#1289 – Pluck
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
When I was a kid I believed that birds slept every night in their nest. It was a myth perpetuated by books, cartoons and television. Bears slept in a cave, fish sleep in the lake, people sleep in a bed and birds sleep in a nest. Somehow I never questioned why I would see so many birds each day but almost never see a nest.
Today’s Maximumble has hunger pains.
Tags: birds, kite, string
Aggressive birds. Maybe Biff shouldn’t have taught them about scissors…
Sure it was birds? More like revenge of the kite eating tree.
Nah, it was them darn angry birds.
Wait, what do you mean birds don’t sleep in a nest? Then where DO they sleep?
I think Biff should worry about the birds wanting his eyebrows. I hear hair is pretty good nesting material 🙂
Just in case Ann really was wondering, birds have a special muscle in their feet that clamp a branch and don’t allow them to fall off while sleeping. Nests are just for nesting season. More info about sleeping birds:
http://www.birdwatchersgeneralstore.com/snooze.htm
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9902/03/birds.eye/
Birds can sit almost anywhere and sleep, but a lot of them likes to actually lay down. We keep a box with a blanket placed under a tiny roof. It is for our cat who often sleeps there, or waits there until we see him and opens the door. A lot of times we won’t find our cat there. Sometimes he just isn’t there, maybe he’s inside or out wandering, and sometimes he’ll be replaced with a magpie. For a while we had one magpie who loved to sleep in that box when it got dark. Birds really like it if they can find something to use as a blanket.
We have seven parrots, one java finch and one zebra finch.
The zebra finch loves to sleep in her nest, and sometimes the java finch too sleeps in a nest. The parrots has to sleep in their cage and there’s no nest in there, but a lot of times they’ll crawl up beneath different blankets and fall asleep in broad daylight. We’ve got a “blanket cave” in one of our bookcases, and the parrots sure love that place.