Why do birds up in the sky come down close when you walk by?
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"...just like me, they want to be, close to you..."
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Up in the sky somewhere, at a guess.
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Because birds are happy sounding with their chirping and jovial antics, so when you come near, you make me very happy and alive. The Carpenters knew that very well!!
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These birds do not all have the same foot posture.  For example ostrich feet sit flat on the ground for walking while songbirds toes are designed to be able to curl and grip branches when they perch.  Birds like eagles have raptorial feet with long talons for capturing prey.  \nHope this helps
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When perching birds sit, a tendon on the backside of the ankle automatically flexes locking their toes around the branch. With feet locked, sleeping birds don't fall. As the bird stands up its feet release.
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I think it depends on the type of bird you are talking about and also if the birds are wild or domestic or for that matter used to having humans around.\nLarge birds generally dont scare so easily, especially if they are used to humans. Like parrots for example.\nSome many times I have come across pigeons just crossing the road leisurely even though I'm driving towards it. And some of them dont even fly until I honk at them.\nThe tiny birds generally scare more easily. But when I traveled to London the sparrows actually fed from the palm of my hand. Whereas I have 2 finches at home and although they think they are humans, they just dont let me touch them! LOL! I love them alot!
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They huddle under the leaves of shrubs, vines, and trees. Grassland birds nest within thick grasses. Many places, though, provide no shelter. Consequently, birds have evolved rain-shedding feathers. \n\nThey stay relatively warm and dry under their feathers. Still birds get wet. ...most birds don't seem to mind. If they can't find a place to hide, they'll simply stand in the rain. After the rain--and during--they fluff up their feathers to warm up and help themselves dry off."\n\nAfter a dry spell, even with shrubs and trees galore, they sit sometimes out in the rain and take showers.
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On the day of summer solstice, the sun is at it highest point in the sky, traveling the highest path across the sky. When the sun is to the side, there are shadows because a part of you is blocking the sun for something else. However, when the sun is right above you, the only thing you are blocking out from the sun is the place that you are standing in. Barely any shadows appear. The only shadows that appear are just the ones underneath you.\n\nHope this helps!
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coz ur closer to the sun...
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This is not a simple answer to explain in one or two sentences, so I will give it in two parts.  First, the basic reason:\n\nOvernight, the breezy conditions that was on the surface is lifted upwards.  This is because the surface becomes very stable with the loss of daytime heating.  The wind will blow above this layer of stable air until after sunrise when daytime heating will bring the winds back to the surface.\n\nNow the more detailed explaination.  In general, wind at night will decouple from the surface if...\n-there is no strong subsidence (sinking of air) like what you will find behind a strong upper level disturbance.\n-there is strong mixing (unstable airmass) in and ahead of a storms system\n-there is strong surface winds with upper level support. (winds blowing from the same direction through a deep layer above the surface)\n-near ridge or hill tops\n\n(Assuming no major weather changes are expected to occur overnight...)  During the night, with the loss of daytime heating, we lose two parameters that will keep the winds blowing near the surface.  The thermal gradient usually becomes weak and the surface cools.  A thin stable layer forms near the surface as heat rises to the top of this layer.  With time, this layer will thicken as warm air continues to leave the lower layer and replace by cooler air.  The top of this layer, you will find a temperature inversion.  This layer will seperate the higher winds that has lifted higher in the atmosphere and the very stable and near calm winds below.  Once the sun rises, the surface warms and starts to mix.  This will break the inversion and the winds will start to mix back down to the surface.  \n\nThis is also the reason why during the winter, sometimes you will find ground fog forming in a thin layer during the evening and then lifting to a low cloud or stratus right by sunrise; then "burning" off during the day.
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I have some incredible weather phenomena going on.\nSee my dark spot in my picture? That is a huge cyclone-like storm that would make it very difficult for birds to fly in. Oh, and take note that the dark spot is about the size of your planet Earth. Now that's giving Katrina a whole new perspective.
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Researchers have cracked the puzzle of how pigeons find their way home: they just follow the main roads.\n\nZoologists now believe the phrase "as the crow flies" no longer means the shortest most direct route between two points. They say it is likely that crows and other diurnal birds also choose AA-suggested routes, even though it makes their journeys longer.\n \nSome pigeons stick so rigidly to the roads that they even fly round roundabouts before choosing the exit to lead them back to their lofts.\n\nAnimal behaviouralists at Oxford University are stunned by their findings, which follow 10 years of research into homing pigeons. For the last 18 months they have used the latest global-positioning technology, allowing them to track the ground the birds covered to within one to four metres.\n\n"It really has knocked our research team sideways to find that after a decade-long international study, pigeons appear to ignore their inbuilt directional instincts and follow the road system," said Prof Tim Guilford, reader in animal behaviour at Oxford University's Department of Zoology.\n\n"For long-distance navigation and for birds doing a journey for the first time, they will use their inbuilt compasses and take sun and star bearings.\n\n"But once homing pigeons have flown a journey more than once, they home in on a habitual route home, much as we do when we are driving or walking home from work.\n\n"In short, it looks like it is mentally easier for a bird to fly down a road and then turn right. They are just making their journey as simple as possible".
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A rainbow is seen when the Sun is behind you and water is in the air in front of you. You can make one with a water hose or maybe see one in the air with rain in the area. Natural rainbows appear very large and several miles away. The top is all you can see because the ground in front of you blocks the lower portion of the rainbow. However, when seen from an airplane, rainbows are complete circles.
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If your shadow is produced by the sun, it gets bigger during the afternoon even if you don't "walk away from it": as the sun goes toward sunset, the angle between its rays and the soil becomes larger and larger, so in the triangle formed by your feet -your head - the point where the sun ray touching your head reaches the soil the side "your feet-point where the sun ray reaches the soil gets longer and longer.\n\nInstead, if your shadow is produced by an artificial light, it is always produce in the direction opposite to that of the light source. So, if you "walk away from it", you're in fact getting closer to the light source.\nThis again produces an angle between the light ray which touches your head and the floor which is larger than before; and so the explanation is similar to the one given above.
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You are unable to stand and loose items around you will move, including heavier items such as appliances.  If you are outside, sight lines will be altered as the ground itself ripples.  There is a deep, subsonic rumbling that vibrates your whole body.
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It's too cold for them up north. We get all the birds down here, in the Winter time. Actually we have birds all year round. Just different ones in the Winter.
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It's simply because two negatives repel. But if they are moving in different direction then too they will repel if they are close enough, but it would be hard to notice as they would already be moving away.