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i learned about a new bird today! a little round lad, the red-billed leiothrix 🪶

~3hr study

(reference photo by Marco Valentini)

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the pacific baza is a slender, medium-sized hawk found in australia, indonesia, papua new guinea, the solomon islands, and east timor. they are the only new guinean raptor with a crest. somewhat unusually for a hawk, this species is omnivorous, and feeds on fruits and vegetation in addition to lizards, birds, and other small prey. females are slightly heavier than males, with more brown coloration on their uppersides, sometimes with more dark barring on their secondary flight feathers. both sexes are primarily gray, brown, and white. this species is largely non-migratory.

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Ornate Hawk Eagle (Spizaetus ornatus), family Accipitridae, found throughout much of Central and South America

photograph by ppsittacus_photograph

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Superb Starling (Lamprotornis superbus), family Sturnidae, Kenya

photograph by kenyanbirder

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Wompoo Fruit-Dove (Megaloprepia magnifica), male, family Columbidae, Australia

Photograph by Leila Jeffreys

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Another shot of Tomato the Crow from today.

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hi everyone the aviary has until november 2024 to raise enough money to find a new location or else all the birds will be rehomed

for those of you who don’t know the aviary has been operating out of an old house for years. the house is officially falling apart and is no longer safe to house the birds. the city has completely given up on us. the deadline to find a new place is november 2024, and if we don’t raise enough money to find somewhere else, the aviary will be forced to dissolve and all of the birds will have to find new homes.

it’s not easy to find homes for 20 large parrots, many of which aren’t sociable and have health issues. there is a pair of bonded macaws that cannot be separated and can be aggressive, loud, and destructive - there are not many places for them to go. it is not going to be easy to find somewhere else to go (especially with the current real estate market in canada) but anything and everything helps. please consider donating if you can :)

https://www.hamiltonaviary.com/donate

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Another monster for the board game! A Snap Dragon! The company is wrapping up art for the project so this'll be the last piece for them for a while. I have some other art I might post from this, if I can summon the effort.

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Ultramarine Lorikeets (Vini ultramarina), family Psittaculidae, endemic to the Marquesas Islands (South Pacific)

ENDANGERED.

photograph by peterodekerken

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Pink-browed Rosefinch (Carpodacus rodochroa), male, family Fringillidae, India

photograph by Kamlesh Mirkale

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Splendid Fairywrens (Malurus splendens), male, family Maluridae, Australia

photograph by Mark Eatwell

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Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda), male, family Galbulidae, found in parts of Central and South America

Photograph by @teonglng

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Ross's Turaco (Tauraco rossae), family Musophagidae, Kilima Camp, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

photograph by takanagaphotogallery

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White-crested Turaco (Tauraco leucolophus), family Musophagidae, found in central and Eastern Africa

photograph by frankie.low33 

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Crystal Cavern.

C⭐️mmission for pisqcurio featuring their aquatic dragon, Belirae!

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Fully grown idiot

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flight

patreon poster for june