#asian fairy-bluebird

[emilylorange]

birdie backlog

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[397/10,977] Asian Fairy-Bluebird - Irena puella

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Family: Irenidae (fairy-bluebirds)

Photo credit: Arpit Bansal via Macaulay Library

[heracliteanfire]

Watercolour of feathers from Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu. Margaret B. L. Cockburn, ca. 1860.

via the Natural History Museum

[boldlyzooing]

Asian fairy-bluebird male (left) and female (right)

Burgers' zoo, Arnhem

[autisticrosewilson]

Wing AU's should capitalize on angel/Phoenix symbolism for Jason more I think

[herpsandbirds]

Asian Fairy-Bluebird (Irena puella), family Irenidae, order Passeriformes, Singapore

photograph by Moses Tang 

[mogai-sunflowers]

if you were able to keep as many birds as you wanted and like, all their habitats were perfect and maintained and the laws all allowed it and everything, how many birds would you have and what species??

wooooooooooo baby i wish i could upload pictures of all of them but there's a limit of 30 per post and that's nowhere near enough adfasfasdf. soooooo here's the official list of all of my favorite birds!

blue jay, eurasian jay, stellers jay, black collared jay, azure jay, northern cardinal, vermillion cardinal, desert cardinal, pileated woodpecker, great spotted woodpecker, red bellied woodpecker, eastern bluebird, mountain bluebird, gold finch, blue finch, scarlet finch, strawberry finch, rose finches, zebra finch, purple breasted sunbird, violet backed starling, blue vanga, blue dacnis, grandala, indigo bunting, lazuli bunting, rositas bunting, varied bunting, variegated fairy wren, splendid fairy wren, superb fairy wren, white winged fairy wren, philippine fairy bluebird, asian fairy bluebird, taiwan blue magpie, himalayan monal, tui, ravens, crows, blue crowned pigeon, victorian crowned pigeon, american robin, pink robin, lilac-breasted roller, european roller, indian roller, flying roller, blue-bellied roller, malachite kingfisher, woodlands kingfisher, azure kingfisher, rose-crested fruit dove, superb fruit dove, dracula parrot, hyacinth macaw, blue bird of paradise, anna's hummingbird, swordbilled hummingbird, swallowtailed hummingbird, fiery-throated hummingbird, lesser violetear, crowned woodnymph, blue chinned sapphire, mute swan, black swan, black-necked swan, bohemian waxwing, spangled cotinga, banded cotinga, brazilian tanager, australian diamond firetail, flame bowerbird, asian golden weaver, golden pheasant, malayan peacock pheasant, south philippine dwarf kingfisher, guineafowl, green junglefowl, blue-grey tanager, malachite sunbird, great sapphirewing, ruby-topaz hummingbird, fiery topaz, crimson topaz, rainbow bearded thornbill, violet sabrewing, long-tailed sylph, red-tailed comet, variable sunbird, helmeted woodpecker, red-crested cardinal, blue-winged mountain tanager, cinnamon hummingbird, antillean crested hummingbird, violet capped woodnymph, sparkling violetear, blue pitta, mandarin duck

[balanchine-ballet-master]

Four Dancers Promoted to Principal at New York City Ballet

by Gia Kourlas The New York Times

Early Sunday evening, just after New York City Ballet’s final performance of the season, four soloists received the kind of postseason gift every dancer dreams of: Emilie Gerrity, Isabella LaFreniere, Roman Mejia and Mira Nadon were elevated to the rank of principal dancer. They learned of their promotions onstage after the curtain fell on “The Sleeping Beauty,” receiving the news from Jonathan Stafford, the company’s artistic director, and Wendy Whelan, its associate artistic director. During that ballet’s two-week run, and throughout the winter season, they had all made important debuts, including originating roles in the premiere of Justin Peck’s evening-length “Copland Dance Episodes.”

Mira Nadon in The Sleeping Beauty. Photo by Erin Baiano.

Nadon, the youngest at 21, is newsworthy beyond her shimmering technique and overall radiance. She is also the company’s first Asian American female principal. (Her mother is South Asian.) “I had no idea,” she said, adding that the news was “really amazing and quite an honor.”

As for the promotion itself? Nadon, usually composed, sounded shaky. “I still haven’t quite processed it, but it’s just a whole new height that you have to hold yourself to,” she said. “To be in the top rank in the company is a big responsibility. I feel like I have a lot of work to grow into that title, but I’m really excited to start.”

