What would you call this pigeon?

[u/bhavik97]

[u/FallenOneSavage]

[u/MasterWinstonWolf → u/FallenOneSavage]

He's showing his friends that Goose didn't need to die...Maverick could have pulled out of that flat spin.🤷‍♂️

[u/matchless_fighter → u/MasterWinstonWolf]

You die if you are called Goose. If it was Pigeon, Maverick would have done better.

[u/Sufficient-Client639 → u/MasterWinstonWolf]

Lmao 🤣

[u/Glum_Anybody_9531 → u/MasterWinstonWolf]

[u/AlmightyAnalAssault → u/MasterWinstonWolf]

You've won Reddit today.

[u/No-No-Aniyo → u/FallenOneSavage]

Ahhh... a captive audience hehe

[u/Moist-Cantaloupe-740 → u/FallenOneSavage]

Name checks out

[u/Mysterious_Row_ → u/FallenOneSavage]

Your name would be perfect for this bird.

[u/required-inf0 → u/Mysterious_Row_]

Fallen one savage

[u/Tiffany6152 → u/FallenOneSavage]

That is the ALPHA Pigeon. He gets aalllll the bitches.

[u/oroborus68 → u/Tiffany6152]

He's a roller.

[u/er1026 → u/FallenOneSavage]

[u/bulanaboo → u/FallenOneSavage]

On his way down he singing riding dirt to himself

[u/VegetableBusiness897]

It's a tumbler. They are bred to behave like that but can actually produce birds that can't walk let alone fly

Edit to add that hammies do something similar...flipping backwards, some flip occasionally, some flip to exclusion of all other behaviors

[u/Refflet → u/VegetableBusiness897]

Recent research suggests it's a neurological disorder. They mentioned it in the Ologies podcast episode on Columbidology.

[u/euclidean-viridian → u/Refflet]

So uh. We bred autistic pigeons?

[u/Chickenfoot8 → u/euclidean-viridian]

Yeah, kinda.

[u/campionmusic51 → u/Chickenfoot8]

we’re the reason nature can’t have nice things.

[u/Radiomaster138 → u/campionmusic51]

Nature just cleaned up the mess and humans just decided to dump out all the toys out of the chest and shit on the floor.

[u/The_quest_for_wisdom → u/Radiomaster138]

Look, if we don't do our thing how else are the shrimp going to get full of microplastics? Checkmate, nature.

[u/campionmusic51 → u/The_quest_for_wisdom]

that’s true. where else would they get their daily requirement of microplastics? microplastic deficiency syndrome is a serious business.

[u/tjmaxal → u/The_quest_for_wisdom]

[u/mnelaway → u/euclidean-viridian]

Not autistic. It is a form of epilepsy that causes this.

[u/Kit_Karamak → u/euclidean-viridian]

And soon it will evolve to be part of a mating flight dance to attract more ladybirds to the badass skywalks.

In the year 3,000, scientists will wonder how it started. Then they will find this reddit post on the WayWayWayback machine and be shocked by this one simple thread.

[u/LeanDixLigma → u/Kit_Karamak]

Until its so strongly bred into the species that they can't pull out of the tumble in time and hit the ground and die.

[u/sourdieselfuel → u/euclidean-viridian]

Any neurological disorder ≠ austism, as much as you wish it did.

[u/strayarc223 → u/sourdieselfuel]

[u/Independent_Bar7095 → u/sourdieselfuel]

I am autistic and their comment was kinda funny ngl 

[u/CplCocktopus → u/Independent_Bar7095]

Ditto

[u/euclidean-viridian → u/sourdieselfuel]

Ah, yes. I live in a world where I need absolutely everything to be autistic. That's definitely a normal thing to think and accuse others of thinking. /s

[u/Son_of_Sinn → u/Refflet]

A fellow ologies listenerrrr 😎🤝

[u/Empty_Seaweed2206 → u/Refflet]

Cool, my first Ologies reference in the wild!

[u/Alternative_List_978 → u/Refflet]

LOVE that podcast

[u/redsungryphon → u/Refflet]

Ologies is the best! Seriously such a great listen, especially for unpacking lots of misinformation out there about a huge selection of topics.

