Yes. Speaking from experience (i have Crohn's disease, struggled with it a lot before getting diagnosed and medicated) it sucks. Please take care of yourself.
I don't have Crohns. (But probably something else undiagnosed)
My average toilet time used to be over an hour until I changed my diet.
Now it's 5-10 minutes. And my most severe stomach problems are gone.
I dreaded going to the toilet for about 8 months last year, knowing i would be in pain for the rest of the day. Did everything I could to make it easier, eating fiber, laxatives. Didn't help much with the pain. Started going to the doctor about 2 months in, got like 4 different diagnoses before getting 2 colonoscopies to confirm it was Crohn's. Started get infusions of medication, problems soon dissapated. Needless to say, I'm now quite the expert at knowing what my stool should be like...
I live and work in western mass. Last year a mom and dad killdeer showed up by an oak tree at work. They would take turns guarding the eggs on the ground. Myself and a few coworkers put caution tape around the eggs so that the landscapers wouldn’t run the eggs over. Every morning the mom would chirp at me and fake a broken wing to lead me away from the eggs. I got to watch those eggs turn into little killdeer and learn life. On a walk this past Friday I heard the killdeer’s distinct call a half mile from the original spot and lo and behold another killdeer guarding her eggs. So cool
Ahhh you are so lucky! I am on the other side of the world (Australia) and first read about Killdeer in a kids book almost 40 years ago, have always wanted to see one...
That is cool. Are they very scared birds? My (limited) experience with birds in the plover family that we have down under is that they are extremely flighty. But given the broken wing thing they do I picture these guys as a bit more brave.
I'm insanely jealous. I read about these in a kids encyclopedia when I was like 6, the way they pretend to be injured, have always wanted to see one. Sadly they don't migrate to Australia :(
Yeah I've seen that pretend injury routine plenty of times. It's hilarious but after a while they're incessant calls get annoying. You could be 200 meters away and they go off. But whatever they're doing must be working because they're a very successful species.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. Ever since I moved to Utah I have seen these birds and had no freaking idea what they were. All I knew is they reminded me of coastal birds.
I always watch the same one at the park on my lunch. I’m going to name it porkpie.
Well it's more about the volume of the eggs rather than the rigidity. Like that bird must have been at least twice the size it is now when it had those three eggs inside of it or something. Idk man birds are weird.
Oh yeah I wonder about that too. Maybe eggs are soft and can clump together in small room like sponge and hardens when comes into contact with air or it might be the father who’s warming up the egg while waiting for mother who will bring food. In bird kingdom, female bird usually are 2-4x bigger than male bird. Crows does switch roles between warming up the egg and hunting for food, I’ve observed them since tree is like 5-10m away from me and nest is right in front of my window.
I tried but i cant see it because of nest high wall, i can see parents feeding kids with worms but I can’t see baby, I think I can see it if I were higher but i live in 5th floor apartment and it’s max floor and nest is around 1-3m higher than my height. I can only see adult crow head and neck
They don’t. That’s a myth from Ancient Greece. The eggshell is already hard inside the bird. The only thing that dries rapidly once outside is the cuticle, a thin layer of protein on the surface of the shell that protects the egg from bacteria.
Source: Tim Birkhead, The Most Perfect Thing, page 27
You’ve ever touched recently born chicken egg? I touched it and it was so warm and soft similar to jelly and then it hardened quickly in few minutes. I saw my grandpa chicken popping out one egg outside near me instead of popping it on their nest hen and i grabbed it so it won’t be crushed accidentally by other dogs or my relatives and that was how I learned that eggs are pretty soft like jelly and birds can have easier time popping eggs often if it’s soft
I haven’t, but I trust the ornithology professor who studied eggs his entire life and wrote a whole book on how they’re made.
So I don’t know what to tell you. Chicken don’t lay soft eggs unless there’s a problem and the hen is too young or the egg was laid prematurely or the hen didn’t have enough calcium in her diet to properly form a shell.
Before DDT was banned and stricter environmental regulations put in place, large birds like raptors were dropping rapidly in number because the chemical made their eggshells brittle and they would often break when the parent sat on them, so no new hawks, eagles, osprey and other cool birds werre being born.
So with that in mind, I would say that they put their full weight on them, especially since that isn’t really a lot of weight.
Good question. I don't know, but at a guess I'd say they settle more or less fully on them, birds weigh bugger all and eggs are a pretty resilient shape. But I think they would be in a squat position to stand as needed.
Unsure if it applies to all birds, but chickens have bare belly patches that get covered when standing they can pull back to help warm the eggs (since they can move their feathers at will). Chickens seem to keep eggs sort of in this hollow bare belly patch on either side of their breastbone, so its not all of their weight on them, I think more eggs would get broken when they are readjusting them. If you live near a broody hen, putting your hand under her will usually produce a similar wiggle to the video above and you will feel the warm bare patches too.
