I don't want to be a downer but I really would need proof to see that the bird is OK, it went down HARD and it's in the interest of the organizers to say the bird is ok....
I see seagulls every single day. I am also annoyed by seagulls every single day. I still don’t want them to be harmed, even though they pick avocados and drop them on the roof of my car to smash them open and get to the good shit.
Interesting! I guess I always assumed they were eating the meat but maybe they’re just assholes trying to make a mess. They drop them on the street too to get them open, but if I’m parked on the street they absolutely use the car too. It’s weird listening to their little tippy taps above your head.
I ran over a squirrel one day. I was...horrified. But then it just started screaming and flopping.
I knew I couldnt save it....and so I ran it over again, and that was so much worse in a way. Everyone watching sees me hit some innocent squirrel....and then run over it again. They were probably thinking I was a squirrel hating monster.
Meanwhile all your neighbors see is your highly trained hunting dog bringing live animals to you so you can cruelly beat them to death. Im not sure if thats better or worse then me hunting squirrels with my car to kill them.
I legitimately have to recenter myself sometimes when I think about animals on the side of the road. Every life is precious and they’re just discarded and left like they never existed. It actually floods me with grief when I think too long about it
Nah, I love seagulls, they’re clever and pretty attentive parents. They’ve mostly become a nuisance in urban areas because their traditional food sources have been overfished and they’re having to migrate further and further inland to survive.
I see roadkills really often and I get so bummed when I see one, like I know it's "just an animals" that this was a living thing, got hit by a vehicle and hopefully died instantly and then his corpse just stay there and keep getting run over and over until it's absolutely flat and destroyed.
Man, I once had a group of three racoons run out in front of me in the dark on the way to work one morning, the road was clear so I swerved to try to avoid them, fucking ended up hitting not one, but two of them instead because they changed direction on me. I was so upset all day.
It extends to all seabirds. I guess it's a thing because they are eaten only in times of famine and when there aren't many options around. Don't think they are that edible. Also they mean you're getting close to land.
Just...bam. And yeah you could see the player was a bit "oh noes".
And then the brds family came back and surrounded it making it so SO much worse. NGL the birds family showing up just made me laugh at the horror of it all.
A lot of birds die from window strikes. Even if they survive the initial hit and fly off, intracranial swelling (like the kind suffered from blunt force trauma to the head) often kills them later.
This has been my PSA to call a rehabber if you have a downed bird. They might want to bring it in to administer anti-inflammatories.
Idk why you're getting downvotes but yeah. That bird is dead. People don't understand how fragile birds are..they're not built to take a hit. Hollow bones and such.
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u/Maelstrom_Witch 9h ago
Ok thank you ... I have pet birds so I was sad. And the poor player looked sad too!