#STORK

[mevvsan]

Question of the day: Do you like your crochet projects to be challenging or relaxing? I really loved making my shoebill pattern because it was a challenge to improve my crochet skills. But after a year of more complicated crochet patterns, I'm thinking about toning it back next year, maybe making some more beginner friendly patterns. shoebill crochet pattern: availabe here Yarn: Must-Have by @yarnandcolors

[bloggingthefamily]

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Look at them!

[herpsandbirds]

Saddle-billed Storks (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), L- female & R - male, family Ciconiidae, Londolozi, South Africa

Photograph by Anthony Goldman

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

[doweesig]

Who invited this guy to the Yoshi meeting? 🤨

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Do you know whether Shax has an animal motif as well or not? She seems to be the only demon without any even subtle animal symbols, unless there's something I'm missing?

Hiya! :) Yeah, it's a stork! :) You can see it on their battle armour:) (and Shax has a Stork in the goetic grimoire Ars Goetia :).

[henk-heijmans]

A stork looks around from its nest on top of an old former East German Trabant - by Jan Bauer, German

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Result from the Pleistocene Cuba #paleostream! SO many cool creatures from here, and we JUST missed them, mostly because well, ourselves

Here the labeled version. This one was rather easy to research because i already ad done most of the research for a island size chart years ago.

This one. The only overhaul that was really needed was Antigone cubensis, the flightless crane, for which it is really hard to come by the original description.

Thankfully @albertonykus was able to provide and another friend quickly made this graphic showing some of the proportional differences between it ant its modern relatives.

[bumblebeeappletree]

In the northeastern part of India, the greater adjutant stork has been considered an ill omen for generations, and the endangered bird has paid the price. Its breeding population here fell to just 115 birds by the 1990s.

But when biologist Purnima Devi Barman witnessed villagers chop down a tree crowned with the storks’ nests — and chicks — she launched a grassroots effort to do something about it. Today, 10,000 women across the region have banded together to protect nests, raise fledglings, and run educational programs for children and adults explaining the benefits the storks bring to their communities. They even produce textiles that celebrate the giant bird — and bring critical income and empowerment to the local women who are safeguarding its future.

These efforts have been a resounding success for greater adjutant stork conservation. A recent survey found 1,830 of the distinctive birds in Assam, and the species’ status on the IUCN Red List has been changed from “endangered” to “near threatened” — a testament to what can be achieved with community conservation.

[todaysbird]

Today's bird is this jabiru at the Belize Zoo.

[wizardhecker]

Well, technically it can occur in Virginia sometimes I guess

By special request, Daily (delayed) bird, the Wood Stork

[herpsandbirds]

Jabiru Stork (Jabiru mycteria), FLY PROBLEMS!!!, family Ciconiidae, order Ciconiiformes, Pantanal, Brazil

photograph by Djamel Milano

[tinylongwing]

Painted Storks, for the "Nesting" card in in the Flight module for the board game Nature. Look at this beautiful stork! I fell in love quickly when looking at fun nest structures to use for this card. They have a PINK BUTT*!

*Butt= long feathers on the wing that overlap the tail when folded, not an actual butt. But like, it could be, if you dream hard enough.

[tokay-blog]

Black stork Zola :3

[morteraphan]

Card Commission for OiseauBlizzard (Twitter)! ♠️