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minus-squareMeatPilot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-28 hours agoI have yet to see this myself and I have a BUNCH of cardinals and blue jays. I do see the young “punk rocker” cardinals. But the Internet says it’s true, this is molting not mites. The only dark horror I witnessed was when a murder of crows came into the neighborhood and used my bird bath for their dark rituals for 2 weeks. Maybe I didn’t see this kind of cardinal because they didn’t complete the rites to summon it?
minus-squareThe_v@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours agoThe head is normal molting. The beak damage can be from mite.
minus-squareturtlesareneat@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·7 hours agoRethinking all those plans to befriend all the crows in the neighborhood
minus-squareLibertyLizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·13 hours agoI was gonna say I don’t think this is a normal part of the molting process…
Probably mites.
I have yet to see this myself and I have a BUNCH of cardinals and blue jays. I do see the young “punk rocker” cardinals.
But the Internet says it’s true, this is molting not mites.
The only dark horror I witnessed was when a murder of crows came into the neighborhood and used my bird bath for their dark rituals for 2 weeks.
Maybe I didn’t see this kind of cardinal because they didn’t complete the rites to summon it?
The head is normal molting. The beak damage can be from mite.
Rethinking all those plans to befriend all the crows in the neighborhood
I was gonna say I don’t think this is a normal part of the molting process…