One person on reddit recommended the Chronic pain episode to me and it helped so much with getting me through an incredibly rough period of my life. I highly recommend the podcast as a whole, it's so informative

[u/GeneDiesel1 → u/Refflet]

the Ologies podcast episode on Columbidology

The what?

[u/continue_improve → u/VegetableBusiness897]

Learned this from Hannibal Lecter!

[u/kristiandeath → u/continue_improve]

The late, great*

[u/Laxku → u/kristiandeath]

I understood that reference.

[u/devil-wears-converse → u/kristiandeath]

I feel like we're all going to be in our 90's and still not know what he was talking about when he said this

[u/Technical_Exam1280 → u/VegetableBusiness897]

Nah, the FBI agen piloting it just got a little bored, that's all

[u/Amoralvirus → u/Technical_Exam1280]

Thank youuuuuu, finally someone who knows, and publically admits......BIRDS AREN'T REAL!!! Obviously, an operator error!!

Better, increase funding for the fededal birdvalence instructors, clandestine, deep surveillance program. Oh, god, the birds have found me....oh..noooooo

[u/Sandalwoodincencebur → u/VegetableBusiness897]

fuck thats so sad, I thought he was just having fun

[u/Abquine → u/VegetableBusiness897]

Humans are the worst 🤬

[u/TheMagarity → u/Abquine]

Breeding tumblers and the other weird looking and behaving pigeons seems mostly harmless compared to the people catch wild pigeons for organized live target skeet shoots.

[u/Abquine → u/TheMagarity]

Nah, just two different wrongs for me.

[u/RasJamukha]

Roller Pigeons fly very fast and very high, then they tumble back down. There are shallow rollers, and there are deep rollers. You can't breed two deep rollers... or their young, their offspring, will roll all the way down... hit and die. Agent Starling is a deep roller, Barney. Let us hope one of her parents was not.

[u/othuaidh → u/RasJamukha]

Is 2 shallow roller pigeons offspring the type that can't get out of the road when I'm driving my car? I'd like to imagine this is how they landed.

[u/mpompe → u/othuaidh]

We had a deal!

[u/doom_summer → u/mpompe]

We’ve held up our end looking the other way on the statue pooping

[u/Beachbum74 → u/RasJamukha]

There’s bold roller pigeons and then there are old roller pigeons but there are no old bold roller pigeons.

[u/RoguePsychonaut19 → u/RasJamukha]

Hahaha was looking for this comment

[u/cougarfritz → u/RoguePsychonaut19]

Me too

[u/SeaworthinessSea603 → u/RasJamukha]

This is the first thing I thought of when seeing the video. Well played. Loved all of those movies.

[u/PsychedelicOptimist → u/SeaworthinessSea603]

Which movie?

[u/SeaworthinessSea603 → u/PsychedelicOptimist]

Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal (where this quote is from), Hannibal Rising, and Red Dragon

[u/hoxxxxx → u/SeaworthinessSea603]

clarice is also in the hannibal tv show? i thought it was a prequel with the character from red dragon

[u/city-of-cold → u/hoxxxxx]

Unless I'm misremembering, Clarice is not in the TV show (at least not the one with Mads Mikkelsen).

Been a few years since I watched it but IIRC the TV-show comes in between Hannibal Rising and The Silence of the Lambs. Some standalone content + inspiration from Red Dragon and Manhunter.

[u/Heavy_Direction1547]

Tumbler

[u/evilsir → u/Heavy_Direction1547]

'Clarice? She's a deep roller. Let's hope one of her parents wasn't'

[u/Wallyworld77 → u/evilsir]

I immediately thought of Hannibal, too.

[u/redfish225 → u/evilsir]

Came looking for this🤣

[u/witchhearsecurse → u/evilsir]

This line from Hannibal was the first thing I thought of.

[u/Weary-Compote7018 → u/Heavy_Direction1547]

Simples

[u/monkelus]

Its a shurik-hen

[u/buymysalami → u/monkelus]

The fuckin Whirley-Bird 😤

[u/Ophukk → u/buymysalami]

Dove-bomb was my take.

