I decided to try it at home with a full-sized deer carcass. When I saw that I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
About 45 minutes later this turkey vulture came out of nowhere and went right to the spot and uncovered the meat. He went to a rainforest in Trinidad and buried a piece of rotting meat under the leaf litter on the forest floor. When I was in Grade 10 I saw an episode of the TV show, Life of Birds, with David Attenborough. Tell me about luring turkey vultures into your family’s backyard. I guess they figured there were worse things a teenager could be addicted to. My mom and dad have 20 acres of land outside of Crestwell, Ore., and I started identifying birds in our backyard and got hooked. The other kids thought it was the dumbest thing ever to look at these stupid birds. She would stop class whenever a new bird arrived and ask us to identify it. I had a teacher, when I was in 5th grade, who put a bird feeder on our classroom window. Why, as a young boy, did you become interested in birds? Our conversation has been shortened for length. He recognizes birds are intelligent creatures (yes, they are!) and has written a book: The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human. Strycker is young, just 28, but he’s already a self-described bird nerd, having travelled to Antarctica to see penguins, the Southern Ocean to view albatrosses and Australia to watch bowerbirds.
I knew Noah Strycker would understand our passion for this tiny lovebird. When Hugo died the entire family mourned his passing. Every morning he had a routine that required we scratch his head for several minutes, then let him fly to his favourite drawer (which he crawled into and explored).
He ate food out of our hands, especially popcorn and granola. He cuddled in our palms, sat on our shoulders, rubbed his cheek against ours. When he flew to the sink we knew he either wanted a bird bath or a sip of water. He considered us part of his flock and demanded to be out of his cage as soon as we arrived home from school or work. Hugo was an adorable peach-faced lovebird who lived with our family for 15 years. I guess it is not surprising that if any bird could dance to the beat, it would be a parrot.” “Parrots are definitely among the smartest birds in the world, right up there with crows and ravens.
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