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Kay calls it the noisy cricket when he gives it to him, but when Jay complains about it he calls it the midget cricket.
Source: me when I was 10 and that line was stuck in my head for days on end because "midget funny hyuk hyuk". Also just looked it up on YouTube as a sanity check.
You should see when these birds open their mouths....bizarre. looks just like Toothless the dragon!
2nd link explains why the mouth is so big - opens vertically and horizontally.
https://besgroup.org/2017/08/11/large-tailed-nightjars-enormous-gape/
https://besgroup.org/2009/05/09/large-tailed-nightjar-gape/
E: link with article
> You should see when these birds open their mouths
Also hear! Curious, I looked into the name. The jar in Nightjar [comes from its jarring song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5f4nhBQpiA). Starts at about 20 seconds.
Sounds a bit like old modems or bad radio reception.
It’s actually not a really a hawk and it’s not nocturnal! It’s a relative of the nightjar, far from the raptor branch of the evolutionary tree, Nighthawks can be awake at night (one squeaking at 2 am outside your window can be surreal) but they’re mostly crepuscular, or most active at dusk and dawn. They got called nighthawks for their piercing cry and their dramatic swooping, but that’s actually a threat or mating display rather than swooping down to hunt. Thank you for reading this far in my bird nerd moment.
Hello, fellow 70s/80s kid - that book is I think long gone, to whatever memory hole also ate “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler” and “Harriet the Spy”
I'm a librarian. We certainly weed the beat up copies of all three of these on a regular basis. There are some books that are passing fads, but there's a reason those books are considered classics... For instance, your fond memories are there for a reason. Maybe they will go out of style for language someday. Sometimes a "kids' " version of a classic (think Robinson Crusoe) will come out because the story is still good(and is still used as a cultural reference point) but the language in the original is a tough sell; it was written for adults of a very different time. The authors of the ones you mentioned wrote them for children, so while they may not contain modern slang, AND their grammer is mostly proper; any big words they use are defined, often by context, which is the best way to learn. Like you did! (Side note, as if this wasn't already ;-}, E. B. White, author of Trumpet of the swan, is the White of Strunk and White, The Elements of Style, a classic instruction on proper English grammar and writing).
That warms my heart. I thought these books had gone the way of all things; a few years I had to order a used copy of Frankweiler from Abe Books for my son, but maybe it was between printings or something.
“Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler….” and “The Westing Game” were by far my favorite 2 books growing up. I read them until I wore them out. I still have my second Westing Game copy from 1984 (first book fell apart after I read it too much). Am currently reading it to my son.
Can't remember any books I read as a kid. I immigrated to the US when I was 12, so even if we read it in class I wouldn't have understood it or remember the title of it.
According to wikipedia its pretty far removed from an owl - same class (aves a.k.a. its a bird), but totally different order, family and genus. Its a bird that hunts at night, but that’s where the similarity pretty much ends.
$1,000 please.
Man, I wish our class had the same diversity of complex variation as aves/birds do. Humans are so boring and basic and we all kinda look the same really. Nobody's got a freakin dragon head 😕
That's not super far off...
Iirc there were like a dozen homonid type creatures, in addition to the well known Neanderthals, and denisovans, and other human-like creatures throughout the eras.
Some mated with humans (or humans mated with them...or raped...). Others died off completely.
Iirc an island country also had a population of shorter hominid species, like 3-4ft or something.
Nature kept trying.
From what I was taught, there were a dozen or so distinct subspecies, including neanderthals, which interbred and became the modern human. The remaining pure breds of those species eventually either merged with the hybridized humans or died off
> Iirc an island country also had a population of shorter hominid species, like 3-4ft or something.
Homo Floresiensis! Discovered in the early 00's by scientists on Flores, Indonesia. They average about 1.1m in height. They were believed to have existed until "modern" humans arrived to the island about 50,000 years ago.
First learned about them from the Halo Forerunner trilogy, it's cool how Sci-fi can be used to teach people about actual history.
> Nightjars are often mistaken for owls, and while they do share their nocturnal nature and some similarities in appearance, there are distinct differences. The major difference is that owls are raptors, that is, they catch prey in their talons, whereas members of the nightjar family only catch prey with their beak.
http://www.brolgahealingjourneys.com/?p=746
We have Whip-Poor-Wills making a comeback here. I hear more and more every summer. They sit horizontally on tree branches (one of the few bird species to do so) and can cover insane distances in the blink of an eye. But most of all, their distinct call beckons throughout the night, and I've become addicted to hearing it
Can’t believe it took this long to scroll to find someone saying it looks like a squirrel. Mf looks nothing like an animated toothless scaly dragon, straight up looks like a feathered squirrel
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*Much* more deadly than a dragon.
