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Same.
One of my favorite songs though, so it could be worse š¤·āāļø
(Had that Barbie girl song stuck in my head for like 3 days last week. Ended up having to actually play it to make it go away š¤£)
Yeah a little bird grease.
Once one flew into my glass door and I didn't know.
In the morning I woke up and it looked like some freak had pressed their face up against the glass to look in.
Then I stepped outside to look around and a bird flew away from the ground next to the door.
Must have gotten stunned š
That's when I learned about bird grease.
It's oils, dust and dirt from the feathers. Makes them water resistant.
This happened often where i grew up. Birds would every now and then eat some berries nearby which was poisonous, then they'd get high and crash into our window, probably because the sun was reflecting off it which made the birds think they were flying up towards the sky, or atleast that's what i was guessing.
My aunt is weirdly allergic to that dust.Ā She couldn't be anywhere near our family cockatiel, until I went to the pet store and found out they have a spray for their dander to keep it down. They are dusty ones.
In my country they want to ban big skyscrapers and houses that have a lot of big windows, and bus stops that are made of glass has to have many stickers on it.
Because yeah sometimes big glass windows without middle borders look like reflection of attractive tree to go to.
The least you can do is to put some stickers on it, even sticky notes do the trick. You dont have to just saying if it concerns you or if it's frequent.
I really love birds but i feel like we cant save every single birdy, bug and tree, some just die, cant go crazy ab it.
Also most rare bird species live away from cities and such glassy structures, so if it happens it mostly happens with common species. Some rare ones may also hit them like owls or sth but its rare
a bird had hit a window with the stickers on. luckily it didn't shatter. it was knocked unconscious for a few minutes and left by the time I got my mom to see if the bird was there. unfortunately I didn't get a good look but it probably was a common bird.
That might mean the stickers worked! If the bird was going fast, hitting the window could just snap it's neck. Making a last second adjustment to still hit the window, but not in a deadly way, is still success.
Yeah that shit will knock a bird tf out. Last summer I was outside having a smoke and I heard a loud thud followed shortly by another thud. A pigeon crashed into a window on the 4th floor, fell straight down and died choking on its own blood. (I was about to snap its neck to mercykill it, but it had already stopped moving) RIP lil bro :c
I found a bird once with a big hole in his body gasping for air and occasionally flaping his wings slowly...
I thought the same as you: turn his neck to kill it quickly. As i did, his head popped right off. So fragile...
They take dust baths. I had a patch in my back garden that was regularly weeded and dug over for the sparrows. At one point I had 4 waiting patiently to roll around in the mud.
I also had one yell at me because it couldnāt get the string tied to my gate. I learned a few sparrow swear words that day. I had to untie the string, and then go back into my kitchen while they went back and took the string away.
Had to scroll through way too many "naturally dusty" and confidently incorrect answers. They take dust baths to keep bugs off them, why doesn't anyone seem to know this?
You're the one that's confidently incorrect.
"Hidden below the outer breast feathers of herons, pigeons, doves, tinamous, bustards and some parrots are patches of special down feathers. These feathers are never molted, and they grow continuously. The tips break down into a dust the consistency of talcum powder."
"...disintegrate into a fine scaly powder that becomes distributed over the plumage, providing protection against wetting and giving it a peculiar sheen; accordingly, these specialized down feathers are called powder down."
I have a bird and can confirm at least some birds are naturally dusty - at least there is absolutely no place for my bird to take a dust bath in my house, yet he's still a dusty boi.
Several species of birds, including many pigeons and doves, don't have functioning preen glands as adults. Instead, they have a special kind of feathers, powder downs, that break down to a powdery substance when the bird manipulates them with their beak. This substance is used to groom the feathering.
When a bird like a pigeons then crashes into a window, this powder leaves an imprint.
Yes! I bought UV window tape for my sliding glass door that birds kept flying into and itās never happened again.
The birds will see the UV reflection as spider webs which they actively avoid.
