Talking Parrot
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Hi there.
If you read my Hello thread, you know I don't know a lot about birds (if you didn't, it will become pretty obvious as you read this), so please excuse any mistakes I may write.
So, in my yard there is a lemon tree, which attracts a significant number of birds. I don't know which kind of birds are they, but in a book about Mexico City I found several pictures of local birds, so it may be (based on pictures on the book and my non-expert observations) one of these:
1. Junco phaenotus
2. Toxostoma curvirostre
3. Calothorax lucifer
4. Pheuticus melanocephalus
I hope I wrote that correctly.
I'm under the impression it is most likely to be either 2 or 3 (or maybe it's none of them...), but I think you get the idea. It is a small bird from central Mexico.
So, this birds. The other day I was with a good friend of mine having some drinks, chatting, etc, when suddenly we see this flock of birds (they were on the tree), probably all the birds on the tree at that time, maybe 20-40 of them, started flying very erratically, like some kind of "bird hurricane", like they were... emm, fighting or something (but I'm not sure that was actually the case), but they were flying like, in a chaos, I mean, I've seen a lot of birds flying in a group, but they are generally "in order", this "V" formations and such, but this birds just started doing what I just described... and they continued, they kept flying like in this sort of "hurricane formation" and flying away. I mean, while they were flying in a chaos, they were at the same time "going away", until they eventually got lost in the distance.
Obviously, my friend (who knows as much as I do about birds) and I were very, very confused. I kept staring at the sky for over 10 minutes after they disappeared, and they didn't come back (at least not for the next few hours).
I do not recall seeing "another bird" (like a predator) or something that may have scared them, but again, I am no expert.
I apologize if this sounds stupid or confusing, I really have a hard time understanding what I saw, let alone explaining it properly.
I appreciate any insights you may have.
Nice day.
If you read my Hello thread, you know I don't know a lot about birds (if you didn't, it will become pretty obvious as you read this), so please excuse any mistakes I may write.
So, in my yard there is a lemon tree, which attracts a significant number of birds. I don't know which kind of birds are they, but in a book about Mexico City I found several pictures of local birds, so it may be (based on pictures on the book and my non-expert observations) one of these:
1. Junco phaenotus
2. Toxostoma curvirostre
3. Calothorax lucifer
4. Pheuticus melanocephalus
I hope I wrote that correctly.
I'm under the impression it is most likely to be either 2 or 3 (or maybe it's none of them...), but I think you get the idea. It is a small bird from central Mexico.
So, this birds. The other day I was with a good friend of mine having some drinks, chatting, etc, when suddenly we see this flock of birds (they were on the tree), probably all the birds on the tree at that time, maybe 20-40 of them, started flying very erratically, like some kind of "bird hurricane", like they were... emm, fighting or something (but I'm not sure that was actually the case), but they were flying like, in a chaos, I mean, I've seen a lot of birds flying in a group, but they are generally "in order", this "V" formations and such, but this birds just started doing what I just described... and they continued, they kept flying like in this sort of "hurricane formation" and flying away. I mean, while they were flying in a chaos, they were at the same time "going away", until they eventually got lost in the distance.
Obviously, my friend (who knows as much as I do about birds) and I were very, very confused. I kept staring at the sky for over 10 minutes after they disappeared, and they didn't come back (at least not for the next few hours).
I do not recall seeing "another bird" (like a predator) or something that may have scared them, but again, I am no expert.
I apologize if this sounds stupid or confusing, I really have a hard time understanding what I saw, let alone explaining it properly.
I appreciate any insights you may have.
Nice day.