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Eyes of a hunter.
Least Bittern
nature goes and puts a beak on top of that bird’s head
um… @elodieunderglass I feel this bird breaks some fundamental bird clasification rules…
that’s the bittern! from the front!
they’re the one that goes from the Orbular
into the Longular
which makes sense from the Side-ular
but is weird from the Full Frontular.
“Kimiko Nishimoto learned how to use a camera for the first time at the age of 71 and even furthered her skills by taking courses on digital editing to manipulate her images. While she mostly focuses on still life and nature photography, she has a series of hilarious self-portraits involving random costumes and staged falls.” (x)
a serious inspiration
Later in life goals
it irritates me to no end when people say north american birds are dull in comparison to other countries’ birds
blue jay
american kestrel
painted bunting
yellow-throated vireo
cerulean warbler
baltimore oriole
american goldfinch
northern cardinal
You’re forgetting the red wing black bird and the great and snowy egret. Best birds of the marsh!
I love how they’re all looking into the camera like they’re modeling.
other beautiful featherbeasts include orb bird
stylish accessory bird
loud and delicious bird
bird that will kung fu your face while you are grilling in your backyard
overly dramatic fishwizard bird
demonic creepy noise duck
assorted sky-cats
screaming inflatable doofus bird
stump
not technically native but it poops on my lawn
toasted marshmallow friend
we’re getting a little off-topic from brightly-colored birds, so let’s give it up for:
the INDIGO BUNTING
the MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD
the REGULAR EASTERN BLUEBIRD
the BARN SWALLOW
and STELLAR’S JAY
this post has been brought to you by the color blue, thank you and goodnight
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this is the most surreal most 21st century sentence I’ve ever read
noo
how is angry birds collecting sexual orientation data? how do these birds know im gay
Bro they fuckin snitched on us
The birds work for the bourgeoisie
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@why-animals-do-the-thing what the heck?
This is priceless. Fur is a great nest-building material. Normally, birds get it from snags on branches or (maybe, I’m not sure) dead animals. I know some people who actually put out a bird-feeder full of hair for the birds after they brush out their dog, specifically so that it can be turned into nesting material.
This is a very brave birb who has learned where it comes from and just decided to go get some from the source, and a dog who is probably too asleep to care.
Can someone please tell me this was a pair that was trying to do the death spiral that mating birds of prey do, and somehow in the process they ended up stuck on a road sign.
Because if it is, this is definitely one of the funniest “Okay, maybe we WERE a little bit over our head when we started this…” moments.
I doubt it. One of these birds is a juvenile (the top) while the other is an adult (bottom). The juvenile would have no interest in mating.
Honestly when I see hawks doing stupid stuff 9/10 times its a harris hawk—this seriously just looks like one of those stupid hawks time. They are one of the only social raptors, so this leads to some funny things, like
Stacking
The harris hawk argument for stacking is “your back is less Pokey than a cactus so imma use it”
Not even falconers are safe…
They even hold hands
Please, what are you doing harris hawks, learn how to hawk
The ability to see Earth’s magnetic field, known as magnetoreception, relies on the presence of specifically the blue wavelength of light. The complex process involves “radical” intermediate molecules which are sensitive to Earth’s magnetic field. The Earth’s magnetic field, as it relates to the direction the bird is facing, could alter the intermediate radical molecules differently, giving the bird a sense for where it is facing in relation to the Earth’s magnetic field.
While the exact way birds visualize Earth’s magnetic field is part of further investigation, scientists believe the Cry4 protein acts as sort of a filter over the bird’s vision. This filter would allow birds to see a sort of compass of the Earth and direct their migratory flights accordingly.
Source: Forbes
this is a good hole and i would like to lurk in it
That’s Carlsbad caverns. Hope you like bats and birds.
i do, i would like to crouch amongst the bats and birds
Happy New Year everyone!
Sadly I had to spend it in bed because the sickness but it was rainy out there anyway.
At least I could watch my birds melting on room temperature.
tell your birds i love them
Running with the pheasants
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I know that all birds are dinosaurs, but some birds are better at looking like dinosaurs than others.