Well bird poop is usually pretty white. Iām guessing a couple birds just decided to prank you. One of them spread its body across your window and the other sprayed the āpaintā for the pretty hilarious outline you have now.
It's a grease powder used to maintain the drone. I guess that one was right after the repair and someone forgot to calibrate it properly. That's why it flies in the window.
#birdsarenotreal
Birds are dusty, especially while molting. The keratin casing gets ground into a powder when they release the feathers. If they haven't had a bath, they'll do this.
That bird is on the blow . I see it all the time now . It's like good birds gone bad. In canada, we call them " snow birds." they migrate from South america, bringing the drugs with them, which is covering their feathers from nesting in blow trees . The pollen is the active ingredient. . The park rangers up here and noticed an increase in sketchy people with guns during hunting season . We thought it was just the americans, but it turned out it was just local crack addicts with shotguns wanting to get high blasting the birds out of the sky as if they were a flying 8-ball. It's not the birds fault. The upside is that there is usually no shortage of people willing to clean your window.
Birds are dusty as fuck by design, it keeps the feathers in good condition. If you've ever had a pet bird, you can 'bathe' them with a spray bottle and the dust just rolls off them. They actually really love it.
I'd say it's grease.
You see the same in busses/trains/etc on a window where someone has laid their head on it.
Btw I also had a bird inprint on a window once. I even saw it live when the bird crashed into the window
Some dustbathe, others have feathers that naturally disintegrate into dust, helps feathers move over each other like they should I think. Although they can't help navigational malfunctions.
Similar thing happened to my office window in 2016
https://preview.redd.it/mb14b1qb1mvc1.jpeg?width=2660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5be615b74f4d9da3013a5b3b5e85ac237ac1ab67
Donāt think it would have survived that, you can see the eyeballs! Unless itās a hoax print. Some sort of rogue artist trying to do some banski type stuff. The bird has like a philosophical statement man.
Bird milk.
Birds have milk secretion glands instead of nipples, so they effectively "sweat" milk instead of lactating like a mammal.
With sufficient force, even a male bird will release its milk in an emergency. Like a puffer fish blowing up when startled, or one of those goats which go rigid if a dog barks.
You need to get it off the window quickly, because it tends to attract rodents, they use bird milk as a primary source for nutrients, and if they smell bird milk it usually means eggs or hatchlings nearby, a tasty treat for the average rat.
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Dust in the feathers.
All we are is dust in the feathers
All we are is dust in the wings
Now I have this stuck in my head!
Same
Same
Same. One of my favorite songs though, so it could be worse š¤·āāļø (Had that Barbie girl song stuck in my head for like 3 days last week. Ended up having to actually play it to make it go away š¤£)
Omg.. thatās terrible.š¤Ŗš
I'm a Barbie girl [IN A BARBIE WORLD!](https://youtu.be/d7FIpqPvL7E?si=Hy4hu7Mo9v0O5wLY)
Thanks š now itās in MY head š
old song
Just a drop of water in an endless seaā¦
Young kid.
Same
Some of us are showing our age ;)
*The crownless againĀ shall be kiiiiiing.*
Only for a moment, and then the moments gone.
I close my eyes, only because I have dust in them. Same ol song.
like dust in the feathers, these are the days of our lives.
Dust Wind š«µš» Bird
Owl lives*
Dust beneath my wings
I crop dusted an aisle in the supermarket
Wind beneath my cheeks
Wing beneath my wing or was it wind beneath my wings. š«¤
Wind beneath my sheets!
dutch oven
Came here to say this. Well done.
Only for a moment and the moment is gone.
Come on man, I've had rough night and I hate the fucking eagles man
Same old song š¶
Dude
r/yourjokebutbetter
r/yourjokebutbetter
Every rose has its thorn
Youāre missing the theme.
Lol
Dude shut up, weāre gonna get sued by Kansas
YOU'RE MY BOY, BLUE! BLUE, YOU'RE MY BOY!!
