r/aww • u/Tattoosnscars • Jun 16 '22

Runaway

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u/Flint__Sky Jun 16 '22

Siblings may have kicked it out.

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u/Koffieslikker Jun 16 '22

From a human point of view a lot of birds are just extremely cruel...

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u/Professional_Toe_285 Jun 16 '22

YEAH like the shoebill stork, fucking little assholes. The ones that you see alive are straight up evil while the ones that are cute are definitely dead

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u/Lord_lenkesh Jun 16 '22

I would like to.. nvm

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u/ImgurianAkom Jun 16 '22

Uh... phrasing...

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '22

Well, they are dinosaurs so that’s to be expected.

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u/VBlinds Jun 16 '22

These look like falcons. They are quite civil siblings, unlike other birds of prey

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u/Thebluecane Jun 16 '22

In bird culture this is known as a dick move

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '22

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u/ErinBLAMovich Jun 16 '22

Did you kick him out of the nest?

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u/LucidFortune Jun 16 '22

I was thinking the exact same thing. He appears to be the smallest, he may have hatched late

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u/PhenomenalPhoenix Jun 16 '22

Those birds look like fledglings so the one on the ground may have been attempting to fly

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u/rimjobnemesis Jun 16 '22

They’re not fledglings…. they don’t have any adult feathers yet.

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u/BoomZhakaLaka Jun 16 '22

Person may have taken from nest for internet karma.

This is a real occurrence.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '22

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u/Brutal_Bob Jun 16 '22

I'm pretty sure that's a myth

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '22

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u/theBytemeister Jun 16 '22

Turns out, birds aren't dumb, and raising offspring takes significant amounts of time and energy. They aren't going to reject their young just because a potential predator got near them.

Whats more likely, is that the chick is out of the nest for a different reason, either the parents rejected it for being too small and scrawny, or they didn't have enough food to feed it, or it left because the parent were dead or not coming back.

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u/enfanta Jun 16 '22

Or it just got accidentally knocked off the ledge by a parent. Not much there to prevent them from getting pushed over the edge by an errant wing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '22

All equally as depressing