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Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.
Dad loves you and feeds you. But he is also dumb and feeds you a wonderfully done wagyu steak. You are 3 days old.
I almost forgot to mention: this woman came into the penguin enclosure with a KESTREL??? I said “oh my god is that an American Kestrel?” and she said “Yes! She was outside doing raptor education for the kids, but she doesn’t like to get rained on.”
#she was watching the penguins with what I will anthropomorphically project as skepticism
kestrel: i hate rained on!!
human: here is birds in water
kestrel: ……no…..
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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American Kestrel. (press play to hear it’s call) (via raptor_rehab_of_kentucky)
all predatory birds are squeaky toys
The bigger ones have a deeper call, but American Kestrels are itty bitty, and first cousins to squeaky toys, yes.
Yeah no red tails are fully capable of sounding like squeaky toys, and eagles have pitiful squeaky calls. The bigger ones are not exempt from squeaky toy classification.
I will consider myself enlightened!
There’s nothing quite like watching a big badass looking eagle go “meep”.
The exact opposite feeling of that is seeing a barn owl, looking at its soft looking pretty fluffy face, thinking it emits pleasant hoots like other owls, and then “SCREEEEEE” - the worst freakiest sound you could ever hear in the woods at night comes out.
And so I learned why they’re called “chouette effraie” in French.
(My experience with broody birds is chickens) Why does she do that? Is she having trouble keeping all the eggs under her? Or does she not pluck her breast to expose her skin to the eggs for more warmth?
Yep, birds of prey usually also pluck a brood patch! Shes doing it to rotate and reposition the eggs under her to keep them all warm.
Best quality: her mama wiggles
I am no kind of bird expert, but I think it’s mama AND papa wiggles? At 0:06 and 0:41 that is definitely a different bird.
Yes, the gray headed bird is the male!
“sorry i cant be homophobic anymore my son got a post with 100k notes on tumbler dot com that said if ppl reblogged it i’d stop hating gays”