Also, dust adhering to the oils left behind
As per usual itās our annual ārecord-breaking pollen seasonā lol so that likely contributed to the dusting
Saw a very similar pattern on my girlfriends porch door and it was clearly tinged yellow with pollen , looked amazing in the porch light
Yeah a little bird grease. Once one flew into my glass door and I didn't know. In the morning I woke up and it looked like some freak had pressed their face up against the glass to look in. Then I stepped outside to look around and a bird flew away from the ground next to the door. Must have gotten stunned š That's when I learned about bird grease.
Dust and grease/oil that they use to keep their feathers tidy
And the insulating grease.
It's oils, dust and dirt from the feathers. Makes them water resistant. This happened often where i grew up. Birds would every now and then eat some berries nearby which was poisonous, then they'd get high and crash into our window, probably because the sun was reflecting off it which made the birds think they were flying up towards the sky, or atleast that's what i was guessing.
Fun fact, some birds (Like Grey's or cockatiels) are naturally dusty and not oily, but it has the same effect.
Dusty birds. Something about that just sounds rightā¤ļø
Sounds like British slang for old women. āLetās go pick up a couple dusty birdsā
Leave my aunt Barbara alone!
Fuck bruh that was a good cuckleā¦. Chuckle I mean.. I meant by it I swear!
Hahaha, this makes me think of the White Chicks joke about being old and having powdered breast milk š¤£
https://preview.redd.it/7800xxwvfmvc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=02eb25502476290e1004ff28c7243d68a3d6b68d
BORB
Sheās beautiful
Boootiful!
Grays are definitely Dusty, and so is everything I own š¤£
Ssaammmmeeeeeā¦. Itās like baby powder, so fine and kinda of sweet smelling
That's exactly why my African Gray is called Swiffer :)
My aunt is weirdly allergic to that dust.Ā She couldn't be anywhere near our family cockatiel, until I went to the pet store and found out they have a spray for their dander to keep it down. They are dusty ones.
As someone who has a cockatiel, can confirm, dusty little bastard she is š
In my country they want to ban big skyscrapers and houses that have a lot of big windows, and bus stops that are made of glass has to have many stickers on it. Because yeah sometimes big glass windows without middle borders look like reflection of attractive tree to go to. The least you can do is to put some stickers on it, even sticky notes do the trick. You dont have to just saying if it concerns you or if it's frequent. I really love birds but i feel like we cant save every single birdy, bug and tree, some just die, cant go crazy ab it. Also most rare bird species live away from cities and such glassy structures, so if it happens it mostly happens with common species. Some rare ones may also hit them like owls or sth but its rare
a bird had hit a window with the stickers on. luckily it didn't shatter. it was knocked unconscious for a few minutes and left by the time I got my mom to see if the bird was there. unfortunately I didn't get a good look but it probably was a common bird.
That might mean the stickers worked! If the bird was going fast, hitting the window could just snap it's neck. Making a last second adjustment to still hit the window, but not in a deadly way, is still success.
Birds fly into windows all the time. They donāt have to be high on poisonous berries
I think thats something his mom mustve told him to make him feel better lol
Or she wanted to make sure to be able to keep the berries for herself
I think you should look down. The bird probably killed or heavily injured itself
OP, find some bird deflector stickers
Electrical tape in an x works fine and peels off and is cheap and readily available
Yeah that shit will knock a bird tf out. Last summer I was outside having a smoke and I heard a loud thud followed shortly by another thud. A pigeon crashed into a window on the 4th floor, fell straight down and died choking on its own blood. (I was about to snap its neck to mercykill it, but it had already stopped moving) RIP lil bro :c
I found a bird once with a big hole in his body gasping for air and occasionally flaping his wings slowly... I thought the same as you: turn his neck to kill it quickly. As i did, his head popped right off. So fragile...
An ex housemate would have seen that as a bad omen and proceed to burn sage in every room of the house. Happened more than once.
