#I LOVE THESE BIRDS

[crabussy]

two gorgeous kererū I saw today within arms reach

[malbecmusings]

Sup dude!

via Kristian Gillies

[mintaikk]

It's spring so those fuckin horny-ass birds are gonna start screaming at 5 in the morning

[writebackatya]

It is literally impossible for me to come up with a DuckTales story that doesn’t use any of these characters:

I’ve now accepted that fact and I hope you can too

[large-baguette-112]

Receive

My favorite

SECRETARY BIRD!!!!

[unhonestlymirror]

I will never stop being amazed by how much Lithuanians like storks. They seem to pray to them as to sacred birds: when you drive along the highway, for every 20 meters you will see a storks' nest. I sadly have no pretty pictures, but believe me, it looks like Heaven on Earth.

[dinosaurwithablog]

I love these birds and their FEET!!! 😁😍

[nipuni]

Phoenix

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon soon 😊

[kuronekoartsblog]

I offer you: Tim Drake being absolutely demolished in a way or another for being good at videogames, both by his opponent and his own teammate

Recently this is the only thing capable of pumping some dopamine in my ADHD brain so this is what u get lol

More to come!

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[dinosaurwithablog]

That bird doesn't look happy, but I'm sure that's it's being treated kindly and banded to help the species. Look at that mouth!! Nightjars are gorgeous birds. Like the closely related frogmouth, they are one of my favorite birds!! They are beautiful to me 😍

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/112646473]

Eurasian Nightjar || Caprimulgus europaeus

Observed in Greece

Least Concern in location of observation

Bird banding is much more fun for the banders than for the birds lol

[heckyeahponyscans]

The H5N1 (bird flu) virus is going around, and cats are proving especially susceptible to it. A big cat sanctuary in Washington state had TWENTY of their big cats (cougars, tigers, etc) die of bird flu.

There have also been cases of indoor-only domestic cats getting sick or even dying of bird flu after contracting it from raw cat food. And of course coming into contact with birds also puts your cat at risk.

To keep your cat safe:

Keep them away from birds, preferably keeping them entirely inside. If they are indoor-outdoor then remove any bird feeders from your yard to make cat-bird contact less likely.

Do NOT feed them raw food of any sort, including freeze-dried raw food. Freezing will not kill the virus!

A lot of raw pet food companies are using PR speak to assure customers that their raw food is safe. Remember that at the end of the day their priority is to make money and stay in business. Unless they are testing every bird carcass for the virus their assurances are meaningless, and they certainly are not testing every bird because it would be too expensive.

Cooking kills most viruses and bacteria, including H5N1.

[great-and-small]

Just found out my facebook birding group is public because my cousin (a lawyer who is not into birds) casually said to me “saw you couldn’t identify a willet the other day… pretty embarrassing”

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[dinosaurwithablog]

One of my favorite birds ever!!! This mother and chick photo illustrates why I love these birds. Look at that mouth!! 😍 Look at those faces!! 😍As a dinosaur myself, I love birds who remind me of their dinosaur ancestry. They're beautiful birds, indeed!!!

Large Frogmouth (Batrachostomus auritus), mother with chick, family Podargidae, order Podargiformes, found in SE Asia

photograph by Jamil Mat Isa

[bigolialragu]

i like thinking that laios would go crazy on birdwatching after the [SPOILERS] curse