/Oh, the memories!

ahhhh delicious.

Delicious indeed!

Wokin' Wobin!

Hey, its got all kinds of colors on it. Why do they call it the white robin? Did they catch it eating ham and mayonnaise on Wonder Bread?

That's not a robin.

sonder: That's not a robin.

...It's a space station.

Just in time for Caturday.


/om nom nom....

"The fact that feisty robins sing throughout the winter to defend their territories is one of the reasons they have become associated with Christmas."

Also associated with Christmas:

The cursing and honking of soccer moms defending their parking places from other SUVs.

The crying of Jewish children opening their fifth pair of socks during the Festival of Light.

And ... And ...

/OK, that's all I got.

They're preemtively evolving for the coming global cooling.

IT'S THE ALBINO ROBIN OF CHRISTMAS, THE SLIGHTLY RETARDED SECOND COUSIN OF THE BLUEJAY OF HAPPINESS! MAKE A WISH!

African or European?

Ok, its a hawk, but what makes it a holiday hawk?

What about black tits?.

It's a tit!
Oh, no, it isn't.
Sorry. I just wanted to say that.

?

/that's 5 minutes of my life I'm never getting back

redface: IT'S THE ALBINO ROBIN OF CHRISTMAS, THE SLIGHTLY RETARDED SECOND COUSIN OF THE BLUEJAY OF HAPPINESS! MAKE A WISH!

I lol'd.

sonder: "That's not a robin."

Yes it is.
It's a European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
...The bird the American Robin was named after.

yogaFLAME: ?

/that's 5 minutes of my life I'm never getting back

I lol's too!

As a white guy eating a ham sandwich with mayo on wonderbread, I spite you.

Uhh that's not albino, it has coloring.

Nice stock photos there. The description in the article doesn't even match the damn photos.

Albino? Looks nice and tanned to me.



/You saw this coming, admit it.

stu1-1: sonder: "That's not a robin."

Yes it is.
It's a European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
...The bird the American Robin was named after.

So what's the airspeed velocity of the European Robin?

sonder: "That's not a robin."

Yes it is.
It's a European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
...The bird the American Robin was named after.

Thanks; I was puzzled. I was sure I remembered a story of a robin that had blown across the Atlantic, where it was regarded with wonder by the birders. People came from all over to see the rare site, and were treated to a hawk stooping and killing it in front of them.

Piebald, not albino. More common than full albinism.

Just to clarify:


European Robin


American Robin


Robin, Batman's little friend

That's just a dove, buttholes.

I could grill a couple of those. What do they taste like?

/It was in the 70s in Wilmington today.
//Suck it, most of America.

So, this is news of an ornithological nature. I guess that means that.....





EVERYBODY'S HEARD ABOUT THE BIRD

MAMAMAMA OOPA MOU MOU OOPA MOU MOU

So sorry, first thing that came to mind

"white robin" is not equal to (or greater or less than) an albino robin. seriously. when did white equal albino? Are we living in "The Princess Bride"?

facepalm.jpg

It's not an albino, it's piebald. Big difference, genetically. Methinks Mark Kehoe needs to take another biology class.

vicejay: Hmm... I took this picture of a white wild turkey just a couple of days ago. Apparently pretty rare in the wild.

I knew a drag queen fat kid in my HS class named "Robin Abilie" and I was all excited that he had a bad stage name and his own christmas show. And WHAT do I get?!!! THIS!

/I really, really did and really thought so.

Relatively Obscure .. that's hilarious

Leusisctic birds are pretty common. Here, have a GIS.

Relatively Obscure: vicejay: Hmm... I took this picture of a white wild turkey just a couple of days ago. Apparently pretty rare in the wild.

LOL. And already on icanhascheezburger.com.

dholway: Kill it with fire!!!

This is Fark. The proper way to kill a robin here is with a hammer....

Relatively Obscure: vicejay: Hmm... I took this picture of a white wild turkey just a couple of days ago. Apparently pretty rare in the wild.

lol'ed

/also, drunk

first off, yes, that's an albino robin. the pink pigmentation is all that remains.

Second, they aren't all that rare. I've seen them around my neighborhood, and there was an albino cardinal outside my office window for 3 years during the winter. I guess it just came back every year, but there it was. We used to sit there and watch it fly around in the scrubby bushes behind the office.

i could dig up some photos, but i'm lazy. It was a pretty bird. More pretty than this albino robin thing, and more pretty than a standard cardinal.

the beak stays pink/red, and so do a few parts of the bird, especially underneath, but the rest of the normally brown-colored feathers (this was a female cardinal) were stark white. Very, very pretty bird. Albino doesn't mean zero pigmentation. It just means no melanin. No brown.

That figures, those damn albinos are always stealing everyone's stuff. They even got pictures of the whole thing and he still isn't in jail? I bet he played the race card.

that bird would be way more awesome if it were the bird equivalent of the dude from "Powder".

Vicejay:

White wild turkeys (actually called "Smokey Greys") are actually pretty common depending on your local turkey population. Much more common than albinism or piebaldness. The Smokey Grey is a condition similar to either of those, but has additional components of affecting (with extremely rare exceptions) only the hens. It does not affect their ability to breed, however. They are hardly ever taken by hunters though, because they are naturally a lot more wary and skittish than regular turkeys, an already neurotically nervous bird.

I have seen a couple up here where I live (MI) over the last few years. Very cool looking.

Not impressed.

Ahhh. Memories of an epic photoshop contest... (new window)

Came here for a link to the robin thread.
Left happy!

/better just put a tarp over my keyboard now

We had an American Robin like that in our neighborhood for several years. It was kind of neat.