#birdblogging

[infernalhomo]

further reasons humans as a species should honestly entirely stop keeping parrots as pets (beyond all the obvious ones like the conditions forced on them by the physical limitations of domestic captivity leaving their inherent behavioural, dietary, and social needs chronically unfulfilled), vol. 69420:

twice a year they get a massive hormonal surge and wake up choosing violence. and you Will get bitten on the face for committing the heinous act of Existing Near Them

[chamomileeteaaa]

BIRD BLOG TIME FUCKERS

Okay so I have no clue how I'm gonna do this, I assume a format will arise as I go. But right now it's 3AM and I wanna talk about my favorite little birds: the Whooping Crane.

The Whooping Crane is one of the only two crane species native to North America, the other is the Sandhill Crane. (WE'LL GET INTO THOSE GUYS LATER I LOVE THEM TOO)

Anyway Whooping Cranes look like this:

LOOK AT THAT AND TELL ME THEYRE NOT SO CUTE???

Appearance:

You can identify adult Whooping Cranes by their white feathers and patch of red on their head, which goes from their beaks to their cheeks! This patch of red is actually skin and isn't very feathery. They have long, pointed beaks, usually a gray color as you see above. They have yellow eyes and long, thin legs. I've also seen that these cranes often have the tips of their wings black.

Immature cranes have the same long beak and thin legs, but instead of white feathers, have a tan, cinnamon-brown coloring and no red spot. As they age, their white feathers come in, so the more brown feathers they have, the younger they are.

Did I mention that Whooping Cranes are really big? Because Whooping Cranes are BIG

The average height of these guys is approximately five feet (range of 4'1" to 5'3" from what I've seen) when they stand up straight, making them the biggest birds in North America. Their wingspan is 7.5 feet on average, though despite their massive height and wingspan, Whooping Cranes weigh roughly 15 pounds.

Habitat:

Whooping Cranes live in marshes, wetlands, fields, anywhere wet and grassy. They breed in the upper Midwest and around northwest Canada, and migrate south to the Gulf Coast, around Mexico.

I should also mention that Whooping Cranes are very endangered as a species. In the 1940s, due to overhunting and habitat loss, there was once only 21 Whooping Cranes alive—15 migrate birds in Canada/Texas, and 6 that lived year-round in Louisiana.

With human intervention, the species has now risen to a population of roughly 800 (I found an exact number of 836, but can't speak for its accuracy).

Here's a migration map I took of off savingcranes.org (please visit them, they're so cool)

Diet:

Whoopers (I saw someone call them that) ate omnivores, eating a mix of insects, amphibians, crustaceans, reptiles, and small fish and mammals. They'll also eat grain, marsh plants, plant tubers, and acorns.

Fun Facts:

Whooping Cranes' call sounds like a squeaky door. People will try to tell you it's this majestic, one-note mating call, but it is a door hinge that needs some WD-40. Here's a few videos on what they sound like :)

( https://youtu.be/NFzkXdZjQJM

https://youtu.be/8EobJR_jkjs )

Because of how Whooping Cranes almost went extinct, biologists had used aircrafts to teach young cranes how to migrate. (Here's an article on it: https://www.npr.org/2016/03/02/468045219/to-make-a-wild-comeback-cranes-need-more-than-flying-lessons)

They mate for life! They search for a mate at around 2-3 years, and then mate for life. They'll also continuously return to the same nesting and wintering territories. However, should their original mate die, they'll find another mate.

It's late, otherwise I would do more😭

Sources:

https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/whooping-crane

https://savingcranes.org/learn/species-field-guide/whooping-crane/

https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Birds/Whooping-Crane

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Whooping_Crane/?_gl=1*10vkxuh*_ga*OTQ5Mjc2MzYyLjE2ODg1NDEwODY.*_ga_QR4NVXZ8BM*MTY4ODU0MTA5NS4xLjEuMTY4ODU0MTEyNC4zMS4wLjA.&_ga=2.29534207.1501623720.1688541086-949276362.1688541086

https://abcbirds.org/bird/whooping-crane/

I highly recommend checking these sites out, not just for Whooping Cranes, but for other birds.

