#Hook-Billed Kite

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A new variant has been added!

Hook-billed Kite (Chondrohierax uncinatus) © Cristian Antonio Calderón López

It hatches from broad, brown, central, distinctive, heavy, long, overall, small, southern, tropical, white, and yellow eggs.

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[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Hook-billed Kite

Photo: Ad Konings

"A recent arrival north of the border, this sluggish tropical hawk was first found in southern Texas in 1964, and has been a regular resident there since 1975. May be seen sailing over the trees or sometimes soaring high, but spends much of its time down within the canopy of the woods, where it searches for its staple food of tree snails. Usually in pairs or family groups in Texas, but has been seen in flocks in South America."

- Audubon Field Guide

[rulers-of-the-sky]

Hook-billed Kite

[nejishadow]

Pierce tries to convince Silk that Extreme Gear is really cool, but he is not convinced.

She let him borrow some gloves and goggles but he just might sneak out when she isn't looking

Base by GaboRabo

Mostly did this to force myself to draw something because there was a 26 day gap between the Haze art and this. I drew nothing in the inbetween.

(Since Silk was designed before Clutch came out to give us a standard for opossums, I updated his ears and muzzle a smidge here to fit in line with that better. If anyone questions why his ears aren't perfectly in line, he's not 100% opossum, begone with ye)

[autistrix]

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4342702] Hook-Billed Kite || Chondrohierax unciatus Observed in Clombia

[rjzimmerman]

Scientists Made a List of Lost Birds and Now They Want Us to Find Them. (New York Times)

Clockwise from top left: Santa Marta sabrewing; Golden-fronted bowerbird; Reichenow’s firefinch; Hook-billed kite; Edwards’s pheasant; Bronze parotia.Credit...Carole Turek; Tim Laman; Simon Colenutt; Karine Aigner; Ernie James; Tim Laman/Nature Picture Library, via Minden Pictures

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

In 2022, an ornithologist high in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains of northern Colombia spotted the shimmering emerald green and cobalt blue feathers of the Santa Marta sabrewing. A large hummingbird, it had only been documented twice since 1879. As the bird sat on a branch the ornithologist, Yurgen Vega, captured images.

Once lost to science, it now was found.

The bird was on the American Bird Conservancy’s 10 most wanted list, which sits atop a longer register of “lost birds,” which are formally defined as not having been documented by photographic, audio or genetic evidence in at least a decade.

A major goal of the list is to persuade bird watchers and others to look for these birds as they go out into the field, and to bring back evidence the birds have not gone extinct.

People have searched for lost birds for decades. But the process was formalized in 2020 by the conservancy, in partnership with two other groups, Re:wild and BirdLife International, as the Search for Lost Birds project.

Researchers from the groups published a paper in June with a definitive list of birds that need finding. They scoured tens of millions of photos, videos and audio recordings in birding databases such as iNaturalist and xeno-canto. The study concluded that there are 144 species of bird lost to the scientific world but that may still exist.

[tanoieyt]

Inspo:

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Sources (I did some research for this.):

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Also, I want to say that some of these entries might be biased! Also maybe spoilers for Project Nexus?? AND I HAVE HORRIBLE MEMORY SO I MIGHT OF FORGOTTEN SOME STUFF WHICH MIGHT OF MADE ME USED MISINFORMATION FOR THIS!

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Hank = Bataleur eagle

I don’t know why I wanted Hank to have a bird of prey.. Apparently this site said that bataleur eagles are very agile and they do silly aerial stuff in the sky.

I always see Hank flip and dip all the time so this is perfect.

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Sanford = Everglade Snail Kite

Gives the vibe. Also in my bird book (Birds of the World), it states, "It flies low over the water with slow wingbeats, swooping to catch snails with its talons. (Wright)" It kind of reminds me of how San just swoops grunts in with his hook. Also this is from the MadCom wiki, "The battle hook is a meat hook attached to a wire to be used as a weapon. It is the main weapon of Sanford, who uses it as both a melee and a ranged weapon, as a stabbing tool or to pull enemies closer.”

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Deimos = Great cormorant

In my bird book it states, "Cormorants are clumsy on land... (Wright)" this relates to the fact that Deimos fell off that platform in CHASE.fla in 1:04.

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Doc (2BDamned) = Red-billed oxpecker

Oxpeckers help other animals, and I’m pretty sure that Doc resurrected Deimos & Hank back to life. BOOM! MIND BLOWN! HAAHAHSHSJSI

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Jebus (Jebediah Christoff) = Whooping crane

Soo in my book, The World of Birds by Michael Wright (go check it out it’s good, I’m not advertising.) It said something about how whooping cranes in some Asian countries symbolizes life, and you know, Jebus is like Jesus but in MadCom??? I’m trying to make sense of this, I sound very bad at this.

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Tricky = Hoatzin

Its the little mohawk?!? Ok?

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Sheriff = African Pygmy kingfisher

Did not specify which kingfishers bateluer eagles eat so, I’m guessing it eats African Pygmy kingfishers since they live in the savannas and woodlands like the Bataleur eagle. Also, I just assigned Hank as a bataleur eagle. And Hank killed Sheriff.

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Auditor = Palm cockatoo

For me it looks like the Auditor but “bird-ified.” From the little mohawk looking like the little things on the Auditor’s head to the red stripe under the bird’s eye kind of resembling the Auditor’s red eyes, it just makes sense I guess.

