[lsiunsuex]

This contributes to a thought I had years ago. We used to smoke in the parking lot; a co-worker would feed the birds that came daily - contrary to fight club, feeding birds around a parking lot of cars does not cause the birds to poop on the cars lol

Anyway - I always wondered - how many birds are in the world? Then walk down the street, around town, where ever - how many dead birds do you see on the side of the road? 1 every once in a great while maybe?

Where do birds go to die? Or are they just eaten right away by their prey? Stray cats? Hawks?

[hzay]

We started feeding pigeons at our 8th floor apartment in india. Above us is just sky where lots of Kites circle. Over time, the pigeons decided our house is their... hospital? They'd show up here when sick. We'd leave food and water out for them, but they were often too sick to eat or drink. Sometimes they'd recover and fly away, but other times they just sit and wait for death (usually 2-3 days). Some corners of the terrace provide shelter from cats that hunt in the apartments so that could be why they choose this place.

Anyway in the last year, I have seen 4 pigeons die here (one eaten by cat). I think birds of prey or cats get to a lot of dying birds first, so we don't often see them. Even when the birds do die a non-violent death, they seem to be able to choose their spot for dying.

[oblak]

> Where do birds go to die? Or are they just eaten right away by their prey? Stray cats? Hawks?

I can distinctly remember seeing a pigeon nose dive mid flight at ~25m height right in front of me. It... just fell.

Still one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. To top it all, a stray cat caught it in literally less than a second after hitting the ground. Not sure if that was nature or someone shot the poor thing with an air gun or something.

[lapetitejort]

I've seen dead animals dissolve into nothing over the course of a few days. So many things feast on even the smallest of corpses. Nature recycles itself quickly.