[lovingcare-1210pro]

[mmbirdtoys]

The Bird Blog: Caique Parrots

Learn about the beautifully colored and supremely playful Caique Parrots.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Out of curiosity what do you dislike about Ada Palmers books

so tbc i made my way thru vol 1 of terra ignota and the first bit of vol 2 before quitting, so im working with a limited sample. but such is the case with dismissal! so here goes:

the prose is... bad. its very likely i should just develop a higher tolerance on this, ik im effectively gatekeeping myself from some very conceptually solid fiction over a relatively superficial skill detached from the stuff that really deeply matters, but the style on a sentence-to-sentence level is just very underwhelming, which is a particular problem when in universe its supposed to be elevated and uplifting (like the speech at renunciation day). i dont mind purple prose but it like marries imo the worst aspects of purple and bland, its a chore to get thru it

the pacing feels sort of mechanical and arbitrary,. every fifty pages, on the dot, theres another twist pulled from the Twist Bag! im told this im proves but its a) not enough to make up for the other deficits and ii) a common thing said when it takes a certain amount of time for ppl to inure themselves to an in fact persistent defect in a long work

Your Kink Is Not My Kink (But Your Kink Is OK)

i do not care about these characters. its hard for me to go into more detail bc i have little grip on what makes characters "work" for me in general but i just. dont care what happens to any of them (besides best not-girl eureka weeksbooth 🤤)

the worldbuilding. by far the biggest letdown. ppl will tell you—repeatedly, at length—that this is the great strength of the series. do not listen to them! they are misguided. ada palmer is really good��gifted, even—at the first step of worldbuilding, much moreso than most writers! shes top notch at coming up with a broad element of the society that makes you think "whoa, i want to know how that works!" and then... you never do. the depths are never plumbed. the depths are never even adequately hinted at. nor are the depths even conspicuously hidden from view! she just... tells you that there are a bunch of totally complicated details, trust me guys, look here i came up with some technobabble and some percentages like i totally promise theres stuff going on behind here! but there just, so aggravatingly obviously isnt! the technobabble does not even give the illusion of depth, the way (imo) it does in almost nowhere, it gives the appearance of earnestly trying to project such an illusion. tears me out of the immersion every time. its probably worth mentioning that i know from firsthand reports that she is into larp stuff irl, which is notorious for attracting ppl with a high tolerance for would be un-suspensors of disbelief. which, again, may be a virtue on their part! but if so its one i lack, at least here

i was talking to birdblog who suggested much of it might be that the work is very capital-L Liberal, and i am very not. which i think is kind of true, but less in that this is a drawback it possesses and more that its a virtue it lacks. theres lots of fiction i enjoy that is transparently committed to big philosophical/moral/political claims im vehemently opposed to! off the top of my head: any shakespeare that involves kings, any bernard shaw that involves Society, log horizon (at least s01, havent seen past it), nausicaa of the valley of the wind (the manga, the movie is sort of opaque philosophically), a bunch of outright propaganda films from wwii (american, british, russian, japanese), several kipling short stories...

but like, i think that a visceral sympathy for the earnestly felt message of a work of art does help one excuse other flaws, and i suspect a lot of my fundamentally Liberalism-oriented friends are able to enjoy the series bc the author shares that same basic vision. which is certainly like, an interesting one! but on its own its not enough to compel me past the artistic demerits by being either spiritually akin to encourage me or sufficiently weird and novel to fascinate me

anyway, tell me why im wrong, terra ignotans! humani nihil a me alienum puto

[metamatar]

it's so hard being a birdblog on here when the most prolific birdbloggers on here are ecofashy overpopulation types

