On the "I Thought I meant..." link. Would it be worth adding that the practice of clipping the wings of actual avian birds goes back a long time? It is done by cutting back or plucking flight pinions (feathers vital to flight) so that valuable caged/captive birds are restricted in how far they can fly, or are unable to fly at all. This was apparently also done in falconry to prevent hunting birds straying too far from their handler or getting thoughts of independence. Even today, the folk myth that if the ravens of the Tower of London take flight and desert the city, doom will befall Britain, is finessed by the raven population having had their wings clipped..... if there are no objections I'll add this bit?
Male, early sixties, Cranky old fart, at least two decades behind. So you have been warned. Functionally illiterate in several languages.
On the "I Thought I meant..." link. Would it be worth adding that the practice of clipping the wings of actual avian birds goes back a long time? It is done by cutting back or plucking flight pinions (feathers vital to flight) so that valuable caged/captive birds are restricted in how far they can fly, or are unable to fly at all. This was apparently also done in falconry to prevent hunting birds straying too far from their handler or getting thoughts of independence. Even today, the folk myth that if the ravens of the Tower of London take flight and desert the city, doom will befall Britain, is finessed by the raven population having had their wings clipped..... if there are no objections I'll add this bit?
Male, early sixties, Cranky old fart, at least two decades behind. So you have been warned. Functionally illiterate in several languages.