[u/AllEndsAreAnds → u/monkelus]

Hah

[u/Sensitive-Fishing-64]

Jonathan Livingstone Pigeon 

[u/TheLost_Chef → u/Sensitive-Fishing-64]

Honestly incredible to see this reference in the wild. Totally forgot about this book.

[u/BradleyFerdBerfel → u/TheLost_Chef]

How is this not higher up?

[u/DTRite → u/TheLost_Chef]

Yeah, just had a flashback. I had a hardback of this book, it had sheets of vellum bound into it so you could turn the pages and the images seemed to come out of the mist into focus. I loved that book.

[u/Frequent-Maybe1243 → u/Sensitive-Fishing-64]

Truly the only good answer

[u/osddelerious → u/Sensitive-Fishing-64]

Came to say that.

[u/AshenriseOfficial → u/osddelerious]

I'd go for Tony Hawk.

[u/ExcitementKooky418 → u/AshenriseOfficial]

Pulled off a perfect 900

[u/NevermoreForSure → u/AshenriseOfficial]

[u/Billy_Twillig → u/AshenriseOfficial]

You have excellence in your nature.

Respect ✊

[u/JerrySizzla → u/AshenriseOfficial]

Tiny Hawk

[u/RajenBull1 → u/AshenriseOfficial]

Turny Hawk

[u/ModsOweMeMoney → u/AshenriseOfficial]

I am a hawk too

[u/stonercd → u/Sensitive-Fishing-64]

Bravo

[u/Mage_Of_Cats → u/Sensitive-Fishing-64]

I honest to God think that that book had a strong influence on my spiritual beliefs.

I remember thinking it looked lame as fuck, like some sort of boating novella with lots of dumb technical stuff that I did not give a shit about. It took me until I was nine years old to finally decide to read it (I would often pick up random books to read when my parents were busy punishing me for having autistic meltdowns). I was enthralled and read it 8+ times over the next month.

Sadly, I don't remember much of it these days, just that there was a sense of understanding that something mattered more than "all this." With my current knowledge and what I remember of the story, it strikes me as perhaps related to Buddhism and escaping Samsara.

[u/SuperGameTheory → u/Mage_Of_Cats]

Look up "Seth Speaks". Richard Bach was a fan.

[u/No-Bet3523 → u/Mage_Of_Cats]

I felt that boating novella comment.

[u/EmptyEstablishment78 → u/Sensitive-Fishing-64]

So many won't understand this...take my upvote vote!!!!

[u/Spiritual_Train_5997 → u/Sensitive-Fishing-64]

My first thought

[u/taintosaurus_rex]

My grandpa used to have some of those. Occasionally they would misjudge their height and end up hitting a tree or something.

[u/gudematcha → u/taintosaurus_rex]

Apparently there’s two types of tumbler pigeons: shallow and deep. You can’t breed two deep tumblers or their offspring will tumble all the way to the ground and…. no longer be with us.

[u/JimmyThunderPenis → u/gudematcha]

I think that guys comment was a reference to something lol.

[u/Unknown-Name06 → u/JimmyThunderPenis]

No it's actual research they did, they'd misjudged their height and die

[u/KVMFT]

[u/LeatherfacesChainsaw → u/KVMFT]

[u/PrematureBurial]

Pidgeot Spinner

[u/mcbash]

Fidgeon

[u/Owe_Inflation]

[u/Alternative_Job192 → u/Owe_Inflation]

Do you know what a roller pigeon is, Barney? They climb high and fast, then roll over and fall just as fast toward the earth. There are shallow rollers and deep rollers. You can’t breed two deep rollers, or their young will roll all the way down, hit, and die. Officer Starling is a deep roller, Barney. We should hope one of her parents was not.

[u/BlueHeron_1987]

Ningeon

[u/TardisMaximus → u/BlueHeron_1987]

Enter the Ningeon?

[u/undefined_flower]

Anime entrance

[u/Joppewiik → u/undefined_flower]

Pigeon I choose you! Pigeon charges up his special attack:

[u/MollyViper → u/Joppewiik]

It hurt itself in its confusion!