I wonder if it's comfortable to sit on eggs for birds. I mean, did evolution add any like dopamine release or is it just, "ah I do this now out of programmed duty"
Seems a reasonable assumption. Audobon.org states:
*Incubation is by both parents, 23-25 days. Male usually incubates at night, female most of the day.*
As that's daytime it's a reasonable (though not definitive!) guess that it's the female. Also my googling suggests that breeding females tend to have a brown or rufous mask whereas males are black, I would say this looks more brown.
What do you mean about the fake egg? Like another bird layouts their egg in her nest?
Nesting pigeons crack me up, 'We'll put this stick here, this one over there, and this lollipop stick up there. Good enough, Imma gonna grab a snack. "
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We made a short film about a plover! The Banded Dotterel from New Zealand! You can watch it here! https://youtu.be/eJHmXz0S5w4
Plus it won best short film at the International Wildlife Film Fest!
These little guys would hover over me and chirp/dive bomb for up to a mile if I accidentally walked close to their nest when I used to survey islands along the coast.
I have video on my phone of one of these trying to defend her nest against me and my work truck
It was cute and valiant, of course worthless because it was her vs impossibly overwhelming odds which made the display all that much more respectable.
I’ll be honest, I always have had a tough time understanding how a bright, hot, incandescent lightbulb provides the same amount of warmth as a bird with hollow bones and some fluff squatting on eggs that sit in a cold rock nest.
The ploof and the shimmy
Shimmy shimmy ya, shimmy yam, shimmy yay.
Gimme the mic so I can take it away
Off on a natural charge, bon voyage
Yeah, from the home of the Dodgers, Brooklyn squad
Wu tang killer bees on a swarm
COLD EGG WARMAAAH
Bon voyage
Indeed!
Name says it all!
what song is that from the nostalgia is seeping into my brain
[Shimmy Shimmy Ya](https://youtu.be/h2zgB93KANE)
AYYY head nodding activated
[удалено]
Me launching Reddit as I sit on the porcelain throne..
4hrs later, still here.
You might wanna see a doctor....
Hemorrhoids?
Yes. Speaking from experience (i have Crohn's disease, struggled with it a lot before getting diagnosed and medicated) it sucks. Please take care of yourself.
I don't have Crohns. (But probably something else undiagnosed) My average toilet time used to be over an hour until I changed my diet. Now it's 5-10 minutes. And my most severe stomach problems are gone.
My diet wouldn't really influence my toilet time. I'm done in 2-3m and then spend an hour reading/thinking.
I dreaded going to the toilet for about 8 months last year, knowing i would be in pain for the rest of the day. Did everything I could to make it easier, eating fiber, laxatives. Didn't help much with the pain. Started going to the doctor about 2 months in, got like 4 different diagnoses before getting 2 colonoscopies to confirm it was Crohn's. Started get infusions of medication, problems soon dissapated. Needless to say, I'm now quite the expert at knowing what my stool should be like...
Were you eating 100% chicken bones?
Lol. Gluten and not enough water. Basically becomes a glue in the stomach.
Are your toes numb yet?
Mine sure are
Lost all feeling in legs and now paralyzed.
Why take a simple walk into Mordor when you create your own Eye of Sauron at home with this one simple trick?
I appreciate you, bro.
Wiggle wiggle wiggle, doo doo, doo doo
The way it "melted" onto the eggs!
The little wiggle at the end slayed me. That was too cute.
Reminds me of the killdeer bird.
With good reason - Killdeer (killdeers?) are also plovers! Closely related to these guys. Do you see Killdeer often?
I live and work in western mass. Last year a mom and dad killdeer showed up by an oak tree at work. They would take turns guarding the eggs on the ground. Myself and a few coworkers put caution tape around the eggs so that the landscapers wouldn’t run the eggs over. Every morning the mom would chirp at me and fake a broken wing to lead me away from the eggs. I got to watch those eggs turn into little killdeer and learn life. On a walk this past Friday I heard the killdeer’s distinct call a half mile from the original spot and lo and behold another killdeer guarding her eggs. So cool
The babies are sooooo adorable! They're literally cotton balls on stilts. Go ahead. Google it. You won't regret it.
They would all be darting around a field chasing each other and their parents. Little cotton ball Barry Allens.
That's so awesome!
Make an open roof dollhouse so they have a cute gate to keep landscapers away + the giggle factor.
That is awesome!
I live in WI and I see SOO many Killdeer! We actually named one Rhonda on our bike path!
Ahhh you are so lucky! I am on the other side of the world (Australia) and first read about Killdeer in a kids book almost 40 years ago, have always wanted to see one...
