enjoying a hot summer day

[NickAVD]

Wow that's impressive
I can identify a bird as a bird lmao

I completely agree with you, I can say that there are sparrows, pigeons and crows. Any bird of strange coloring baffles me. Probably all bird owners judge us the same way we treat everyone who calls our dragons iguanas.

 

[IAmAMirage]

Wow that's impressive
I can identify a bird as a bird lmao

Lol, find a picture of a common bird and I can probably tell you what it is and its latin name. Example: Boat-Tailed Grackle: Quiscalus major; a passerine bird of the family Icteridae. When grackles are in a group, they are referred to as a "plague"

I completely agree with you, I can say that there are sparrows, pigeons and crows. Any bird of strange coloring baffles me. Probably all bird owners judge us the same way we treat everyone who calls our dragons iguanas.

Yes! My friend recently told me she loved my "gecko"...I gave her a nice bombastic side eye in a true beardie style lol

 

[xp29]

I completely agree with you, I can say that there are sparrows, pigeons and crows. Any bird of strange coloring baffles me. Probably all bird owners judge us the same way we treat everyone who calls our dragons iguanas.

I was in a convenience store and had Ruby with me. There was a long line, and there was a group of Hispanic guys in front of me. One of them spotted Ruby. He started telling the others "LOOK LOOK" an Iguana lizard in broken English. I smiled and very politely told him that she is a bearded dragon . He smiled great big and started telling the others "LOOK LOOK IT'S A BEARDED DRAGON IGUANA LIZARD " I gave up and just said yup it's a bearded dragon Iguana lizard lol

 

[xp29]

Lol, find a picture of a common bird and I can probably tell you what it is and its latin name. Example: Boat-Tailed Grackle: Quiscalus major; a passerine bird of the family Icteridae. When grackles are in a group, they are referred to as a "plague"

Yes! My friend recently told me she loved my "gecko"...I gave her a nice bombastic side eye in a true beardie style lol

We have grackles here so I can identify those, at least the ones we have here.

 

[IAmAMirage]

We have grackles here so I can identify those, at least the ones we have here.

What kind of grackles though?

 

[ChileanTaco]

I was in a convenience store and had Ruby with me. There was a long line, and there was a group of Hispanic guys in front of me. One of them spotted Ruby. He started telling the others "LOOK LOOK" an Iguana lizard in broken English. I smiled and very politely told him that she is a bearded dragon . He smiled great big and started telling the others "LOOK LOOK IT'S A BEARDED DRAGON IGUANA LIZARD " I gave up and just said yup it's a bearded dragon Iguana lizard lol

Here in Chile people also often refer to my bearded dragon as an "iguana", also likely as people are more used to those (at my workplace there are also plenty of people from countries that have green iguanas, like Bolivia, Costa Rica).
Pets other than dogs and cats are here usually sold by their latin name, so in the pet store it's labeled as "pogona vitticeps" on the cage, "pogona" for short (e.g. when somebody in the pet store doesn't know me and asks for what kind of pet I want the worms), but as they are so rare Taco usually gets mistaken for an iguana.
I also was once asked if he has a shell like a turtle (Taco was pancaking).

There is a Spanish name for it, "dragon barbudo", but people usually find it hyper funny just as likely never having heard of it.

 

[xp29]

What kind of grackles though?

Just the common. They are black (make) and brown (female)

 

[IAmAMirage]

Just the common. They are black (make) and brown (female)

Hmm, do you mean the common grackle? You could also have the Great-Tailed grackle. People often get them mixed up.

Do the males look more like this:

Or

Like this:

Sorry for the late response!

 

[xp29]

Hmm, do you mean the common grackle? You could also have the Great-Tailed grackle. People often get them mixed up.

Do the males look more like this:
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Or

Like this:
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Sorry for the late response!

The first one. They are solid black.

 

[xp29]

The first one. They are solid black.

They seem to be reasonably intelligent to

 

[IAmAMirage]

The first one. They are solid black.

So you have the Great-Tailed grackle. The common grackles have the brown body.

They seem to be reasonably intelligent to

They are very intelligent. Around me they will leave presents for us at the bird feeders or in the bird bath. Coins, shiny rocks, etc. Anything shiny or sparkly.

 

[ChileanTaco]

Yes, like crows they are very intelligent (similar to parrots).
In behavioral biology experiments, they can also solve things like "has somebody seen me while I was hiding food" (not only if that other animal or human was present, but could they really have seen it, like somebody behind a curtain or facing the wall was present but has seen nothing), trick others etc. So they can take over the perspective of others.

 

[xp29]

So you have the Great-Tailed grackle. The common grackles have the brown body.

They are very intelligent. Around me they will leave presents for us at the bird feeders or in the bird bath. Coins, shiny rocks, etc. Anything shiny or sparkly.

Now thats friggen cool.

 

[xp29]

Yes, like crows they are very intelligent (similar to parrots).
In behavioral biology experiments, they can also solve things like "has somebody seen me while I was hiding food" (not only if that other animal or human was present, but could they really have seen it, like somebody behind a curtain or facing the wall was present but has seen nothing), trick others etc. So they can take over the perspective of others.

I used to feed the crows at work. They would stack the crackers so they could carry more. They'd hide them in the leaves. I'd see othets trying to watch so they could steal them. The crows with the crackers would "stash" the crackers several times before actually stashing them so the others wouldn't be sure which place to look. It always amazed me that they are that smart and devious. That is phenomenal problem solving in an animal.

 

[IAmAMirage]

I used to feed the crows at work. They would stack the crackers so they could carry more. They'd hide them in the leaves. I'd see othets trying to watch so they could steal them. The crows with the crackers would "stash" the crackers several times before actually stashing them so the others wouldn't be sure which place to look. It always amazed me that they are that smart and devious. That is phenomenal problem solving in an animal.

The Grackles do that too. Something slightly gross but also really cool is that they will take the fecal sacks from their chicks out of the nest and put them in other places so other birds wont be able to tell where the nest is.