#Spotted Nutcracker

[uwmspeccoll]

A Corvidae Feathursday

Here are some more wood-engraved birds -- both black and white and hand-colored --by British author and wood engraver Eric Fitch Daglish (1892-1966) from his 1948 publication Birds of the British Isles, published in London by J. M. Dent & Sons in 1948 in a limited edition of 1500 copies. Today we display all the corvids from this volume, from top to bottom:

Common Raven (Corvus corax)

Western Jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)

Red-billed Chough (pronounced "chuf"; Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)

Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) 

Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)

Rook (Corvus frugilegus)

 Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)

 Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)

Read more about this book plus view a hand-colored engraving of a Hoopoe here.

View more Feathursday posts.

[birdblues]

Spotted Nutcracker

[tealbirder]

03 - Taiga (and a spotted nutcracker :>)

[corvid-language-library]

This evening's study: annotating a Nutrition magazine with Japanese FF7 Rebirth Let's Play as background noise.

It's been a good weekend so far 😊

[savage-rhi]

My legs and arms hurt from the climbing I did to get some of these views, but it's well worth it.

[thebusylilbee]

never heard of Nucifraga caryocatactes aka the Spotted Nutcracker until today :

this is a corvid who essentially feeds on the seeds of pines, especially the Pinus Cembra also known as the Swiss Pine. They can handle more than 6000 hiding spots at the same time ! This one, unlike its cousin the Jay, doesn't even need markings to find the hiding spots, the visual factor is not part of its memorization process. They can create their hiding spots more than 20km away from where they found the food and still find it again many months later.

France Culture just released a podcast series on corvids in France !!! fuck yeah I know what im doing in the next hours !!!

[isas-bathbombs]

You deserve questions too sammy!

For example, which barbie movie is your favorite?

OH MY GOD IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS QUESTION

i have a few favs this is so hard 😭 in general its always been barbie fairy secret, mariposa and the fairy princess, princess charm school, and pink shoes.

whats urs??

[chronicparagon]

[Small headcanon: Harmony adores ballet. She never got the chance to learn it but would love to see performances if she could. “The Nutcracker” is one she really wants to see.]

[twomothsholdinghands]

I swear a fnaf-type game set in Yankee Candle Village could slap so hard. Uncanny animatronic men and reindeer chasing you through room after room of kitschy home decor. Combine the nostalgia of childhood with white women jumpscares

[ndostairlyrium]

From the OC shop asks: Their pet has caused destruction. Who puts the pet in jail? Who defends the pet?

For as many of your ships as you'd like!

Hi!!! Thanks for asking 💛

El Memo

Oh dear, so, I'm going for all of them lol

Ela & Alistair; She defends the dog, because he's a good boy and he defended Ferelden when times were dire. Alistair would blame the dog for a mess he himself would make << he'd gladly put him into jail too

Barbara & Fenris; The dog did nothing wrong. Destruction was necessary.

Ankh & Cullen; It depends on which pet has caused it (they have 5, horsies included).

Cullen is firmer when educating pets and jail is an option, unless it's Cornelia (Ankh's red hart). Cornelia is rather smart and if she causes destruction there's a good reason behind it (no there isn't, he excuses her because she's fierce). He would explain to her what's wrong, she gets it (yes she does. Will she listen? No.)

Ankh is more on the "eh" side, like, she doesn't care if they do a mess, they're animals, just let them be. But! She does hate the damn crow, and it's reciprocated. Cage it is! Until he frees himself.

[senkayro]

technically an assassin protag will be a rook and crow simultaneously

that's the post

you get DOUBLE the bird symbolism babyyy

[courcgecus]

In mouse world, the Mouse King is pure strength build judging down magic users.

[canonrenaissance]

CR • Christmas Tree Farm

[jagalart]

Corvids

A set of stickers commissioned by the awesome @kyrjaa, who let me print and sell these in the future! Thank you again for this wonderful opportunity, I had so much fun with these <3

The set includes all corvids living in our part of Europe except for one - I need to draw Spotted nutcracker sometime as well :D

[corvid-language-library]

お邪魔します！

邪魔（じゃま）= hindrance, obstacle, nuisance, disturbance, interruption, interference

I just learned this phrase the other day. It's used when entering someone's house and kinda means "please excuse the intrusion!" or "I'm coming in!" (Or, literally: "I'm being a nuisance!" How very Japanese 😅)

Or, if you're an anime/video game bad boy, you can say: "邪魔するぞと"

[dustcrumbs]

When you try to warn the stupid ass employees about the monster called the MAN-EATER BUT THEY DONT LISTEENNN

Anyway lil hc's!! or.. canon facts ig??

Horror usually grabs Dust by the scruff and darts out of the area when they're facing terrible danger

Such as a nutcracker about to shoot Dust, Horror yanks him out the way. Finds him a safe hiding spot and deals with the danger.. Or just hides with him

Also, I think I'm gonna have Horror be slower than most Brackens, but WAAAYYYY stronger. Since he gets a lot more food n nutrients than the others

Horror, like most monsters, will be either unable to speak the human languages or be HORRIBLE at pronouncing anything. It's not just something they can learn.

Also, Nightmare will remind Dream of his older brother (Passive) before he went off to take on this same job. He never returns therefore causing Dream to think he abandoned him. Dream then takes on the same job in hopes to find closure or, better yet, find his brother and what happened to him.

That's why when he finds Nightmare the man-eater. He's feels drawn to them because it reminds him of himself but also his own brother. How scared he must've been down here.

Horror will go by he/him its/it

Nightmare will go by all pronouns, she don't really care