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make this into a wallpaper. basically all of the ones in this gallery should be wallpapers but this ones powerful. great gall motts.
That bird's head, from this angle, seems detached from its body. Creepy.
that looks like a carcus of the moth man, looks almost too large to be a bird
Motts - How big was this thing?
The birds head probably was separated from its neck. It was probably trying to escape, and, since birds don't perceive glass? He broke his neck on the window.
Your average pigeon sized bird... I believe the head was still intact.
that looks alot bigger then a fricken pigeon!
Poor Bird.
dinner anyone?
No Thanks Joe!!!!
Whoa whoa ..... great f'ing angle. That thing looks mammoth.
like I said before: one less to worry about
Looks like plant's bones...dead body of the tree.... :)
Looks like a giant modern art cicada....
HEY!!! CICADA SONG!!
Poor thing got trapped in there and starved to death and slowly died.
Aw. Poor birdie. :'(

*sigh*
Freedom was just out of reach
That's one of the biggest pigeons i've ever seen
anybody else getting hungry....
makes me sad thinkin of a bird getting caught in there. flyin around smacking the glass. eventually starving to death.
I hope you were wearing a respirator Motts. Pigeons and pigeon feces also, carry a scary amount of nasty diseases. Over half of them can be fatal.
Also, Jade Jean, don't feel too bad for it. Though the pigeon did not deserve to die in this manner if it hit the window (which i'm guessing it did) it would have died almost instantly. Being a taxidermist, i've seen people bring in birds that died from this kind of thing all too often. All bird necks are extremely fragile and break very easily causing them to die before they even hit the ground. Unfortunately i've even seen a cooper's hawk that died in this manner.
Kind of a parallel to the patients here. I picture them like this bird, trapped here, then slowly dying an agonizing death. The only difference is that the patients were dying inside as well as out. Very moving
just like the bird and the rat and the cat ya found omg
i use to get in this hospital wit alot of my friends for thrills we use to go at night one night we went wit a video camera and we caught voices shadows all types of stuff and in every room on the end of the wings of the hospital there was at least one or two birds wit there heads twisted completly around wat did that i dont know till this day but everytime we went there it was always something different it wasent all ways nice either to bad they opend it up again use to be alot of fun
"Wednesday, 09-24-2008
By: Wormfood
I hope you were wearing a respirator Motts. Pigeons and pigeon feces also, carry a scary amount of nasty diseases. Over half of them can be fatal."

I know this is a rather old post, but as an ornithology buff I have to point out that this is simply not true. You are far more likely to get a disease from a pet bird than a wild one, including pigeons--who, by the way, are no more diseased than any other wild animal. The idea that pigeons and their feces are a major contaminant is basically just an advertisement for the pest control industry, and only popped up in the last 35 years or so.

You can check out public health records for more info--there have literally been about 10 wild pigeon-related illnesses in the last decade reported in the U.S.
Er, cases of illness, that is. You can only get 3 diseases from pigeons (histoplasmosis, cryptococcosis, and psittacosis.) and you're pretty much only likely to get them if you've already got a compromised immune system.

NY.gov: http://www.nyc.gov/htm...epi/epi-pigeon.shtml
Chicken!
That's sad, that bird looks very bizarre, I thought it was Palm Tree leaves at first
EW EW EW EW EW!!!!!!!
DRT (Dead Right There)

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