#Puffin Nesting

[wild-wow-facts]

Puffins: The Amazing Underwater Divers!

Did you know puffins can dive over 200 feet deep? Discover this and more about these fascinating sea birds!

Check out my other videos here: Animal Kingdom Animal Facts Animal Education

[jadafitch]

Matinicus Rock Light, Penobscot Bay, Matinicus, Maine. Hunting and eating puffins was common practice in Maine over 100 years ago. The first lighthouse keepers on the rock were also wardens, hired by The American Ornithologists Union. They were tasked with protecting The United State's last remaining pair of Atlantic puffins, as well as many other commonly hunted seabird species. Today, Matinicus Rock is owned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, and is cooperatively managed by the National Audubon Society and MCINWR. Thanks to their work and the work of Project Puffin, there are over 500 pairs of nesting puffins, plus 400 pairs of razorbills, 1,000 pairs of terns, about 700 pairs of laughing gulls, and more.

[milaisreading]

Puffin nests!!

[elliottnotyet]

Day 21 of Marchirp: Nest

I made a card game called Nest and so I came up with Marchirp to motivate me to finish illustrating all 14 birds lol.

[Image ID: various birds in front of, inside, and above a nest under the word NEST drawn to look like the letters are made of twigs. End ID]

I'll have the printable version up on my Etsy soon but I wanna do a kickstarter for an official version eventually.

I couldn't come up with a good pun for April, but you're gonna see my anthropomorphized lizards for the next game I'm illustrating: Lizard Duel🦎

[vox-anglosphere]

It's breeding season along the Atlantic coast - God bless them all

[principiumindividuationis777]

[mountalodiel]

i saw puffins today. i saw puffins today. i saw puffins today. i saw puffins today. i saw puffins today. i saw puffins today. i s

[0vinosparv]

Look at em go

everyone look at this

[dinosaurchurch]

My younger sister planned a puffin and whale watching tour with Gatheralls for my birthday last year. We didn't really see any whales but lots of sea birds, if anyone ever gets the chance to do this when you visit the small town of Bay Bulls - I'd highly recommend it. I had a lot of fun.

It was also super cool getting to see the coastline that Mickeleen's Path follows from the water. I loved seeing the sea caves.

August 11th 2024.

[herpsandbirds]

If we’re talking extinct birds, can I get an Auk?

Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, was found along the East Coast of the US, the North Atlantic, and around the coasts of Western Europe

EXTINCT (1852)

Also called Penguin or Garefowl.

A sea bird that fed on fish crustaceans.

Not related to what we now call penguins, but in the same family as puffins, guillemots, razorbills, dovekies, and auklets.

The penguins of the Southern Hemisphere were named after their resemblance to this bird.

The Great Auk grew up to 85 cm (33 inches) tall and weighed up to about 5 kg (11 lbs).

The species went extinct due to overhunting, mainly for their down. The numbers of Great Auk had dropped greatly as well during the "Little Ice Age", due to lower sea levels exposing nesting sites to predators.

illustrations: John Gerrard Keulemans, John Gould, Keulemans , John James Audubon

photograph by Mike Pennington

[sirrabbithat]

Been thinking about a COD!bird hybrid Au. But their all like really fancy birds- I'll definitely be turning this into a fanfic

I'll split this into two posts!

Soap is a new guinea cock of the rock. Mostly for the natural Mohawk. He's trans in this au so he has the bright blue eyes and naturally brown mowhawk and wings. He dyes everything he can orange.

Ghost is a snowy owl because ofc he is, but he doesn't have any of those black stripes on him they usually have. And if he dose have them their barely noticable. Both of them are large and strong hunters and usually work alone unless with a mate (soap) and both seem to have a terminal case of RBF.

Price is a European bee eater. Their very Social little guys and are extremely fast. The colors aren't exactly tactical but I image he uses temp feather dye to darken his wings and feathers before going on an Op. European bee eaters are also extremely focused hunters, similar to Price.

Gaz is a Costas hummingbird because I think their adorable. But similar to the bee eater price is based off of their extremely fast and nimble, the pop of purple feathers mixed into military green and white wings is also something I'm obsessed with. Plus with his wings moving as fast as hummingbird wings do he shouldn't fall out of any (more) helicopters anytime soon

Roach would be a puffin. Their both weird little guys who like to get into strange shaped places. Ie: a hole in the wall. He'd probably pick away at some drywall and make a nest next to a gas line.

(I was so upset to learn his antenna aren't cannon) 😔

[otterloreart]

Club Puffin

Emotes: idle, walk, "piloting a nest like snoopy piloting his doghouses" (the nest is invisible)

A friend of mine is really into Club Penguin revival projects and asked me about teaching some of the artists from one of the projects how to model for it so that they could add clothes to it

Well, thanks to Club Penguin artist Chris Hendricks we actually have a pretty detailed outline of how the clothes for the game were made, and I used that to draft a plan of how one could do this in blender:

The penguin and clothes are first modeled in 3D. Then the body of the penguin is deleted from the image, while keeping the "gaps" left by the overlapping body parts. This can be done automatically in blender by making the body green and using a color key in the compositing step, leaving just the parts of the shirt you need.

The hardest step is copying all the animations and lighting from the original, just like Chris discussed at the end of his video. But it's certainly doable.