During the winter season, Nadon, who was born in Boston and began her training at the Inland Pacific Ballet Academy in Montclair, Calif., was especially busy: She made debuts in George Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” and “Episodes,” Jerome Robbins’s “Rondo”—opposite LaFreniere—and as the Lilac Fairy and Diamond in Peter Martins’s “The Sleeping Beauty.”

Isabella LaFreniere as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. Photo by Erin Baiano.

Both she and LaFreniere, from Lambertville, Mich., were promoted to soloist in 2022. LaFreniere, 26, who danced Aurora in “Beauty” for the first time last week, joined the company in 2014. Injuries have curtailed her progress, but she emerged from the pandemic refreshed and recharged, making important debuts in two vintage gems: Balanchine’s “Chaconne” and Balanchine and Robbins’s “Firebird,” which she reprised this season with mystery and mastery.

Roman Mejia in Allegro Brillante. Photo by Erin Baiano.

Mejia, 23, who made “Beauty” debuts as Bluebird and Gold, has in recent seasons shown his athletic virtuosity as Oberon in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and in “Rubies” from “Jewels.” Born in Fort Worth, Texas, he has ballet in his blood. Starting at age 3, he began training with his parents, Maria Terezia Balogh and Paul Mejia, a former dancer with City Ballet. Mejia, too, was transformed after the pandemic; his brashness took on a new refinement, while retaining its ebullient power. In 2021, he was promoted to soloist.

Emilie Gerrity in Agon. Photo by Paul Kolnik.

Gerrity, at 32, has long been an integral, versatile member of the company, joining in 2010 and becoming a soloist in 2017. That kind of longevity can stunt a dancer, but Gerrity, who possesses a voluptuous strength, has seemingly used the time to develop her own artistic voice. This season, she made debuts as the Lilac Fairy in “Sleeping Beauty,” as well as in Balanchine’s “Walpurgisnacht Ballet.”

Born in Danbury, Conn., Gerrity began training at 5 and went onto study at the New Paltz School of Ballet and before joining City Ballet, studied at the company’s affiliated School of American Ballet, along with all the new principals. “I’m freaking out,” she said. “I feel crazy in all ways. I’ve worked my entire life to get here.”

Gerrity has been in the company the longest of the four. “I remember being like, I don’t know if it’s going to happen—because you really do never know,” she said. “But I was like, I’m getting these amazing opportunities, and why am I going to sit here and think maybe it’s not going to happen versus just applying myself and trying to be better each time?”

She added, “Of course, tears were shed.”

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I WAS THINKING THIS TOO!!

after seeing heaps of other people’s wing headcannons I looked up a bunch of birds with the right colours and it just works so well!! I especially like its little hairdo its funky

although a was a little conflicted when I found the Asian fairy-bluebird because it really reminds me of the Nightwing with the clear cut colours and vivid shade of blue like

woah

So I’ve been reading a bunch of Shifter Batfam fics and I have not seen ONE SINGLE fic depicting Dick as a Steller’s Jay.

A Steller’s Jay is black and blue AND is a Corvid just like a Robin.

I mean Look at it!!!!

Tell me this isn’t a NIGHTWING bird!!!!

[psikonauti]

Asian fairy-bluebird (Irena puella)

[deathtek]

8/9/21

[my-name-is-dahlia]

Asian fairy-bluebird (female) Irena puella Irenidae

Photographs taken on March 19, 2019, at Edward Youde Aviary, Hong Kong Park, Hong Kong.

[radwolf76]

And no, I wouldn't go to the zoo and just take pictures of the plants. Have a blurry shot of a tiny murder machine that had retreated back through its doorway to the back half of its enclosure.

And a shot my Metamour took of our spouse having a moment of bonding with an Asian Fairy-Bluebird over similar hairstyles.

Went to the zoo the other day.

[herpsandbirds]

Asian Fairy-Bluebird (Irena puella), family Irenidae, Alwaye

photograph by Baji Kuruvilla

[todaysbird]

the asian fairy-bluebird is a uniquely colored bird found in forests of southern asia. with only one other species in their genus, the philippines fairy-bluebird, they are distinct birds, the males having bright purple and black coloring and the females having a duller green-blue. both sexes have a bright crimson iris. these birds feed mainly on fruit, but also feed on nectar and occasionally insects. x