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Vernal Fairy Shrimp (Eubranchipus vernalis), family Chirocephalidae, order Anostraca, NE US

note the egg sacs, full of eggs.

photographs by Twan Leenders

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Skipper has successfully befriended Greenie which has helped Greenie's health a lot.

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Phil Davies

"The Egret was in shadow and the background was in full sun"

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Grey-headed Fish Eagle (Icthyophaga ichthyaetus), EAT A TASTY FISH!!!, family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Singapore

photograph by Dan N Kev

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Green Heron (Butorides virescens) family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, FL, USA

photograph by David Eppley

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not a problem that's so fair! can you give me zonotrichia sparrows ? :0 (hopefully that's a less done one haha)

Oh yes, here are some gorgeous little sparrow friends for you!

Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis), family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes, Mindo, Ecuador

Photograph by Rafa Pardo

White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys), family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes, WY, USA

photograph by Wolfgang Wander

White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis), family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes, Quebec, Canada

photograph by Cephas

Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla), family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes, BC, Canada

photograph by Brendan Lally

Harris's Sparrow (Zonotrichia querula), family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes, MA, USA

photograph by Ian Davies

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can I have some guillemots! I had to count HEAPS of them for a citizen science project once, I’d love to know them better! When theyre not just various black and white blobs on a cliff face hahaha

I absolutely love Alcids! Here is a little collection of guillemots for you...

Black Guillemot or Tystie (Cepphus grylle), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Ytre Norskøya Island on the NE coast of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard archipelago, Norway

photograph by Ann Fulcher Photography

Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Seal Island NWR, ME, USA

photograph by Walker Golder

Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba) EAT A TASY FISH!!!, family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Alaska

photograph by Marion Owen (@marion_owen_photography)

Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba) EAT A TASY FISH!!!, family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

photograph by Shanthanu Bhardwaj 

Spectacled Guillemot (Cepphus carbo), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Yamsky Island, Sea of Okhotsk, Russia

photograph by Eliezg 

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Hi! Could I request a Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)? I saw one in real life for the first time recently and I was absolutely blown away by his beauty!! Which is not to downplay the understated beauty of the females, I adore brown banding on birds :) But it's not every day you see a huge golden animal!

Yes, absolutely gorgeous!

Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus), male, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, China

photograph by Khalid Sharif

Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus), male, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, China

photograph by 陳承光 (@joinus12345)

Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus), male, family Phasianidae, from the mountains of Western China (introduced elsewhere)

photograph by Jed Weingarten

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Yellow-collared Lovebirds (Agapornis personatus), DRINKY DRINK!!!, family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, Tanzania

photograph by Sandro Panzera

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Oregon Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis oreganus), family Passerellidae, order Passeiformes, northern CA, USA

photograph by Chris Hansen

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Secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius), family Sagitariidae, order Accipitriformes, Tanzania

Endangered.

photograph by Nature Photography Adventures

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what is your favorite fruit? the people wonder..

Here is a recent photo of me enjoying my favorite fruit...

Coconut Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus), EAT A TASTY MANGO!!!, family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, found in part of Indonesia, New Guinea and some other Indian and Pacific islands

photograph by Meng Kuang Han

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Loch Raven, Baltimore MD

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"This is a Blue Button or Porpita porpita.

Although it is superficially similar to a jellyfish, each apparent individual is actually a colony of hydrozoan polyps  They each performing specialised roles – stinging and preying, defending the colony from predators, and producing more of their kind. Porpita porpita are also hermaphrodites, that is, they have both male and female reproductive apparatus.Do you think it is beautiful?"

Beautiful find by @snorkeldownunder

Information from Wildlife Conservation Trust

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Ok I'll talk more about Raven Beak's suit.

You know how Samus' suit just up and explodes if you get her killed? At least in Mawkin powersuits, that's an intended feature for specific warrior classes.

If you were to kill Raven Beak in some way other than allowing a Metroid to juice him like a lemon, his suit would explode. That's a security feature: the Mawkin are very proud of their technology, and firmly believe that their secrets of warfare should never fall into the hands of Others: partly because they're so proud, but also for the good of the galaxy. They don't want their secrets being used by bad actors to wreak havoc.

Raven Beak is the Mawkin Warlord: as such, his suit is juiced up to the nth degree. If he were to fall in battle and his suit didn't explode, the Mawkin would be waist-high in the swamp. If, for example, the Space Pirates were to get ahold of his suit and reverse engineer it, the Mawkin would be held responsible for unleashing the means for the Pirates to create devastating weapons based on their designs.

Mawkin suits are highly optimized and possess combat capabilities and weapons that far exceed most other tribes. Raven Beak's suit has custom "firmware". His suit and the suits of a number of high echelon warriors and intelligence agents are designed to combust in a very particular way.

When the wearer's vitals fall below critical levels, the suit cannibalizes its own upgrades. The excess matter that accumulates as a result of this reaction is highly volatile, and the speed at which this all occurs helps to catalyze a fantastic explosion that ensures no technological footprint is left behind. No user data, no biometrics, no upgrades, no suit. Typically, the more upgrades you have, the grander the explosion is: that's more matter for the dying suit to push together like a play-doh ball made of dynamite.

Upon death, the Shrouded Talons' suits are designed to destroy not just the tech, but the body as well. If a unit is decommissioned, the intelligence wing of the tribe logically does not want the agent's identity to be discerned. Leave no trace and there's no trail to follow, as it were. There's a reason the Talons aren't common knowledge in intergalactic intelligence circles: they take cleaning up after themselves very seriously.