#Netherlands Parrot

[henrychikin]

These two, scheming, followed by feigned innocence. "Nothing to see here, ma'am."

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Pieter de Ring (Dutch, 1615 - 1660) Still Life with Parrot, ca. 1645-60 The Wallace Collection

[amir2000photography]

The rose-ringed #parakeet also known as the #ringneck #parrot #roseringedparakeet #birds in #Nederland #nature #photo #photography #fotograaf #photography #canon #eos5dmark4 I love the #Netherlands #dutch life📷

[pets-rehoming-adoption]

Beautiful Macaw/Cockatoo/African Grey parrots available for rehoming..

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[homyparots10]

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[heracliteanfire]

A Woman Feeding a Parrot, with a Page. Caspar Netscher, 1666.

The drawing is from the British Museum, the painting is in the (US) National Gallery of Art.

[annina-dietzenbacher-photography]

Annina Dietzenbacher - April 2023

[riverdusk]

[soy-soi-si]

Beastmen au - specific species inspired by @a-twistedheartslonging :)

Heartslabyul

Riddle Rosehearts : Netherland Dwarf Rabbit

Trey Clover : Shire Daft Horse

Cater Diamond : Sun Conure Parrot

Ace Trappola : Norwegian Forest cat

Deuce Spade : tibetan mastiff

Savanaclaw

Leona Kingscholar : Cape lion

Ruggie Bucchi : Spotted hyena

Jack Howl : Dire wolf mixed polar wolf/African Gray wolf

Octavinelle

Azul Ashengrotto : Giant Pacific octopus (Size) mixed Caribbean Reef Octopus. (Color)

Jade Leech : Channomuraena vittata (Chinese moray)

Or Giant moray mixed ribbon.

Floyd Leech : Channomuraena vittata (Chinese moray)

Or Giant moray mixed ribbon

Scarabia

Kalim Al-asim : Bengal Tiger

Jamil Viper : Coral snake (Color)

Mixed Reticulated python (Size) /Black mamba (Venom)

Pomefiore

Vil Schoenheit : Trumpeter swan

Rook Hunt : Braque Francais

Epel Felmier : Honey badger

Ighnyhide

Idia Shroud : Burrowing spider mixed Gooty Sapphire Ornamental

Ortho Shroud : Spotted Frog/Robot

Diasomnia

Malleus Draconia : Aether Dragon/ Darkness dragon Mixed Storm/lightning dragon. (Komodo dragon esc)

Lillia Vanrouge : Vampire bat

Mixed With Old World fruit bat

Silver Vanrouge : Sloth bear

Sebek Zigvolt : Sebecosuchia Crocodilian Mixed Human

[justaslime]

he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind.

I never actually thought about it before, but this is actually a very important reason why he works. Not only does it help him jump to the frankly ridiculous conclusion that a vampire is afoot - which is especially crazy considering he’s at that point never seen one - but I imagine it would also be necessary to actually pull him all the way from the Netherlands.

Sure, he feels he owes Jack a life debt, but I could still imagine many others just sending notes or ideas for diagnoses rather than coming and investigating it themselves. He needs to accept - before he’s even met Lucy - that this case might indeed be dire enough that his immediate help is required.

Also for later, I don’t know if everyone would have been as liberal in the blood donations as he would need to be for Lucy to survive as long as she did.

(sidenote: considering the Corn and Immortal Parrots we hear about later, this quote makes me wonder what kind of buckwild insane rants Jack has already listened to in his university time, forcing him to come to terms with the fact that Van Helsing is probably the single most open-minded person he’s ever met)

[heaveninawildflower]

Oval brush with handle of earthenware; tin-glazed, painted on a gold ground with a design of a parrot amongst leaves and berries (Netherlands, circa 1725-1750).