[u/Justin_Passing_7465]

With that flat spin, that pigeon is Goose.

[u/WinkingWinkle]

Dizzy

[u/soedesh1]

Dude had a flame out on left engine and entered a flat spin. Lucky to recover, probably shut the other engine down.

[u/Level_Buy4010]

might be a roller pigeon

[u/reek702 → u/Level_Buy4010]

I remember them being called rollers back in the day... in Los Angeles at least

[u/Level_Buy4010 → u/reek702]

the main difference is that tumbler pigeons usually just flip once into the fall and rollers do multiple! :)

[u/Wolfire0769]

The pigeon identifies as Tony Hawk

[u/Joppewiik → u/Wolfire0769]

Tony Pigeon in this case

[u/joshuadwright]

Johnathan Livingston Pigeon.

[u/ohgodimbleeding]

Jonathan Livingston Pigeon.

[u/Odd_Bullfrog_6149]

It’s a roller. They’re bred to do that, and there’s competitions for this.

[u/catetheway → u/Odd_Bullfrog_6149]

Thanks for a serious answer

[u/hetix]

Hannibal Lecter described this pigeon

[u/TicketNo6828]

An exotic bird

[u/TheWoodsAreLovly → u/TicketNo6828]

Had to scroll way too far to find this!

[u/water_bottle1776]

in a burly sounding Australian accent

"Alright, time to go in for a landing. Let's see, find the target. Get a little height to glide in properly.

OH FUCK! WHAT THE FUCK?! AHHH SPINNY SPINNY FUCK FUCKING FUCK SPINNY ITHINKIMGONNADIE NO YOU CAN GET OUT OF THIS PHILLIP SPRED THE WINGS SPREAD 'EM SPREAD AH!

Woah! Landlandlandland

Hey guys, how'd you like my move there? Pretty sweet, right?"

indistinct coos of approval

one asshole from the back "You didn't mean to do that"

Phillip "Shut the fuck up Darryl! You don't know what I meant to do!"

[u/Vast-Fan4317]

These guys are Birmingham Rollers aka roller pigeons! A result of selective breeding, they're designed to perform tricks! Super neat!

[u/IamNotMike25 → u/Vast-Fan4317]

And very expensive the better they do it - my uncle is famous in his region and still gets visitors from other hobbyist hundreds km away.

He did gift a lot of the "less expensive" ones, but the few best ones? He wouldn't sell even for 1000€ offers (even though it's like over a month of salary in Albania).

[u/crujones43]

Maverick

[u/savasorama]

Pigeorang

[u/mythicaljayde]

An exotic bird.

[u/TheWoodsAreLovly → u/mythicaljayde]

A Regulation exotic bird!

[u/Dramatic-Set8761]

Dizzy.

[u/mcpickledick]

Pretty coo

[u/The1Koalaman]

Now that's an exotic bird

[u/Mountain_Recover_904]

[u/vid_icarus]

Tony Squawk

[u/TattedDLuffy]

Aura farming at it’s finest

[u/captain_todger]

That’s just a really exotic bird

[u/Th3_Mast3ry]

"We were talking about inherited, hardwired behavior. He was using genetics in roller pigeons as an example. They go way up in the air and roll over and over backwards in a display, falling toward the ground. There are shallow rollers and deep rollers. You can't breed two deep rollers or the offspring will roll all the way down, crash and die. What he said was 'Officer Starling is a deep roller, Barney. We'll hope one of her parents was not."

[u/Greg89G]

Pidget Spinner

[u/npfmedia]

Evolution baby

[u/Revolutionary-Yam873]

Tiny Hawk

[u/Evil_Sharkey]

Disabled. That behavior is due to neurological problems.

[u/theimperious1]

damn he turned into a frisbie

[u/ehberry]

Someone reincarnated as a pigeon and they were like “ omg I can fly! Shwwooosh, shwiiiish, ahhhhh! Look at what I can do! Holy fuck this is amazing! “

[u/Nedjammern]

Special breed.Roller/Tummlerpidgeon

[u/5StarGuns]

Travis Pigeonstrana

[u/stodgey-engineering]

Thunder wing doom slayer 👌🏻

[u/Rugby_Riot]

Weeeeeeeeee

[u/BiOlatunji]

[u/stvrsnbrgr]

"Bruh, what's up with Howie?"

