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Linnet silked (hatched on Christmas)

Toffee smooth

Greenfinch silked micro

Jellybean smooth?

Nightingale

Maple Sugar

Blackbird, thought they were fully black when they were fresh but they just have interesting markings.

Feel free to ask questions as always

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Unmute !

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Having fun shooting the Stellar’s Jays. Silver Lake, Brighton, Utah

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Very Important Question(s). When you look at a peafowl’s body, how much of what you’re seeing is body and how much is feather floof? Are they very floofy? When you touch their bodies or handle them do your fingers sink in? I could google this but I’d like to hear about your birds’ floof quotient specifically if that’s okay!

They are mostly floof

I won't post images, but you can compare my birds to a butchered bird that's being prepped for cooking (just web search "cook a peacock" and you'll find featherless bipeds). There's a lot of fluff, but also a lot of bird.

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Trick or Treat! 🦇🕷️

You get the silver red breasted button quail hen!

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The 2 red breasted boys I held back to replace the wild type male I had. One (pic 1 & 3) is younger than the other by a good deal, so I'm curious to see if he'll color in more like the other as he grows up or if he'll keep the heavy patterning. RB males are supposed to basically look like WT but with more red on the chest/belly/sides. There's also some kind of modifier or something in the RB mutation (?? unclear if it expresses in other mutations or not) called "Darth Vader" that makes them even darker colors, and I know that's what the older boy (pic 2 & 4) probably is. So that could account for it, too.

I like the older boy better in terms of color, if the younger one never changes, but man, he's a loud little fucker. I don't know if I would be able to stand keeping him, if he's gonna scream as much as he does. His father wasn't nearly so noisy.

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trick-or-treat!

You get the world's most dramatic quail

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Trick or treat! Teal pumpkin please! 🦚💙

You get a nesting mama button quail!

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i always see people talking about crows and ravans but what of this silly guy, the great-tailed grackle. he traipses into our yard with his squawks and robotic-sounding squeaks and floofs up his vaguely iridescent plumaeg and then

for whatever reasons they enjoy emitting a squawk and looking up this is very important.

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A little Junco (and Nuthatch) parade from today. You can see a bit of the hot bark butter that I put on the tree during the day. The birds like it but the squirrels stay away from it - the heat irritates their noses (I always wear gloves when I put it on, too, it is powerful). The flurries reminded me of a snow globe, so I made it round 🙂

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Full Video: Riekko mukana hiihtoreissulla, Tolkuton Willow ptarmigan included in ski trip

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Some Beautiful Brandt Cormorants during breeding season. I love these blue patches they get! Their eyes are so magical. Free to use, just link back to this post when you do!

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I love watching him preen and zip his tail feathers together

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Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus), male, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, northern India

Photograph by Manjula Mathur