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

[henrychikin]

Happy Easter! Bram is such a ham ❤️ 🐇 Henry was scared of the eggs, stuffed toy, bucket, the ears - wanted nothing to do with any of it - and instead wanted to remind folks that, with a mirror, he can kiss himself. 😆🦜❤️We hope you all get to have treats and good laughs this weekend! 🍫

[archerdepartures116]

Svsss pet cafe au

These are the animals the peak lords and 3 demons are gonna be in this au

The decided ones are:

Luo Binghe- wolf

Liu Qingge- Bunny ( not sure what breed but im thinking Netherland Dwarf)

Shen Jiu (SQQ) - white cat

Mobie-jun- Cat (Maine Coon)

Qi Qingqi- Bird (Cockatiel)

Mu Qingfang- Chinchilla

The ones i haven't decided on are:

Sha Hualing- Bird (probably a Parrot) or maybe a ferret

Yue Qingyuan and Wei Qingwei

should i make Liu Mingyuan a human or a bunny like her brother?

Suggestions are open btw

Also if Liu Mingyuan was a bunny and Sha Hualing a bird i think it would be funny if Qi Qingqi likes to perch on Liu Qingges head and in turn Sha Hualing perches on Mingyuans

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

March 29, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

MAR 30, 2024

On Wednesday the nonprofit, nonpartisan Institute for the Study of War published a long essay explaining that Russia’s only strategy for success in Ukraine is to win the disinformation war in which it is engaged. While the piece by Nataliya Bugayova and Frederick W. Kagan, with Katryna Stepanenko, focused on Russia’s war against Ukraine, the point it makes about Russia’s information operation against Western countries applies more widely.

The authors note that the countries allied behind Ukraine dwarf Russia, with relative gross domestic products of $63 trillion and $1.9 trillion, respectively, while those countries allied with Russia are not mobilizing to help Russian president Vladimir Putin. Russia cannot defeat Ukraine or the West, they write, if the West mobilizes its resources.

This means that the strategy that matters most for the Kremlin is not the military strategy, but rather the spread of disinformation that causes the West to back away and allow Russia to win. That disinformation operation echoes the Russian practice of getting a population to believe in a false reality so that voters will cast their ballots for the party of oligarchs. In this case, in addition to seeding the idea that Ukraine cannot win and that the Russian invasion was justified, the Kremlin is exploiting divisions already roiling U.S. politics. 

It is, for example, playing on the American opposition to sending our troops to fight “forever” wars, a dislike ingrained in the population since the Vietnam War. But the U.S. is not fighting in Ukraine. Ukrainians are asking only for money and matériel, and their war is not a proxy war—they are fighting for their own reasons—although their victory could well prevent U.S. engagement elsewhere in the future. The Kremlin is also playing on the idea that aid to Ukraine is too expensive as the U.S. faces large budget deficits, but the U.S. contribution to Ukraine’s war effort in 2023 was less than 0.5% of the defense budget. 

Russian propaganda is also changing key Western concepts of war, suggesting, for example, that Ukrainian surrender will bring peace when, in fact, the end of fighting will simply take away Ukrainians’ ability to protect themselves against Russian violence. The authors note that Russia is using Americans’ regard for peace, life, American interests, freedom of debate, and responsible foreign relations against the U.S.

The authors’ argument parallels that of political observers in the U.S. and elsewhere: Russian actors have amplified the power of a relatively small, aggressive country by leveraging disinformation. 

The European Union will hold parliamentary elections in June, and on Wednesday the Czech government sanctioned a news site called Voice of Europe, saying it was part of a pro-Russian propaganda operation. It also sanctioned the man running the site, Artyom Marchevsky, as well as Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch, saying Medvedchuk was running a “Russian influence operation” through Voice of Europe.

The far right has been rising in Europe, and Nicholas Vinocur, Pieter Haeck, and Eddy Wax of Politico noted that “Voice of Europe’s YouTube page throws up a parade of EU lawmakers, many of them belonging to far-right, Euroskeptic parties, who line up to bash the Green Deal, predict the Union’s imminent collapse, or attack Ukraine.”

