#Antigone antigone

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The world’s tallest flying bird at around 1.7-meters (5.2-feet) tall, sarus cranes (Antigone antigone) live alongside people in parts of India, foraging in and around canals, irrigation ditches and cultivated fields.

Image © Bjorn Olesen.

[birdblues]

Sarus Crane

[herpsandbirds]

Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis) raising a ruckus, family Gruidae, order Gruiformes, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, USA

photograph by NPS/Patrick Myers

[two-bees-poetry]

this test of the mountain

[most-tragic-character-tournament]

MOST TRAGIC TOURNAMENT: FINAL ROUND! [ROUND 8]

ANTIGONE

VS

DR. HEINZ DOOFENSHMIRTZ

WINNER WILL BE DECLARED TUMBLR’S MOST TRAGIC CHARACTER!

[great-and-small]

One of the best things about winter in Florida is the influx of Sandhill cranes! There are resident Sandhill cranes in the state year round, but during the winter months the population of this species more than doubles due to snowbirding visitors from up north. They'll stay for a few months and then head back home in the spring.

Sandhill cranes can live to be over twenty years old in the wild; can you spot the youngest member of this group? 👀

[jewelleria]

the only person i'd run through an airport for is you.

antigone, sophocles / summer wars (2009) dir. mamoru hosoda / i’ll give you the sun, jandy nelson / elektra, sophocles / ruth madievsky / right now, gracie abrams / the archive of alternative endings, lindsey drager / the fall of the house of usher, steven berkoff / the replacement, brenna yovanoff / ? / fleabag (2016-2019) / practical magic, alice hoffman

[trashmarine]

revolutionary girl utena (shōjo kakumei utena, 1997) / antigone by jean anouilh

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Sandhill cranes / grulla gris (Antigone canadensis) at Whitewater Draw, Cochise County, Arizona.

[gacougnol]

Antigone Kourakou

[decepti-thots]

(apologies to my followers here for an off topic post, but i want this to show up in some tags (for once) and my personal account is... hidden from search, lol.)

i recently recovered my old hard drive from my dead laptop, including recovering my theatre bootlegs. one of which is something i've seen people asking about for the past couple of years (and had been trying to find again myself without luck): a BBC4 broadcast of the 2015 Barbican production of Anne Carson's translation of Antigone, directed by Ivo van Hove. it was broadcast twice and never released on DVD or permanent streaming. there used to be public links around, but all of them are dead as of right now that i could track down.

so i have uploaded it to archive.org now i have it again!

i had to convert the mkv to mp4, for reasons of 'my broadband is shit and uploads too slowly', but it's still good quality. anyway, i enjoy this production a lot. i want more people to watch it! i'm glad i could get it back and upload it somewhere.

[herpsandbirds]

Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis), THEY SREMMM!!!, family Gruidae, order Gruiformes, Fairbanks, Alaska

photograph by Lotze Art & Design

[florals-cardigan]

If you claim to be "theater kid" and complaining about musicals and plays are political, you're not a theater kid

[birdblues]

Sandhill Crane & Red-winged Blackbird

[most-tragic-character-tournament]

PROPAGANDA UNDER THE CUT: [SPOILERS AND POSSIBLE TRIGGERS AHEAD]

ANTIGONE:

LLOYD GARMADON:

[great-and-small]

Good news! Our favorite pair of Sandhill cranes have successfully hatched two colts again this year. They look to be just a few weeks old.

I’ve enjoyed watching these diligent parents raise babies over the past four years. Hoping to watch these two cute colts grow up strong like their siblings before them; with parents like these they’ve got a great head start.