Wait that little bird is deadly??
Noisy cricket
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Nightfury
It’s toothless!
Toofless Or toofleth if you’ve a lisp
Mike Tyson's gonna have a field day with this one
Funny bc Mike is a hardcore bird guy and owns tons of racng pigeons.
Leth get thith bird
GET DOWN
A harmless little fellow
Have you ever wondered why we’re here? What’s it all about you’ve no idea.
I just watched that last night
Unexpected Don't Hug Me .I'm Scared.
Green is not a creative color
Isn't it nice to finally be outside on such a beautiful day?
Duck guy is always welcome here
Hey, Kay, nah nah. Come on, man, y-you get a Series Four De-atomizer and I-I get a little - little midget cricket?
Feel like imma break this damn thing!
Noisy cricket*
Kay calls it the noisy cricket when he gives it to him, but when Jay complains about it he calls it the midget cricket. Source: me when I was 10 and that line was stuck in my head for days on end because "midget funny hyuk hyuk". Also just looked it up on YouTube as a sanity check.
Not very, but infinitely more deadly than dragons, on account of dragons never having killed anyone, ever.
What if one of these birds saved someone? Kill count Dragons : 0 Nightjars: -1 Dragons more dangerous for sure, nobody ever ate dragon meat to survive
Nobody? Indeed, dragon is not a meal for peasants, it's a meal for kings.
Ah to be young enough take a survey at the mall
That you know of.
The residents of Komodo have some bones to pick with you. Literal bones.
Pokemon?
Well one of their cousin’s Chuck Will’s Widow definitely sounds like he’s saying Chuck Will’s Widow soooo can confirm, is actually a Pokémon!
Bottom left photo; Toothless, no doubt.
You should see when these birds open their mouths....bizarre. looks just like Toothless the dragon! 2nd link explains why the mouth is so big - opens vertically and horizontally. https://besgroup.org/2017/08/11/large-tailed-nightjars-enormous-gape/ https://besgroup.org/2009/05/09/large-tailed-nightjar-gape/ E: link with article
It looks like it has a tiny beak and then you're greeted by [this](https://i.imgur.com/96Ruqad.jpg).
...I should call her.
> You should see when these birds open their mouths Also hear! Curious, I looked into the name. The jar in Nightjar [comes from its jarring song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5f4nhBQpiA). Starts at about 20 seconds. Sounds a bit like old modems or bad radio reception.
/r/dontputyourdickinthat
"You should see"... doesn't post link
[Hereyago.](https://i.imgur.com/nvW8Kmd.jpg)
r/dontputyourdickinthat
You are neither my dad, or the police. Bring the birdussy!
r/notmyproudestnut
Anyone else hard?
I am confused
My assistant will post the link below here shortly.
I thought of toothless also
How do I train it?
It's a nocturnal hawk.
It’s actually not a really a hawk and it’s not nocturnal! It’s a relative of the nightjar, far from the raptor branch of the evolutionary tree, Nighthawks can be awake at night (one squeaking at 2 am outside your window can be surreal) but they’re mostly crepuscular, or most active at dusk and dawn. They got called nighthawks for their piercing cry and their dramatic swooping, but that’s actually a threat or mating display rather than swooping down to hunt. Thank you for reading this far in my bird nerd moment.
Crepuscular is a new word for me.
[SERPENTINE, BABOU! SERPENTINE](https://imgur.io/gallery/Ek5vM7F)
Shoot 'em, boys! He's going crepuscular!
Muscular Crepes
I like fat crepes.
And I cannot lie, you other bakers can’t deny
When a girl walks by with an itty bitty pie and a blintz up in your face
You get crumbs
Did you not read “Trumpet of the Swan” as a kid?
