[HN Gopher] Ottoman-Era Bird Palaces
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       Ottoman-Era Bird Palaces
        
       Author : keiferski
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2023-11-10 20:08 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | cfq wrote:
       | If you're interested in this, you should definitely check out the
       | documentary Birdmen of Istanbul[1]. Turn on captions for English
       | subtitles. It tells the story of the residents of bird cafes in
       | Istanbul and the very old tradition of goldfinch, greenfinch and
       | siskin training for singing.
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       | They're completely obsessed with birds, dedicating their whole
       | lives to finding and training them. They have special vocabulary
       | for classifying different bird songs. It's known to be a dying
       | tradition as well but this documentary might have rekindled the
       | interest.
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       | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-M5JVR1JlM
        
       | doctorhandshake wrote:
       | This history plays a minor part in the plot of The Mountain in
       | the Sea, which is a book about octopuses more so than the birds
       | of Turkey
        
       | morninglight wrote:
       | The Persians also built elaborate structures for birds.
       | 
       | Bird dropping might make a mess of elegant architecture, but the
       | bird towers in Iran served to collect the valuable fertilizer
       | they left behind. Very clever.
       | 
       | https://itto.org/iran/attraction/dovecotes-pigeon-tower-isfa...
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       | https://themindcircle.com/mardavij-pigeon-tower/
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       | https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/450802/Pigeon-towers-signif...
       | 
       | .
        
         | skyfaller wrote:
         | Low-tech Magazine covered pigeon towers, as previously
         | mentioned on HN:
         | 
         | https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/10/pigeon-towers-a-lo...
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         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31885525
        
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