Birds of prey have been seen swooping on smoldering twigs and embers

Started?

More like propagating existing fires.

another article

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/australian-raptors-may-be-playing-fire

CrazyNeutrino said:

Birds of prey have been seen swooping on smoldering twigs and embers

Started?

More like propagating existing fires.

Perhaps they are eating firebugs

Cymek said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Birds of prey have been seen swooping on smoldering twigs and embers

Started?

More like propagating existing fires.

Perhaps they are eating firebugs

:)

CrazyNeutrino said:

Birds of prey have been seen swooping on smoldering twigs and embers

Started?

More like propagating existing fires.

I think they estimated that intellectually some birds are equivalent to a 6 year old child, so am not surprised if they can see an easy way of getting a meal, then why not. Also lots of animals and birds use tools to obtain food, which makes this just another way.

PermeateFree said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Birds of prey have been seen swooping on smoldering twigs and embers

Started?

More like propagating existing fires.

I think they estimated that intellectually some birds are equivalent to a 6 year old child, so am not surprised if they can see an easy way of getting a meal, then why not. Also lots of animals and birds use tools to obtain food, which makes this just another way.

True.

CrazyNeutrino said:

Birds of prey have been seen swooping on smoldering twigs and embers

Started?

More like propagating existing fires.

yeah, it’s not like they get the zippo out and begin the fire.

Arts said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Birds of prey have been seen swooping on smoldering twigs and embers

Started?

More like propagating existing fires.

yeah, it’s not like they get the zippo out and begin the fire.

Still and all, propagating a new fire is starting a fire.

we need to create a tax to stamp this out

• we need to create a tax to stamp this out

Just need to train flocks of birds to carry buckets of water to put out bush fires…

wookiemeister said:

we need to create a tax to stamp this out

The cops tried this when a family was blown across the landscape by a gas explosion. The birds still stole the evidence from the crime scene.

furious said:

• we need to create a tax to stamp this out

Just need to train flocks of birds to carry buckets of water to put out bush fires…

eagles perhaps

furious said:

• we need to create a tax to stamp this out

Just need to train flocks of birds to carry buckets of water to put out bush fires…

training birds would probably cost less than the drone plan.

i heard a story about two blokes that inflated a truck inner tube with an acetylene and oxygen mix

they had a fuse and stood back a great distance, the resulting explosion lifted them off their feet

wookiemeister said:

furious said:

• we need to create a tax to stamp this out

Just need to train flocks of birds to carry buckets of water to put out bush fires…

eagles perhaps

The fork tailed kites will do. At leats they flock in significant numbers at fire sites. Fucking eagles are wimps until after the event.

wookiemeister said:

i heard a story about two blokes that inflated a truck inner tube with an acetylene and oxygen mix

they had a fuse and stood back a great distance, the resulting explosion lifted them off their feet

and left their testicles behind.

It is 9:11

I’ll have to check, is it the jackdaw or rook? It’s the rook.

Whichever it is, it is considered a bird of ill-omen because it will fumigate itself using smoke from fires to get rid of invertebrate parasites. It would also sometimes carry a burning twig up to its nest to fumigate the nest. Sometimes the nest would catch fire, burning down whatever it was in, such as a barn. The owner of the barn was seldom pleased with this turn of events. I’ve heard it said that this is the natural history origin of the story of the phoenix, a bird that would bask in the smoke generated as its nest burnt before rising from the ashes and flying off.

rooks nest in rookeries, in trees.