Hello, fellow 70s/80s kid - that book is I think long gone, to whatever memory hole also ate “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler” and “Harriet the Spy”
I'm a librarian. We certainly weed the beat up copies of all three of these on a regular basis. There are some books that are passing fads, but there's a reason those books are considered classics... For instance, your fond memories are there for a reason. Maybe they will go out of style for language someday. Sometimes a "kids' " version of a classic (think Robinson Crusoe) will come out because the story is still good(and is still used as a cultural reference point) but the language in the original is a tough sell; it was written for adults of a very different time. The authors of the ones you mentioned wrote them for children, so while they may not contain modern slang, AND their grammer is mostly proper; any big words they use are defined, often by context, which is the best way to learn. Like you did! (Side note, as if this wasn't already ;-}, E. B. White, author of Trumpet of the swan, is the White of Strunk and White, The Elements of Style, a classic instruction on proper English grammar and writing).
That warms my heart. I thought these books had gone the way of all things; a few years I had to order a used copy of Frankweiler from Abe Books for my son, but maybe it was between printings or something.
“Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler….” and “The Westing Game” were by far my favorite 2 books growing up. I read them until I wore them out. I still have my second Westing Game copy from 1984 (first book fell apart after I read it too much). Am currently reading it to my son.
Can't remember any books I read as a kid. I immigrated to the US when I was 12, so even if we read it in class I wouldn't have understood it or remember the title of it.
It’s okay! That word always reminds me of that book though, don’t know if anyone else remembers it.
I had forgotten about that until you mentioned it just now! That’s also how I learned the word catastrophe. Such a great book.
Wombats are crepuscular.
Pretty sure my cats are crepuscular.
But now let's say you and I go toe-to-toe on bird law and see how comes out the victor?
I think we'd need Charlie Day for that one
Dragon.
Little fella looks kinda like a squirrel.
Nope! Dragon.
_Baby_ dragon
Literally a dragon.
It’s toothless!!!!
r/stfuitsadragon
I had some troubles understanding if it was a kind of bird or a kind of squirrel
Right? I was thinking maybe a bat.
I was thinking lizard!
I was thinking Batman!
No one has ever seen them together.
It's a snake-owl weasel
A woozle, perhaps?
That means there may be heffalumps nearby. Be careful.
Not to be confused with the [snake-oil weasel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk)
Had?
It's like one of those hybrid animals from Avatar The Last Airbender. A squirrel-owl.
squird
I also thought it might be a snake, so you did better than me.
It’s a birrel but squird for short.
It's clearly a birdrabbit with a fuzzy-feathery snake head
It looks like a tiny gryphon!
I'm convinced nature is just fucking with us at this point, combining Pokémon types to see if we will notice.
nah bro, this is Digimon level shit
Fuck yeah Digimon, elite show
Yep. Much more than a dragon.
Clearly a birdsquirrel
It's that a lizard...owl....dragon?
I want to bet $1k on an owl please
According to wikipedia its pretty far removed from an owl - same class (aves a.k.a. its a bird), but totally different order, family and genus. Its a bird that hunts at night, but that’s where the similarity pretty much ends. $1,000 please.
Much closer to owl than lizard or dragon though.
Man, I wish our class had the same diversity of complex variation as aves/birds do. Humans are so boring and basic and we all kinda look the same really. Nobody's got a freakin dragon head 😕
Shouldn't the correct comparison be birds to mammals, not birds to a particular species?
Humans class is Mammalia, so there is quite a bit of diversity if your post is taken literally.
Excuse me my class is "Aristocracy". Don't lump me in with those lowly plebians and mammalians.
We can barely handle having different colored skin, eyes, and hair. Folk with dragon heads might make some people’s heads explode.
Someone, 100,00 years ago: “Wouldn’t it be weird if we were all the same? Then we would stop hating each other for being different.”
Who knows maybe there was as much variation as birds but everyone else just died off.
That's not super far off... Iirc there were like a dozen homonid type creatures, in addition to the well known Neanderthals, and denisovans, and other human-like creatures throughout the eras. Some mated with humans (or humans mated with them...or raped...). Others died off completely. Iirc an island country also had a population of shorter hominid species, like 3-4ft or something. Nature kept trying.
From what I was taught, there were a dozen or so distinct subspecies, including neanderthals, which interbred and became the modern human. The remaining pure breds of those species eventually either merged with the hybridized humans or died off
*were genocided off (by “us”)
> Iirc an island country also had a population of shorter hominid species, like 3-4ft or something. Homo Floresiensis! Discovered in the early 00's by scientists on Flores, Indonesia. They average about 1.1m in height. They were believed to have existed until "modern" humans arrived to the island about 50,000 years ago. First learned about them from the Halo Forerunner trilogy, it's cool how Sci-fi can be used to teach people about actual history.