[please-give-me-birds]

you're a birdblog and thus i want to show you one of my favorite birds

mourning dove : ] core childhood noise, i'll see some of these fellas around in my state. overall very nice bird! (link on image is it's source)

He’s lovely!!!!! We have collared doves in the uk which look very similar and also have a very iconic call, although it sounds different to a mourning dove. I love seeing them around. Thank you for showing me!! :D

[coppercanary]

you're birdblogging in a really beautiful way tonight. keep it up buddy

hell yeah we love nuthatches in this house :D

[okapiaconcolor]

birdblog:

Leucism, or leukism, is an abnormal plumage condition caused by a genetic mutation that prevents pigment, particularly melanin, from being properly deposited on a bird’s feathers. As a result, the birds do not have the normal, classic plumage colors listed in field guides, and instead the plumage have several color changes, including: white patches where the bird should not have any; paler overall plumage that looks faint, diluted or bleached; or overall white plumage with little or no color discernible.

Leucism is relatively unusual in birds, and albinism is rare. From 2000-2006, Project FeederWatch participants reported fewer than 1000 leucistic birds. Given that participants report about 5.5 million birds each season, the percentage of leucistic birds being reported is very small.

Leucistic Red-Tailed Hawk photos by J Centavo on Flickr

[isopod-pussy-indulgence]

[bsideyarn]

Pinned post about meeeee :3

☆ I’m Yarn! But you can also call me Locket or Kay ^-^

☆ My current main interests are: Littlest Pet Shop, Splatoon, Ace Attorney and Stardew Valley! But I also enjoy many other things :)

☆ I make art! You can find it here

☆ Some days I have a hard time finding the right words to express myself, so my tone may be awkward or confusing. If something I say sounds off I can try to reword things if you ask. I never mean to sound rude!

☆ Proshippers, TERFs, exclusionists and other harmful views please stay away from me forever

Ok that’s all thank you for reading <3

[emilianadarling]

Kitchen Window (April 2022): A friend sent me this message, including this set of bird photos. 

10/10, outstanding bird-based content, I will not be taking questions at this time. 

[chamomileeteaaa]

Yknow maybe this will just be a bird blog, maybe I'll just post about birds and people who stumble across this little page of mine can learn something interesting

@purplexyellow bird blog bird blog bird blog

[lovingcare-1210pro]

[mmbirdtoys]

A great article with lots of information about how to build excellent backyard bird sanctuaries, from Redfin:

https://www.mmbirdtoys.com/a/blog/building-a-backyard-bird-sanctuary

Are you passionate about birdwatching and want to create a haven for our feathered friends in your backyard? Building a backyard bird sanctuary is an enriching and rewarding endeavor that not only invites an array of bird species to your home, but also contributes to their conservation and well-being. From planting native plants to providing nesting opportunities and water features, this article will help you create a vibrant and sustainable sanctuary where birds can thrive. Whether you’re renting a home in Spokane, WA, or you just bought a house in Charleston, SC, Redfin reached out to bird experts, including us to share our tips on how to design and maintain a backyard bird sanctuary. Check out Feathering the Nest: Expert Tips for Creating a Backyard Bird Sanctuary to get started.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

@birdship replied to your post “Top 10 reasons to eat ass”

please explain how eating ass is similar to playing tetris

Tetris is a great way to kill time while you wait for your friends to finish the game. It is a solitary activity; you can play it on your own, or with other people, but you will never have the same experience twice.

The feeling of finally having enough points to win, of winning the game and being rewarded with a special power-up, of going from zero to 60 is a special thing. It's like a magic trick – you can't quite believe it, but it still feels very good.

This one is easy, because it's all in my head. It's one of the many, many things that happens to me when I eat ass. I just do the typical "feeling the stretch, the energy building up, feeling the fullness" thing, then I do the "there's so much to take in, getting the second half of the ass" thing, etc.

I've got a bunch of other examples tagged by occasion if you want.