According to the Internet, it refers to the fact that birds eat in many small meals.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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The general folder was recently removed. Could its contents be placed in the RL folder?
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"General" examples don't belong anywhere, so no.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Should the RL examples also be nuked, then? They're very similar.
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Yep, and moved another example to a Music folder because it looked like it was integrated in the performance there.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
As the grandparent trope of this has been moved to Artistic License – Paleontology, maybe we should move this page to Artistic License – Ornithology?
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Feel free to offer that up in the Trope Repair Shop.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Aaand page moved
per TRS.
Sorry about the edit I made earlier in this page. It was an accident. I meant to go to Somewhere, a Mammalogist Is Crying.
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How in the nine blue hells is this a Subjective Trope?!?!?
I ju... I wh... But if... No. No, look. If the writers obviously do not understand how birds of a certain species even work, then they do not understand how birds of a certain species even work. There is nothing even remotely subjective about this. Is getting the dates wrong in a history test subjective? Hell no, and neither are zoological errors. What the f***, TV Tropes? Just, what the f***?
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It's not subjective, it's just not used because it was felt too close to complaining to use - any errors in a work are best put as Artistic License than anything else.
What's with all the stuff about chickens? Hardly any of the actual examples show other birds being mistaken for chickens.
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Penguins are practically chickens, and I hate to see chickens cry so much that I have to put them out of their misery!
(Ignoring the WTF-ness about the penguins.) There was talk of turning the chicken aspects into a separate trope, and I'm sure if I did that tomorrow nobody would notice or even give a crap. But that's missing a bigger issue...
I thought the term "eat like a bird" referred to the fact that birds peck through feces and other unsavory substances to find food.
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