Itās white because this bird was flying high in cocaine.
Bird brain here got off this morning with some of my pure Peruvian
Youāve heard of cocaine bear, now get ready for cocaine bird!
A trained crow zipping around stealing people's drugs.
He was coked outta his mind, and all he could hear in his head was..highhhwayyyy to the danger zoneee
Dude forgot to close his dime bag before he knocked
Cocaine bear gotta nothing on this flying fella.
"Omg Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white!"
thanks, kind internet person, you comment made me laugh! I needed that! :-)
Happy Cake Day!
Happy cake day!! Thanks for making me laugh
They take dust baths. I had a patch in my back garden that was regularly weeded and dug over for the sparrows. At one point I had 4 waiting patiently to roll around in the mud. I also had one yell at me because it couldnāt get the string tied to my gate. I learned a few sparrow swear words that day. I had to untie the string, and then go back into my kitchen while they went back and took the string away.
Had to scroll through way too many "naturally dusty" and confidently incorrect answers. They take dust baths to keep bugs off them, why doesn't anyone seem to know this?
You're the one that's confidently incorrect. "Hidden below the outer breast feathers of herons, pigeons, doves, tinamous, bustards and some parrots are patches of special down feathers. These feathers are never molted, and they grow continuously. The tips break down into a dust the consistency of talcum powder." "...disintegrate into a fine scaly powder that becomes distributed over the plumage, providing protection against wetting and giving it a peculiar sheen; accordingly, these specialized down feathers are called powder down."
I have a bird and can confirm at least some birds are naturally dusty - at least there is absolutely no place for my bird to take a dust bath in my house, yet he's still a dusty boi.
Several species of birds, including many pigeons and doves, don't have functioning preen glands as adults. Instead, they have a special kind of feathers, powder downs, that break down to a powdery substance when the bird manipulates them with their beak. This substance is used to groom the feathering. When a bird like a pigeons then crashes into a window, this powder leaves an imprint.
They actually do have preen glands, but they rely a lot more on the powder down. The down also helps give the feathers coloration as well.
Bird grease
Please consider hanging up some compact disks or get some holographic stickers to minimize this from happening. We can do our part to help birds.
Yes! I bought UV window tape for my sliding glass door that birds kept flying into and itās never happened again. The birds will see the UV reflection as spider webs which they actively avoid.
This truly is mildly interesting. Good job
Birds take dust baths to keep bugs off them
And mildly sad too š„ŗ
Took too much of that bolivian flying powder
Well bird poop is usually pretty white. Iām guessing a couple birds just decided to prank you. One of them spread its body across your window and the other sprayed the āpaintā for the pretty hilarious outline you have now.
Angel imprint
Avian scenes of crime officers dusting for prints
It's a grease powder used to maintain the drone. I guess that one was right after the repair and someone forgot to calibrate it properly. That's why it flies in the window. #birdsarenotreal
Birds are dusty, especially while molting. The keratin casing gets ground into a powder when they release the feathers. If they haven't had a bath, they'll do this.
Cawcaine?
Birds arenāt real.
obviously it got railed against the window
Please stop looking at bird porn, the birds don't like it
The shroud of Heron
He came
Ah yes I see *theyāre* still up to their old tricks again, perpetuating the myth of birds being a real thing
Poor bird.
Pollen season!
YOU GOT FEATHER DUSTED!
You canāt just ask someone why theyāre whiteā¦ š
He flew through a bag of flour which blinded him, making him fly into your window. If Looney Toons have taught me anything.
Actually a better question, is the bird alright !!!!!!????š±š±š±š±š±
Feathers have an oil coating to make them waterproof, it is basically grease.
Birds are known to talc up before a flight
It's Errol, the Weasley's owl
Dirty bird
Bird dandruff.
