Astro Hacker News - Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling

mips_avatar |next [-]

There’s a mating pair of sandhill cranes that will raise chicks in my parents backyard every couple years. They’re surprisingly big birds and are really nice to see each year

cbdevidal |root |parent [-]

I have lived in northeast Florida all my life and never saw these until we moved 60 miles to the southeast. Just that little bit of distance and they’re everywhere. Really enjoy watching and hearing them.

chc4 |next |previous [-]

...And this is how I learn that the line "Steele Dakota's sandhill crane" from mewithoutYou's Nine Stories is talking about a bird species and not a literal mechanical crane. Apparently they have the largest sculpture of a sandhill crane in the world at 40ft (which makes more sense in the context of the song than a mechnical one!) https://www.ndtourism.com/steele/attractions-entertainment/f...

impure |next |previous [-]

It's Brightbill!

jeleh |next |previous [-]

Since the article is from June, does anyone know what happened to the gosling?

0xbadcafebee |next |previous [-]

"Somebody found a copy of the shell script I wrote for HPUX and is using it on Windows as if that's normal"

petermcneeley |next |previous [-]

Here is another Canadian Gosling that has also found itself south of the border

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Gosling

Adam2025 |next |previous [-]

[dead]

sparrish |previous [-]

These cranes will regret inviting a Canadian Cobra Chicken into their family. They are evil and will attack everything you love. (I hate geece)

nofriend |root |parent |next [-]

They're remarkably standoffish outside of the city. They'll scurry as soon as you come close, unless they're nesting, at which point they stand forlorn a marked distance away from their nest waiting for you to leave.

analog31 |root |parent [-]

Oddly enough, within town, they're remarkably tame. Maybe with enough humans around, they learn that we're not a threat, and it's costly to evade a non threat. Likewise the turkeys. My daily bike commute goes past a public golf course, and there's usually a pair of cranes there, sometimes with little ones. They ignore me.

brailsafe |root |parent |next |previous [-]

I mean, as far as I'm concerned they're entitled to be. I'd be pretty pissed off too if I was forced to nest in a ditch between the highway and the Walmart parking lot.

amitav1 |root |parent |next |previous [-]

How dare you insult the Waterloo Navy like that! Unpatriotic scum!

cyberax |root |parent |next |previous [-]

If you've got a problem with Canada Gooses, you've got a problem with me. And I suggest you let that one marinate.

weregiraffe |root |parent [-]

I always marinate my Canada Gooses before cooking

globular-toast |root |parent |previous [-]

I've heard this a lot about geese and swans. It doesn't match my experience at all. These birds won't just randomly attack you, but they will stand their ground and defend themselves and their families. I've come to believe the people who think these birds are aggressive are either the bully kids who chase ducks and pigeons but were shocked when a goose refused to be bullied, or people with zero empathy or respect and can't understand not to get in another animal's face or at least understand they don't want you to come any closer.

omnibrain |root |parent |next [-]

I live near a lake with lots of Swans. There is always one solitary one who is just into threatening everybody. Even outside breeding season and with no kids around. But I suspect he wasn't born this way, but some kids may have hit him with rocks or similar.

Amezarak |root |parent |next |previous [-]

During nesting season, the entire back half of my backyard is effectively inaccessible because the Canada geese will attack you if you come within hundreds of feet of their nest. They are also utterly fearless and would also attack cars that come too far down the driveway (while still being nowhere near the nest.)

Their behavior definitely varies situationally, I have been to parks where there were hundreds of them and the only problem from them was the enormous amount of feces.

DuperPower |root |parent |previous [-]

there was a Game about a psychopath goose destroying lives that didnt help

distances |root |parent |next [-]

I think you mean the Untitled Goose Game? That's a fun short indie game where you are in control of the goose. If someone associates those actions with real life geese, there's some big disconnect about how the world works.

lostlogin |root |parent |previous [-]

Untitled Goose Game!