THE ROVING PECKER PRESENTS: "The Yellow-Billed Magpie Is My Spirit Animal" by LMN!
Do you love birbs like I love birbs? If your answer is "yes," then please say hello to my spirit animal, The Yellow Billed Magpie, who's recently been visiting my backyard in the Sacramento Valley. If you haven't seen (or heard) one of these marvelous motherfuckers, it’s because you don’t live in Northern or Central California - which is the only places they are found. They're very exclusive that way.
Highly vocal, extremely territorial and an all-around badasses, this birb and his gang of squawkers are taking over our entire neighborhood. They're much too big to feed from our feeder, which is likely why they torment me with their calls. They even built a nest over a bald eagle’s in Orangevale, CA. Nesting over bald eagles takes some major cajones, dont'cha think?
When I worked at a local high school, I watched them hang out in the trees outside the cafeteria tables, since they were waiting to fight and screech over the scraps left when lunch was over. Sometimes they fought with each other for no apparent reason - a trait to which I can heavily relate.
Unique, beautiful, noisy, and supremely cunty, this birb embodies all that I strive for, but will likely never achieve - except the cunty part, which I seem to have that down pat, thank goodness. Did I mention that they were noisy? Because they are. Want to learn more about these birbs? I know you do.
Do you have a favorite birb you think we should know about? Tell us all about them by submitting a post or tell us about them in the comments. They don't have to be cunty birbs, but we do love them best, don't we?
Photo Credits: MacCauley Library/Brian Sullivan
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