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MAG AGENT : TORTURE = Secretary bird

Bit of a headcanon for this one (actually this is probably a hc…) but I feel like TORTURE would stomp on his victims like how the secretary birds stomp on their prey.

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Phobos = Harpy eagle

Harpy eagles are “powerful” creatures according to the WWF. And also in the MadCom wiki, it says that “He shows extreme power..” So yeah... Connect the dots I guess..? I hope I make sense.

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Crackpot = Noisy friarbird

“It is an aggressive bird whose loud rancorous calls...” Yeah this reminds me of Crackpot. Also, the birds feed with each other in “squabbling groups. (Wright)” And that detail reminds me of the fanatics.

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Church = Victoria crowned pigeon

Blue and has some sort of mowhak going on.

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Jorge = False sunbird-asity

Beak represents gas mask I guess? I don’t know I had a hard time with this one.

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Skittles = Rainbow lorikeet

Skittles is very colorful. Like this silly bird.

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Gabriel Barsch (idk just wanted to add him.) = American golden finch

Barsch’s persona has a simplistic but, nice design. Perching birds are pretty simple, but nice too. I also did a yellow perching bird from Nevada. (I also let my friends choose between the Bullocks oriole or the finch. They chose the finch for Gabriel.)

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hope you liked it! :D

- grim elloe

[proton-wobbler]

Very interesting paper. I feel like this should be studied in non-raptorial birds before we whole-sale say "bill shape and ecology dont correlate", or that the stance should at least be more nuanced than that. The fact that there are other contraints on bill size/shape than just feeding ecology doesnt negate the fact that hooked bills are shared by predatory birds across the spectrum of bird families.

A good point the paper brought up was the fact a fair number of raptors are generalists. I think that this could also be a factor in why more niche shapes havent emerged, as they did in Snail Kite and Hook-billed Kite.

Visual Comparison Of Bird Beaks And Their Uses

[aquilathefighter]

6 & 8 for the ask game? :)

6. Favorite band:

The Mountain Goats!!!!!! I am So Normal about them :):):)

8. Top 5 (insert subject):

You didn't put a subject so I am gonna do Top 5 birds I want to see this year when I visit the Rio Grande Valley later this year hehe

Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas)

Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris)

Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus obscurus)

Red-lored Parrot (Amazona autumnalis)

Hook-billed Kite (Chondrohierax uncinatus)

ask game here!

[violetsandshrikes]

Hook-billed Kite by christoph_moning

[rulers-of-the-sky]

Hook-billed kite

[saladban]

"One of the world’s rarest and most threatened raptors. Once found throughout much of Cuba, but now persists only in remote, forested areas in the eastern reaches of the island. Bright yellow hook-shaped bill is its best ID feature. Male is mostly gray with grayish brown barring un underparts and two white tail bands. Female has a gray head, dark brown back, chestnut barring on underparts, and two tan tail bands. In flight, note the broad, blunt wings that are pinched in at the base. Sightings of this species should be carefully documented. Formerly considered a subspecies of the widespread Hook-billed Kite."

-eBird

Conservation Status: CR

[2854/11080] Cuban kite - Chondrohierax wilsonii

Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae

Image credit: Nils Navarro

[nejishadow]

One down, so many to go...

Started making Sonic Channel styled renders to make banners for my characters on Toyhouse, since I found a code that mimics the official site theme!

The BG was directly replicated from Sonic's channel banner, though it's not 100% cause I can only do so much with firealpaca. Had to really fight some pngs to get that halftone pattern to look even half close to what it actually does.

Anyways! This is Pierce! An adopt I ended up keeping. She's a hook-billed kite, but I couldn't for the life of me find that in Japanese so just pasted Hawk from Jet's page ahduuhghudf. The one site I found them mentioned on had every other bird's name but not the kites ahdhfhgjg I cannot speak Japanese whatsoever and had to do educated guesses plus pasting words from actual Sonic Channel bios so. Hopefully it doesn't look completely stupid

I only have the info that she's got a one-sided beef with the Rogues cause a lot of people assume she's a cheater just because she's a bird who races Extreme Gear

[autistrix]

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/64907014]

Hook-Billed Kite || Chondrohierax unciatus

Observed in Colombia

Least Concern in location of observation

[birdwatcher-sketches]

Hook-billed Kite (Chondrohierax uncinatus)

© Michel Gosselin (MCN)

[katenepveu]

Description

38-40" (97-102 cm). W. 7'6 (2.3 m). Very large, with long, narrow, angular wings; long tail; long hooked bill. Adult male all black with red throat pouch, sometimes inflated in display; female has white chest, juvenile has white head. Nothing else is really similar (Swallow-tailed Kite is much smaller, has blue-gray back).

(my emphasis)

This may be silly, but I just saw a picture of a Frigatebird. I thought you made up the bird. I did not know there was a irl bird that was used for the Seven Throated Warbler. It's not even a warbler. I don't even know if it's anyway related to a warbler. Much to big I believe. I am in shock.

Did you know it was an ocean bird? I just found that out. Frigatebirds aren't native to London either, but warblers sure are. You probably knew this already, but I needed to share this new thing I learnt. Anyway, have a good day, I hope you understand you've rocked my world a little bit.

Reality is ripe with wild things that we pilfer constantly. Glad you enjoyed this discovery!