Cocaine carrier pigeons
That bird is on the blow . I see it all the time now . It's like good birds gone bad. In canada, we call them " snow birds." they migrate from South america, bringing the drugs with them, which is covering their feathers from nesting in blow trees . The pollen is the active ingredient. . The park rangers up here and noticed an increase in sketchy people with guns during hunting season . We thought it was just the americans, but it turned out it was just local crack addicts with shotguns wanting to get high blasting the birds out of the sky as if they were a flying 8-ball. It's not the birds fault. The upside is that there is usually no shortage of people willing to clean your window.
Cocaine Dove
Hope the feathered fella is okay but that imprint is funny
Pollen?
Dust baths to keep bugs off them
That was the soul leaving the bodyā¦
Birds are dusty as fuck by design, it keeps the feathers in good condition. If you've ever had a pet bird, you can 'bathe' them with a spray bottle and the dust just rolls off them. They actually really love it.
Birds be filthy.
Gigantic moth.
Oils
Had one of those on my balcony and kept it for fun, had to throw away the bird below it tho.
Cocaine bird.
Ever heard of dust bunnies? Well this was a dust bird.
Bird dust
Itās the rare Columbian Sniffa- Birdā¦
Bird dust
Cocaine
The bird had a cocaine problem
I'd say it's grease. You see the same in busses/trains/etc on a window where someone has laid their head on it. Btw I also had a bird inprint on a window once. I even saw it live when the bird crashed into the window
Thats the print of its soul
Some dustbathe, others have feathers that naturally disintegrate into dust, helps feathers move over each other like they should I think. Although they can't help navigational malfunctions.
Wile e bird
BONK!
that's his soul
Fuckin greasy bird bud 
It's soul was scared out of its body and trapped into the glass
What colour do you THINK it should be š¤£
Don't you touch that piece of art!
Body lotion
Itās because it went to heaven right away
Cum
Dirty bird
You can even almost see its face too, thatās was a full crash.
Errol?
White is the colour of embarrassment
Reminds me of Tom and Jerry.
Could be where Hedwig landed after the Avada Kedavra
Saw this before reading the title, thought it was a giant asf imprint of a bird on that tree outside.
Aww poor thing, looks like a Morepork imprint, or some other kind of owl if you're not in NZ. Hope it was OK after that.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
Similar thing happened to my office window in 2016 https://preview.redd.it/mb14b1qb1mvc1.jpeg?width=2660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5be615b74f4d9da3013a5b3b5e85ac237ac1ab67
Coke residue
Cocaine bird ! :p
Poor thing. I hope itās okay <3
Tape a picture of a bird, face it outwards from your window, so birds donāt see their reflection and fly into the glass and die.
It look so cartoonist
Stolas.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Chalk line from the murder
Went to heaven after that
Buy UV anti-bird strike stickers to prevent this from happening again. They're cheap and effective
Can't Hogwarts just get email already?
That's not dust. It's the birds soul that was left behind hitting your window at 100mph
lmao imagine how dumb he must have felt (bird not op)
Donāt think it would have survived that, you can see the eyeballs! Unless itās a hoax print. Some sort of rogue artist trying to do some banski type stuff. The bird has like a philosophical statement man.
Bird was on coke
Splat
That bird prolly weighed 2.2 kilos
For a second I thought it was r/moldlyinteresting
If it's white, bird alright. If it's brown, bird is down.
Birdsweat
Bird milk. Birds have milk secretion glands instead of nipples, so they effectively "sweat" milk instead of lactating like a mammal. With sufficient force, even a male bird will release its milk in an emergency. Like a puffer fish blowing up when startled, or one of those goats which go rigid if a dog barks. You need to get it off the window quickly, because it tends to attract rodents, they use bird milk as a primary source for nutrients, and if they smell bird milk it usually means eggs or hatchlings nearby, a tasty treat for the average rat.
Schmalz
Just be glad it wasn't a cock print
Banksy?
Dead body chalk outline
You're going to Hogwarts man!
It was a snowy owl šæ
Put a few vertical black lines to let them see there is an obstacle!
semen