Belgian security services were in on the investigation, and on Thursday, Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo added that Russian operatives had paid European Union lawmakers to parrot Russian propaganda. Intelligence sources told Czech media that Voice of Europe paid politicians from Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Poland to influence the upcoming E.U. elections. Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper said the money was paid in cash or cryptocurrency. 

Czech prime minister Petr Fiala wrote on social media: “We have uncovered a pro-Russian network that was developing an operation to spread Russian influence and undermine security across Europe.” "This shows how great the risk of foreign influence is," Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte told journalists. "It's a threat to our democracy, to our free elections, to our freedom of speech, to everything."

There are reasons to think the same disinformation process is underway in the United States. Not only do MAGA Republicans, including House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), parrot Russian talking points about Ukraine, but Russian disinformation has also been a key part of the House Republicans’ attempt to impeach President Joe Biden. 

Republicans spent months touting Alexander Smirnov’s allegation that Biden had accepted foreign bribes, with Representative James Comer (R-KY) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) calling his evidence “verifiable” and “valuable.” In February the Department of Justice indicted Smirnov for creating a false record, days before revealing that he was in close contact with “Russian intelligence agencies” and was “actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections.”  

On March 19, former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas testified about the investigation into Biden’s alleged corruption before the House Oversight Committee at the request of the Democrats. Parnas was part of the attempt to create dirt on Biden before the 2020 election, and he explained how the process worked.  

“The only information ever pushed about the Bidens and Ukraine has come from Russia and Russian agents,” Parnas said, and was part of “a much larger plan for Russia to crush Ukraine by infiltrating the United States.” Politicians and right-wing media figures, including then-representative Devin Nunes (R-CA), Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), The Hill reporter John Solomon, Fox News Channel personality Sean Hannity, and other FNC hosts, knew the narrative was false, Parnas said, even as they echoed it. He suggested that they were permitting “Russia to use our government for malicious purposes, and to reward selfish people with ill-gotten gains.” 

The attempt to create a false reality—whether by foreign operatives or homegrown ones—seems increasingly obvious in perceptions of the 2024 election. There has been much chatter, for example, about polls showing Trump ahead of Biden. But the 2022 polls were badly skewed rightward by partisan actors, and Democrat Marilyn Lands’s overwhelming victory over her Republican opponent in an Alabama House election this week suggests those errors have not yet been fully addressed.

Real measures of political enthusiasm appear to favor Biden and the Democrats. On Wednesday, Molly Cook Escobar, Albert Sun, and Shane Goldmacher of the New York Times reported that since leaving office, Trump has spent more than $100 million on legal fees alone. He is badly in need of money, and his reordering of the funding priorities of the Republican National Committee to put himself first means that the party is badly in need of money, too.

Donors’ awareness that their cash will go to Trump before funding other Republican candidates might well slow fundraising. Certainly, small-donor contributions to Trump have dropped off significantly: Brian Schwartz of CNBC reported last week that “[i]n 2023, Trump’s reelection campaign raised 62.5% less money from small-dollar donors than it did in 2019, the year before the last presidential election.”  

Billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein have recently said they will back Trump, and Alexandra Ulmer of Reuters reported on Tuesday that other billionaires had pooled the money to back Trump’s then–$454 million appeal bond before an appeals court reduced it. But Ulmer also noted that there might be a limit to such gifts, as they “could draw scrutiny from election regulators or federal prosecutors if the benefactors were to give Trump amounts exceeding campaign contribution limits. While the payment would not be a direct donation to Trump's campaign, federal laws broadly define political contributions as ‘anything of value’ provided to a campaign.”

Meanwhile, the fundraising of Biden and the Democrats is breaking records. Last night, in New York City, former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama joined Biden onstage with television personality Stephen Colbert, along with event host Mindy Kaling and musical guests Queen Latifah, Lizzo, and Ben Platt. The 5,000-person event raised an eye-popping amount—more than $25 million—and the campaign noted that, unlike donations to Trump, every dollar raised would go to the campaign.

