So I was looking through some various pictures of birds flying, for a desktop background (I have a slideshow, but it's always nice to add some more into the mix), and while I usually go for parrots flying, I thought I could add in a predator bird to the mix, so I started looking up pictures of flying falcons.
But then I noticed something about the primary feathers, especially on the Peregrine falcon. Allow me to show a couple pictures.
Taking away from the pattern on the rest of the wings, do the spots on the primary feathers look familiar to anyone? Possibly similar to that of a small Australian parrot we all know and love?
I am predator! Hear me SCREECH! chirpThe reason why I felt compelled to point this out, is because of a conversation I had with Carolyn and Bob, back when Bob was looking to obtain his new cockatiels. If you want to see the conversation, you can view the thread
hereBob found the person on a dutch website for cockatiels. Not knowing one bit of dutch, I decided to let google automatically translate the page, and in place of the word "Cockatiel" (valkparkiet), was the word "Falcon" (valkjes). As Bob explained, it's a bit of a cute nickname, like how we call them tiels, rather than cockatiels.
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Yes, 'valkjes' translates to little falcons. But we like to refer to our cockatiels as 'valkjes' much like in english we use 'tiels' instead of cockatiels.
It's becaurse the diminutive (what 'valkjes' is from 'valk' - and 'valk' = 'falcon') makes them sound even more cute than what they are...
When you think about it, the name "falcon" does sound cute for a cockatiel, considering what they are (little birds with big personalities).
Just thought that might interest someone out there.
That's amazing. I might have to use that more often. Or falconet.
