Because birds don't give a fuck about private property. They perch wherever the fuck they want. Some birds are apparently as "intelligent" as children, but I think they're actually way smarter than the bourgeoisie specifically because private property and national borders are all meaningless to them. The entire natural world is anarcho-communist and even Homo sapiens was like this for 95% of our time on Earth.
"No, actually you're wrong because birds have territories they defend and therefore capitalism is natural and we should all embrace it."
Really? Do birds enslave other birds to make money? Do they ever eat more food than they need? I don't fucking think so.
Also, birds are complex. Some are loners. Others hang out together. Sometimes different species even hang out together.
There are also far more bird species on Earth than there are mammal species. In some ways the reign of the dinosaurs never really ended.
When I lived in the American puppet state of "South Korea" I remember hearing about the wildlife in the DMZ and how certain birds there would fly back and forth between the DPRK and the "ROK" because they didn't give a fuck about the border. Based fucking birds.
Also, sometimes I saw spoonbills in the "ROK." That was really cool.
Right now there's a bunch of bluejays freaking out about something just outside my house. They get super active when it rains for some reason. That's why I'm writing this.
Cowbirds enslave other birds in a way, although not to make money. They lay their eggs in other birds’ nests and will kill the other bird’s babies/eggs if the other bird does anything to the cowbird baby.
Birds also definitely eat more food than they need, have you ever seen a fat pigeon?
But overall I agree, birds are cool. I feel like being a seagull at the beach would be like, the ideal life.
Oy, fuck cowbirds then.
As for pigeons, it might be too much human / capitalist influence on them. Regardless, pigeons may get fat, but capitalists amass more food than they could ever possibly eat while deliberately starving all the people around them.
Seagulls seem to do okay. I once saw a seagull trick a tourist. The tourist was sitting on the beach on his blanket guarding his family's food. A seagull crept up to steal it, but the tourist shooed him away. The seagull flew up into the air and hovered above the tourist for a few minutes, waiting for him to lose interest. Eventually he did, whereupon the seagull flew down and snatched his food. It was impressive.
I'm down with birds, but not seagulls. Fuck those guys
Good point about the pigeons. They’re not really wild animals anyway, they’re domesticated animals that we brought with us everywhere we went. Kinda the same as feral cats but without the genociding every other creature in their environment
except by the coast where they're native
Pigeons are generally underweight and suffering from varying amounts of malnutrition. To tell the body condition of a bird you usually have to pick it up and feel it's keel bone. If a pigeon (or any bird) looks fat it's usually just puffed up. You'd be surprised about how much of that poof is just feathers.
Also pigeons are not wild animals and they depend on humans for survival. If you want to feed pigeons (or any other birds for that matter) never feed them bread, they eat grains and seeds.
Sorry for the pigeon psa, I just love pigeons