In his remarks, Biden said that the grassroots nature of the Democrats’ support showed in the number of people who have contributed so far to his campaign: 1.5 million in all, including 550,000 “brand-new contributors in the last couple of weeks.” Ninety-seven percent of the donations have been less than $200. 

Tonight, Adrienne Watson, the spokesperson for the National Security Council, the president’s primary forum for national security and foreign policy, pointed to Russia’s devastating recent attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid and called again for Speaker Johnson to bring up the bipartisan national security supplemental bill providing aid to Ukraine that the Senate passed in February. She warned: “Ukraine’s need is urgent, and we cannot afford any further delays.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[ducksbyday]

Hello Tumblr people

My name is Day, I am 21 years old and a full time ecology student. I've been studying ecology/biology for about 9 years, and yet I hear stories on the regular that leave me absolutely baffled.

I want so share some of my favourites with you, enjoy :) (will probably be updated over the course of time)

Parrots can be taught how to videocall, and actively enjoy calling with other parrots (Kleinberger et. al, 2024)

Some species of (wild) eel only procreate in/close to the bremuda triangle (Nolte, 2020; Browne, 2021)

(google on own discression) Snail love arrows. It's fucking WILD.

Female common bluetails (damselfly) have evolved to look physically exactly like male common blue tails so they are left alone during mating season (Kuta, 2023)

People feeding their christmas tree to goats because it's good for their health (in moderation!) (Laufenberg, 2024)

CHIMPANSEES SLEEP IN NESTS (Wikipedia, n.d.a) As someone who knows nothing about primates, this was an eye opener to me

Talking about monkeys, This video (I taught an ape how to play minecraft)

(CW// animal neglect) "Cloth mothers" (and the maternal-separation tests in general) (Wikipedia, n.d.b)

Researchers continuously trying to bring back extinct animals (such as heck cattle)

The entirety of Flevoland, Netherlands. They really just- did that.

Het Diemerpark, Amsterdam, NL. A park build on thousands of kilo's chemical waste and trash. They just put a big box over it and moved on like it was nothing (Gemeente Amsterdam, n.d.; AGV, n.d).

Why are there so many ways to photosynthensise???

The mirror test, and the single elephant that passed the test (Wikipedia, n.d.c.)

(I wish I had a better source, but for now this will do TvT. It's something my teacher shared in a lecture). Dutch zoo houses rhino's and cows in same area. Calf annoys rhino. Rhino yeets calf into the air, calf breaks his leg, heals, does it again, gets yeeted again, breaks leg again (Damen, n.d.).

Some places place green-light lanterns in the street because green = good for the invironment. This is absolute bullshit. Green is one of the worst colors, and was originally introduced to chase away geese (Spoelstra, 2017).

Currently don't have a source, it was shared during a reading of a ecologist. There's a population of wolves that live soley of fish and stranded carcasses. Wolves have cultures, and you can sometimes tell which wolf belongs to which family based on their diet.

(THANKS TO USER TIGOTEUS!!) Koi (Cyprinus carpio) can be taught recognise and tell the difference between music genres (Chase, 2001). THIS IS SO COOL I DID NOT KNOW THIS. Also shout out to fish Pepi, he tried his best.

Now I shall continue writing the actual essay that I need to finish by tomorrow LMAO <3

[artemlegere-art]

Musical Group on a Balcony

Artist: Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1590 - 1656)

Genre: Genre Art

Date: 1622

Medium: Oil on Panel

Collection: Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA

Smiling, singing figures gather around a balcony to play musical instruments, inviting the viewers below to join in the fun. The revelers' facial expressions and bright colorful clothes heighten the festive, carefree mood. A parrot and a dog, gazing down from their perches, round out the merry group. Possibly part of an allegory of Harmony, the painting may have originally been slightly wider and twice as long, containing a complete balustrade and more figures. The head of the man at the top is a modern addition.

Gerrit van Honthorst painted this illusionistic ceiling, the earliest of its type made in the Netherlands in 1622, two years after his return from Italy, where he saw similar painted ceilings. Careful calculation of perspective allows the figures to burst plausibly through the flat plane of the painted panel.