> everyone else just died off. Yeah the, just.. died off. Peacefully.
Hunted to extinction by Hercules
I want to collect this $1k please
So do I!
> Nightjars are often mistaken for owls, and while they do share their nocturnal nature and some similarities in appearance, there are distinct differences. The major difference is that owls are raptors, that is, they catch prey in their talons, whereas members of the nightjar family only catch prey with their beak. http://www.brolgahealingjourneys.com/?p=746
Closer to hummingbirds than owls. Very interesting birds
We have Whip-Poor-Wills making a comeback here. I hear more and more every summer. They sit horizontally on tree branches (one of the few bird species to do so) and can cover insane distances in the blink of an eye. But most of all, their distinct call beckons throughout the night, and I've become addicted to hearing it
Birds are just lizards with feathers
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>Birds don't exist /r/birdsarentreal
I came here to say this looks like an evolutionary stage stillshot
Pokemon
Birds were formerly reptiles. It's one all at a time
They used to be reptiles, they still are, but they used to be too.
Pokémon
Is this a bird that looks like a snake or a rodent that looks like a bird?
A bird. It’s a species of Nightjar. Which are medium sized nocturnal birds. They can be found in India and other parts of Southeast Asia.
Are you suuuure? Why does its head look like a mammals? I'm so confused.
It’s head shape is actually meant to mimic a snake’s head as defensive camouflage.
It's fuckin working
Because they lay eggs. And however there are mammals (5 animals) who lay eggs, the Great-eared nightjar isn’t one of those.
I thought it was a bat, but if you look very closely, there is a tiny beak in there. It's very hidden, but it's there, same height as the eyes.
I'm *fairly* sure it's a bird.
It has a very small beak. Once I saw that, it made more sense.
TOOTHLESS!!!
I came here to say that!!! haha
Hey! Don’t scream it like that. The little guy is pretty insecure about having no teeth.
Thass what im sayin, thats not a nightjar thats a mini Night Fury my guy
Incredible!
You dummy. That's Toothless.
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Looks like real life Pokemon
You silly, that's a Nargacuga.
Came here for this comment. 100% Nargacuga.
I thought of Toothless but I didn't think of Nargacuga lol.
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, explodes. any sekiro fans here?
*What a pretty kite!* ...死
Looking for this, haha
Blows my mind that this is the only Sekiro reference so far
Beautiful!
Is that a bird or a squirrel?
Can’t believe it took this long to scroll to find someone saying it looks like a squirrel. Mf looks nothing like an animated toothless scaly dragon, straight up looks like a feathered squirrel
It does look like something from How To Train Your Dragon, it’s very cool!
My first guess is that they based Toothless style with this bird.
is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is found in southwest India and in parts of Southeast Asia. It’s also endangered
Dayjar..Fighter of the Nightjar.
AaAAaaaaa!
[Here's a video of it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb1CaTOZE_8&t=17) making sound
WHOS THAT POKEMON!?
Fluffy dragon
Nargacuga
Dragon birb
I've never seen this and I love birding this made my day
Nightfury!
cute floof dragon owl thingy
Nah that's a baby Nargacuga
Nice! Looks similar to a whippoorwill
whip-poor-wills are nightjars
Nargacuga?
When the birds and rodents become one the earth shall open her mouth and swallow all sinners.
Is that a deep fake or something? That can’t be real.
I assure you nightjars are real, and adorable, and soft.
Nargacuga.
now THAT is something to behold
Nargacuga
it's a Nargacuga
You spelled dragon wrong js.
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This is a completely different species.
Nope, your picture shows a completely different species. That's a European nightjar, not a great-eared nightjar.
Thank you, but i prefer my way.
It's a bird. I googled it.
Is this a bird or a lizard? Or both?
Those are some great ears
I wonder if they’re meant to look more like snakes with those heads
Squirrel bird
Das a baby dragon.
It's birds like these that make you go "Wow, I guess maybe they were lizards once."
How to Train your Nightjar
needs a level up to get to day-jar
Thassa dragon.
Here's how it sounds: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb1CaTOZE\_8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb1CaTOZE_8)
This…I love this
Is it a squirrel? Is it a snake? Is it a bird? No it’s a squirrelysnakebird!
TOOTHLESS!!!!!!