This (belated) Thanksgiving episode features an exceptionally giggly discussion on spooky birds. It’s got a little bit of everything, from dinosaur-like cassowaries capable of disemboweling an adult human to mistaking owls for Mothman to meat raining from the sky!
You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Pandora, or iHeartRadio.
Here are our sources – links with images discussed in the episode are noted:
- Cassowary images: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/how-dangerous-are-cassowaries-really/
- Baby cassowary image: https://www.nashvillezoo.org/our-blog/posts/first-cassowary-hatches-despite-hazards
- Shoebill Stork images: https://allthatsinteresting.com/shoebill-stork
- Information on bird preservation & what you can do: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/bring-birds-back/
- Baby owls look like aliens: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a29802935/owl-video-aliens/
- Barred owl with red eyeshine: https://twitter.com/edpiotrowski/status/438503770834497536?lang=ca
- https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-great-kentucky-meat-shower-mystery-unwound-by-projectile-vulture-vomit/
- https://www.npr.org/2011/01/03/132631464/What-Killed-Thousands-Of-Blackbirds-In-Arkansas
- https://www.insider.com/scariest-birds-2019-1.
- https://lemonly.com/blog/owls-are-fcking-scary-an-infographic-argument
- https://craigmedred.news/2020/02/05/when-owls-attack/
- https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/aliens-or-baby-owls-man-shocked-after-spotting-spooky-looking-creatures-in-attic-2392311.html
- https://lithub.com/aliens-among-us-a-brief-history-of-the-owl/
- https://www.audubon.org/news/is-mothman-west-virginia-owl
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods_monster
- https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Balaeniceps_rex/
- https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/shoebill-balaenicipitidae
- https://www.firerescue1.com/fire-prevention/articles/firefighters-demonstrate-the-dangers-of-deep-frying-a-turkey-PB6hDnjromoNOD4n/#:~:text=Fire%20Rescue,more%20than%2035%2C000%20burn%20injuries.
- https://web.extension.illinois.edu/turkey/turkey_facts.cfm
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/08/cock-kills-man-california-cockfight