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the bird sanctuary I used to work for just posted this picture of a baby vulture who needs pants because he won’t stop messing with his leg splints 😭
I had a dream that an outtake from a Ted Cruz campaign commercial got leaked of him seeing a large turkey vulture in a forest and screaming “WHAT THE F*** IS THAT” and emitting a high pitched shriek while the vulture just casually walked closer to him. The whole thing became a giant meme.
i wish this was real
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
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
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
“What’s wrong?”
[three birds outside and one of the birds is laying down sadly] bird: “what’s wrong? want a kiss?” [bird proceeds to kiss sad bird with small kissing sound]
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.
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
Full video: Birds of the Yellow Sea, Cornell Lab / Gerrit Vyn
(red knot)
bird: *crawls inside of another bird*
the human watching: yeah, this is normal
