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[–] Pohl 90 points 8 months ago (9 children)

The average lifespan for wild passerine birds is probably a lot longer than 3 yrs.

In general, birds live a weirdly long time. Banding studies show us song birds that have lived up to 15yrs or so. Assuming they make it to adulthood, a cardinal can probably expect to live 6-8 yrs but that is a wild guess since it’s almost impossible for us to really measure that.

Anyway, that’s enough zoology time, back to the memes!

[–] SanndyTheManndy 1 points 8 months ago

Their lifespan got carried over from when they were dinosaurs

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