They do the splits too, not a joke:
Very cool bird. :) https://birdfeederhub.com/facts-about-bearded-reedlings/
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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Eat your heart out, Van Damme.
Mathematicians and physicists like this.
Nah, too much air
That can be neglected.
careful, you might start validating physicists. "Assume for the sake of simplicity that the bird is a sphere"
“Assume a spherical bird in a frictionless vacuum”
Can we assume that all vacuums are frictionless? Makes the math easier.
Makes cleaning harder, though.
The runners on my vacuum are fucked so not in my case, no.
Borb
Please tell me it flies like a balloon.
It flies like a balloon.
They are in their own taxonomic family but that still does not stop people from calling them “bearded tits”.
We Brits like to use the original name:
https://www.bto.org/understanding-birds/birdfacts/bearded-tit
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bearded-tit
Big fan of tits.
Would you say it looks.... angry?
I read this in John Oliver's voice
This bird looks like it came straight out of angry birds
One time I was in a bird enclosure at a zoo and there was this Asian pigeon in there which looked like a short, fat peacock (but without the long tail). It was by far my favorite thing in there because of how squat and round it was.
Me, a physics educator: “Interesting!” takes note
Oh lawd he roun
Rotund.
This bird is in a black metal band
Am I the only one thinking it looks like Dr robotnik?
An actual Pokemon
What a beautifully rotund creature
Known as a Bearded Tit round these parts.
Nonsense, these three are clearly more spherical (Eagle owl)
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AC9BAX/eagle-owl-eggs-in-nest-three-bubu-bubo-spain-AC9BAX.jpg