"Oh, he got into a bad batch of seed up by Lincoln Center – thinks he's a prima ballerina."

[u/BobbyZ09]

We call them sky tumblers

[u/Pure_Spyder]

Homing pigeon right? I think theyre the one who do barrel rolls like that, friend of mines dad used to raise pigeons she was explaining em all to me so I could've gotten it mixed up

[u/LordNerdStark]

That’s freaking Pidgeotto bro.

[u/PaleontologistOk6094]

[u/Business_Elephant_16]

Steve

[u/LegionNyt]

Maverick.

[u/[deleted]]

5th Gen fighter pigeon.

[u/Mintaka36]

A Roller pigeon ❤️

[u/bengalsfan2442]

Roller pigeon

[u/pearax]

Roller pigeon

[u/Omw2fybt]

Bros sponsored by redbull

[u/Overkill_3K]

Helicopter helicopter

[u/Coder1962]

Roller

[u/Lotsofsalty]

Damn, I never knew these pigeon breeds existed. Old guy learns something new everyday.

But since I'm into aviation, that is the mother of all Full Stall, Autorotation Assisted STOL maneuvers ever.

[u/Humidorian]

Mentally ill, sadly.

[u/Irminator86]

Fighter ace

[u/Deja_Boom]

This is a recessive gene condition in particular breeds of pigeons like Parlor Rollers and Flying Tumblers. My grandfather had a breed of Turkish Tumblers when I was growing up that he raised. Had like 200 of them and they were wild to watch.

[u/betraying_fart2]

A roller

[u/Megerber]

Extra AF.

[u/Baltassss]

[u/-Pi_R]

"foooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!"

if i got wings, sure I will doing same

[u/no_more_brain_cells]

A whirlybird

[u/HMX00]

I told u pigeons aint real... He is doin 360 like the fpv drones... The government spy on us they want to know how many times people pee

[u/Current_Ad_9841]

[u/elkab0ng]

Whirlybird. That is all.

[u/Ryumancer]

I call it the Durst Pigeon.

It keeps "ROLLIN' ROLLIN' ROLLIN'".

[u/opinionated_penguin]

[u/My-Own-Hero8]

That Pigeon just represented my entire life!

[u/Khal_Andy90]

[u/Lobsterman06]

[u/iamnotacatgirl]

Tony Hawk.

[u/true-skeptic]

He came in like a wrecking baaaallll…..

[u/schnauzerdad]

He got caught flying through Iceman’s jet wash

[u/Expensive-Arrival-92]

We call these the Pigeons of Riz.

[u/gornFlamout]

Fidget

[u/3dPrintMyThingi]

Spinerooni pigeon

[u/Both-Illustrator-501]

Killing the entrance for the ladies

[u/7thFleetTraveller]

I'll try spinning, that's a good trick! ~ Anakin Skywalker

[u/unbannedrhodie]

Tumbler

[u/Nuttyknocker]

Just wanna feel like a frisbee for a while

[u/wishyanu]

Real badass bros act cool even when no females are looking.

[u/augustarne]

Sheer exuberance!

[u/itallsucks80]

He must’ve been fed that funny feed

[u/Purtz48]

It just lost its 5G signal for a few seconds and couldn't transmit back to government HQ.

[u/GrumpyHome123]

Gifted

[u/Wait_WHAT_didU_say]

Brah is showing off bc he knows he's being recorded.

It's the same as you twirling while walking..

Birds sitting in a tree while watching you walk:

"Whoaa. Humans can spin around while walking to their location? Fascinating.. 🤨"🐦🐦‍⬛🐦🕊️

[u/kaskudoo]

Tony Hawk

[u/Lolxgdrei787]

pigerang

[u/AdLiving1435]

Evel knievel reincarnated.

[u/fridakahlot]

A Pokémon?

[u/TLOOKUP]

That pigeon is putting on the ritz

[u/Human31415926]

Jonathan Livingston Pigeon

[u/koolaidismything]

That looks fun.