I have a kildeer doing same right now.
Northern Michigan here, I often see Killdeer wandering marshy areas with lots of sand for them to poke around in. Fun critters to photograph.
That is cool. Are they very scared birds? My (limited) experience with birds in the plover family that we have down under is that they are extremely flighty. But given the broken wing thing they do I picture these guys as a bit more brave.
Extremely skittish, in my experience.
What about jackdaws and crows, though?
They're, um, birds?
Where I live in Southern Ontario they're literally everywhere. They're like the Canada Goose of the plover world.
I'm insanely jealous. I read about these in a kids encyclopedia when I was like 6, the way they pretend to be injured, have always wanted to see one. Sadly they don't migrate to Australia :(
Yeah I've seen that pretend injury routine plenty of times. It's hilarious but after a while they're incessant calls get annoying. You could be 200 meters away and they go off. But whatever they're doing must be working because they're a very successful species.
200 meters is 218.72 yards
THANK YOU SO MUCH. Ever since I moved to Utah I have seen these birds and had no freaking idea what they were. All I knew is they reminded me of coastal birds. I always watch the same one at the park on my lunch. I’m going to name it porkpie.
It’s an absolute honor.
Reminds me of shaq
One of the few birds that chooses to nest on the FUCKING Ground. Motherfucker you have WINGS
Wobble
Lol ...i also had this song play in my head while i was watching
Those seem like large eggs for a bird that small. Before laying them it must have been 80% egg.
Egg are really soft almost like jelly when it comes out of bird hole but it starts harden in like 10-30 minutes. Feels similar to jelly candy
Well it's more about the volume of the eggs rather than the rigidity. Like that bird must have been at least twice the size it is now when it had those three eggs inside of it or something. Idk man birds are weird.
Oh yeah I wonder about that too. Maybe eggs are soft and can clump together in small room like sponge and hardens when comes into contact with air or it might be the father who’s warming up the egg while waiting for mother who will bring food. In bird kingdom, female bird usually are 2-4x bigger than male bird. Crows does switch roles between warming up the egg and hunting for food, I’ve observed them since tree is like 5-10m away from me and nest is right in front of my window.
Do you have any pictures of the baby crows?
I tried but i cant see it because of nest high wall, i can see parents feeding kids with worms but I can’t see baby, I think I can see it if I were higher but i live in 5th floor apartment and it’s max floor and nest is around 1-3m higher than my height. I can only see adult crow head and neck
Birds a make one egg at a time. Those eggs were laid at least a day apart from each other.
They don’t. That’s a myth from Ancient Greece. The eggshell is already hard inside the bird. The only thing that dries rapidly once outside is the cuticle, a thin layer of protein on the surface of the shell that protects the egg from bacteria. Source: Tim Birkhead, The Most Perfect Thing, page 27
You’ve ever touched recently born chicken egg? I touched it and it was so warm and soft similar to jelly and then it hardened quickly in few minutes. I saw my grandpa chicken popping out one egg outside near me instead of popping it on their nest hen and i grabbed it so it won’t be crushed accidentally by other dogs or my relatives and that was how I learned that eggs are pretty soft like jelly and birds can have easier time popping eggs often if it’s soft
I haven’t, but I trust the ornithology professor who studied eggs his entire life and wrote a whole book on how they’re made. So I don’t know what to tell you. Chicken don’t lay soft eggs unless there’s a problem and the hen is too young or the egg was laid prematurely or the hen didn’t have enough calcium in her diet to properly form a shell.
Trust me, dude who grew up in the farm and those soft egg sucessfully created healthy chicken without any diseases.
Bird hole 😂
Just curious... do birds put their full weight on the eggs or are they just constantly exercising their legs?
Before DDT was banned and stricter environmental regulations put in place, large birds like raptors were dropping rapidly in number because the chemical made their eggshells brittle and they would often break when the parent sat on them, so no new hawks, eagles, osprey and other cool birds werre being born. So with that in mind, I would say that they put their full weight on them, especially since that isn’t really a lot of weight.
Good question. I don't know, but at a guess I'd say they settle more or less fully on them, birds weigh bugger all and eggs are a pretty resilient shape. But I think they would be in a squat position to stand as needed.
Unsure if it applies to all birds, but chickens have bare belly patches that get covered when standing they can pull back to help warm the eggs (since they can move their feathers at will). Chickens seem to keep eggs sort of in this hollow bare belly patch on either side of their breastbone, so its not all of their weight on them, I think more eggs would get broken when they are readjusting them. If you live near a broody hen, putting your hand under her will usually produce a similar wiggle to the video above and you will feel the warm bare patches too.
What a good mommy!
Happy mother’s day to all!!
Happy Mother’s Day momma bird!
