 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:49 pm to
Sounds like some coonass birds.
Posted by SECretariat
Member since Jun 2015
397 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:50 pm to
Doesn't surprise me one bit.. Have you seen videos of crows using tools to get treats? Crazy smart animals LINK
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
24372 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:51 pm to
Before I read the explanation in the OP, my first thought was that this makes sense because a) birds are flammable and b) birds can fly.
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
33687 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:57 pm to
That is a total dick move.

Raptors would be at home on the OT.
Posted by Jor Jor The Dinosaur
Chicago, IL
Member since Nov 2014
7581 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:58 pm to
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The raptors
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wait for small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and insects to flee the flames, picking off the hapless critters as they make a run for it.
Posted by tss22h8
30.4 N 90.9 W
Member since Jan 2007
18793 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:58 pm to
[hijack]
Something similar has been attributed to St. Olga of Kiev, who took revenge on the people who butchered her husband:

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“Now Olga gave to each soldier in her army a pigeon or a sparrow, and ordered them to attach by thread to each pigeon and sparrow a piece of sulfur bound with small pieces of cloth. When night fell, Olga bade her soldiers release the pigeons and the sparrows. So the birds flew to their nests, the pigeons to the cotes, and the sparrows under the eaves. The dove-cotes, the coops, the porches, and the haymows were set on fire.

“There was not a house that was not consumed, and it was impossible to extinguish the flames, because all the houses caught on fire at once. The people fled from the city, and Olga ordered her soldiers to catch them. Thus she took the city and burned it, and captured the elders of the city. Some of the other captives she killed, while some she gave to others as slaves to her followers. The remnant she left to pay tribute.”

One saint you do not want to frick with

From the Russian Primary Chronicle

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This post was edited on 1/8/18 at 2:00 pm
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
60197 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:58 pm to
Actually most of the wildfires were caused by potheads throwing joints out the window
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
76784 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 2:23 pm to
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he birds will then sit at the advancing edge of the fire, and wait for small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and insects to flee the flames, picking off the hapless critters as they make a run for it.


they learned this from hunters
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 2:25 pm to
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Following this, the birds will then sit at the advancing edge of the fire, and wait for small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and insects to flee the flames, picking off the hapless critters as they make a run for it.



That's incredibly badass.

But forest fires are pretty shitty situations so frick those birds.
Posted by GeorgeTheGreek
Sparta, Greece
Member since Mar 2008
69588 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 2:26 pm to
Birds are dicks.
Posted by TDsngumbo
Member since Oct 2011
51643 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 2:27 pm to
fricking assholes
Posted by MrLSU
Yellowstone, Val d'isere
Member since Jan 2004
30082 posts
Posted on 1/8/18 at 2:28 pm to
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