[jadafitch]

Machias Seal Island Light, disputed water between the Gulf of Maine and the Bay of Fundy, Maine/New Brunswick. The lighthouse on Machias Seal Island is staffed by the Canadian Coast Guard. The island and its surrounding waters were declared a bird sanctuary in 1944. Its home to largest colony of puffins on the Atlantic Coast (south of the Gulf of St. Lawrence). During nesting season researchers reside on the island, keeping watch over the thousands of puffins, razorbills, murrs and other sea birds laying eggs and raising chicks. Machias Seal also attracts a lot of bird voyeurs from both sides of the bay, for that reason there also a resident warden on the island.

[battle-of-the-birds]

Remember to read about the contestants before voting!

Kiwi

Ah, the Kiwi. Yet again another flightless bird from New Zealand, who is still recovering from the introduction of predators to its homeland. They are the smallest living ratites (which includes emus and cassowaries), and true to their name they are New Zealand's response to the lack of rats on the island. This niche was filled in by the kiwi. They are nocturnal and lay very large eggs compared to their body size. Learn More!

Atlantic Puffin

These lovely little bright beaked birds are real charmers. With their faces that always seem to be smiling and they clank their little bills together with their mates. They carry a large amount of fish in their mouths, and nest on large islands with little predators although the skua will still attack the puffins. Although there are still a large number of them, the puffin is considered vulnerable due to high density population loss. Learn More!

(Kiwi photo by Edward Smith)

(Atlantic Puffin photo by Dorian Anderson)

[elliottnotyet]

Printed and cut my first prototype for Nest!

[Image ID: the card game Nest. 6 cards are laid out by the box. the cards are Toucan, Puffin, Cow Bird, Seagull, Arctic Tern, and Penguin. End ID]

[earthnashes]

It's been a long day, and Melon is exhausted. Ever since escaping Hookbill and those pesky Lakitus, he and Mario had been on the move almost non-stop, taking advantage of the Super Star Fruit's power to cover more distance. But it had to wear off eventually, with Mario burping off the remnant of the magic before they slowly--but surely- sunk all the way back to the forest floor and in the middle of the Sluggy Snowdrift Mountains.

As soon as they touched ground a blizzard fell upon them, and Melon set out to find suitable shelter.

So far, no such luck. No matter where he turned, all Melon could see was the vast expanse of snow, the screen of heavy snowflakes, and the dark silhouettes of tall mountain peaks in the distance. As a yoshi the cold didn't bother him as much, but he could feel the shivering of Mario upon his back even wrapped so tightly in his favorite blankie (how he managed to keep it, Melon can't be too sure).

Melon stopped for only a moment, just to pick the boy up from his back and instead cradle him close to his chest. He huffed hot air across Mario's red-tinged face, tucked his blanket closer (if that were possible). When all Mario did in response was shiver even harder, Melon let out a trill of distress; he had to find something.

With his eyes straining against the blizzard Melon set off again, head on a swivel in hopes of finding anything that could work.

His luck finally earned him a place in the form of an old burrow. It must've been home to a Huffin Puffin before it migrated. Whatever the case, it was empty, and Melon wasted no time setting the place straight.

Snow was dug out and away, debris cleared, dirt scrapped until it lay flat and dry. Only when he felt it right did he set Mario down in the bare nest, being sure to tuck him into his blanket before he settled in himself. Melon positioned himself in front of the entrance to shield the boy from the cold, curling protectively around him.

He didn't dare sleep, not at first. He waited until he felt Mario's shivering subsided, until his breath evened out into the cadence of a peaceful slumber. Until he was sure the kid was warm and secure, red eyes trained on his face for any sign of discomfort.

Mario eventually sighs and snuggles deeper into the yoshi's side, chewing contently on his binki, and it's only then Melon allows the insistent pull of sleep to drag him under.

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Against the darkness of the night, three pairs of red eyes peek into the den. Even against the howl of the blizzard they can hear the reptile's rumbling from within; it's likely a purr, but one as small as a mouse can never be too careful.

Two of the three stay back, mindful of their distance, but one braves the entrance and quietly patters into the den. Closer to the yoshi and the human cub he's curled around.

The hidden mousers squeak out questioningly, but the brave one doesn't answer at first. It clambers up a rock and leans as far as it dares, peering into the sleeping face of the small child.

Brown hair? Check.

Big nose? Check.

Red hat with an M? Double check.

This is the one they were searching for. The Tweeters reported true.

Finally the brave Mouser squeaks its affirmative; perhaps a little loudly, if the sudden growl--sleepy but full of warning-- was of any indication. The rodents flee the den before they could wake the yoshi and his boy up, cowardly but excited nonetheless.

The boss will be very pleased with their findings.

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Part 7<<– Part 8 (CURRENT) –>> Part 9 (TBA)

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Part 8 of Melon's Adventure is here! :) We're now entering the home stretch of the first act of this story; only 2 more parts to go!

I'm super excited to finally get so close to the end, largely because I have plans on making mini artbooks out of the story's illustrations (it'll include both the art and the written shorts). The books is planned to also include things like concept art, a few WIP progress shots of some of the pages, character bios of the main characters + enemies, and unique cover art. It's gonna be a bit of an undertaking but I think it'll be fun!

At any rate, that's all for now! Apologies for the writing in this one; I've been a little sick the past few days so the quality may have suffered a little bit, but I wanted to deliver both to ya'll on time. ;_; I hope you enjoy! More to come soon!