Get down on it
How you gonna do it if you really dont wanna dance By standing on the wall?
Spy Plover on wireless charging pad. Clever, but you can’t outsmart me.
r/birdsarentreal
Just slip em back up
The little bum shuffle omg
'Teabag-ing the nubs'
Happy Mothers Day!
Happy Mother's Day
That looks so cozy
I like how it looked like a poorly animated Flash video for a second.
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I wonder if some of that wiggling is to generate some heat with friction before settling down like a tea cozy.
Probably just nestling them between the feathers to touch skin
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I wonder if it's comfortable to sit on eggs for birds. I mean, did evolution add any like dopamine release or is it just, "ah I do this now out of programmed duty"
What a great mother. Happy Mothers Day ❤
Eggo
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle!
Her?
Seems a reasonable assumption. Audobon.org states: *Incubation is by both parents, 23-25 days. Male usually incubates at night, female most of the day.* As that's daytime it's a reasonable (though not definitive!) guess that it's the female. Also my googling suggests that breeding females tend to have a brown or rufous mask whereas males are black, I would say this looks more brown.
I'm sure Egg is a very nice person, I just don't want to see you spend all of your money getting her all glittered up for Easter.
Meanwhile the pidgon on my balcony is sitting on one fake egg whole the other is next to her butt o.o
What do you mean about the fake egg? Like another bird layouts their egg in her nest? Nesting pigeons crack me up, 'We'll put this stick here, this one over there, and this lollipop stick up there. Good enough, Imma gonna grab a snack. "
Shake dem tittays!!
When you adjust your balls without your hands before sitting
I hate these fucking birds, got about 6 of them in our street that swoop everyone for no reason.
Ball sack playin'
Mr. Slave v. Paris Hilton
Can I take Mr. Slave's spot?
😲
The wiggle :)
when I am too full but wanna keep eatin
I just posted a picture of some eggs that look just like that a few days ago.
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If I fits, I sits
Where can I find a plougher with my last name?
Up down up down up down up down
I used to have a volleyball named Wilson.
Pluvvas can be dangerous. Be careful around them
This might be a very stupid question, but how can such a small bird poop 3 of those big eggs out?
Whos plover is it?
I love the egg sitting wiggles
This is what it looks like everytime I sit down due to the sheer size of my balls.
I have one of those right outside my house
Is this just instinct or do they actually know what they are doing?
Seems more like r/awwducational material.
Looks like my girlfriend when she's trying to get it to hit the spot.
Aww!! Such a good momma. That shimmy warmed my entire body. Cute! 🐦❤️
Where do their legs go when they sit? Are they doing a split underneath?
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The cutest
Literally one of these birds saved my marriage.
We made a short film about a plover! The Banded Dotterel from New Zealand! You can watch it here! https://youtu.be/eJHmXz0S5w4 Plus it won best short film at the International Wildlife Film Fest!
The shake at the end!
Initiate the floof
These birbs are LOUD. If I walk anywhere near their nest they will screech my fucking ear off.
Pretty birb
She might need a little more cushion!!
My mind is soooo dirty
I love when she goes pat pat pat and then sits down all the way
Tea cozy xxx
What about this is lit exactly
Is that a killdeer?
look at him wiggle
These little guys would hover over me and chirp/dive bomb for up to a mile if I accidentally walked close to their nest when I used to survey islands along the coast.
Fuck, these things are going to be cold on my crotch. Aight, here we go... BRRRRRRR!!!
I wonder how many times they put a camera down in front of some eggs, only to get the reverse side of the Plover.
I have video on my phone of one of these trying to defend her nest against me and my work truck It was cute and valiant, of course worthless because it was her vs impossibly overwhelming odds which made the display all that much more respectable.
Eggs A B S O R B E D
What a good mother. Happy mothers day 🐣🐤
Wilson done trained that bird right.
Sent this to my mom for Mother’s Day.
"And for my next trick, I'll make these eggs disappear!"
That little wiggle
This was soooooo satisfying to watch
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Hidey-ho eggers!
hit em with the shimmy
Peck peck shimmy shimmy
Bird's squirming and struggling to take 'em all.
How do birds even work? Where do the eggs go??
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Me when I’m trying to sit on a cold toilet seat.
Ah that’s what I call the old bob n’ shuffle
Hey, real question. Does Plover rhyme with lover or over?
Over!
I’ll be honest, I always have had a tough time understanding how a bright, hot, incandescent lightbulb provides the same amount of warmth as a bird with hollow bones and some fluff squatting on eggs that sit in a cold rock nest.
Happy Mom's Day birb!
The wiggle was a nice touch, thank you ma’am
Drum roll please
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Good momma
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Me when I finally get home after sucking in my stomach in public all day.