#birds of the canada

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Turkey Vulture

Photo: Jon Cox

"A familiar sight in the sky over much of North America is the dark, long-winged form of the Turkey Vulture, soaring high over the landscape. Most birds are believed to have a very poor sense of smell, but the Turkey Vulture is an exception, apparently able to find carrion by odor."

- Audubon Field Guide

[bob-artist]

My brain: You have so many tight deadlines. So many things on your weekly schedule. So many important jobs. You have to get important work done!!!

My hands:

[great-and-small]

YES I’ve been chased and hissed at by a Canada goose but it doesn’t make me hate them guess I’m just built different

[peevishpants]

fuck it... bird sneaks

[savagegood]

enemies to lovers? and they were teammates - and roommates? men’s sports have nothing on women’s sports

and this particular guy... cry harder (imagine if women's sports had the funding, visibility and accessibility men's sports are gifted):

[mushbeast]

a drawing of a canada warbler since it's starting to feel like spring in saskatchewan

[minyicho]

Cape Barren goose (look at themmm!!)

Canadian goose (no.1 guard goose)

Barnacle goose (those are some cool looking stripes!)

Cackling goose (I bet this goose has a great cackle)

African goose (such elegance! and poise!)

Sebastopol goose (so floofy)

Egyptian goose (pretty colours!)

Ruddy-headed goose (check out that pattern!)

Bean goose (this looks like the kinda goose that would enjoy some beans)

Embden goose (the classic)

Toulous goose (majestic beasts)

feel free to reblog with your favourite geese that I might have missed!!

[harkthorn]

Canada goose dragon! HÖNK

-2618

[todaysbird]

if i do not need to get in there, there are no geese. however, if i think for a SECOND about accessing that area, they materialize

[peacephotography]

Great northern diver (Gavia immer) Cariboo region, Canada Photograph: Sue Dougherty

[daily-grian]

Mother Spore moment

[maureen2musings]

jennilsphotography

[snototter]

A varied thrush (Ixoreus naevius) stands out amongst the snow in British Columbia, Canada

by R Hardy

[great-and-small]

Bird identification is so fucked up in a really fun way you can’t understand until you get into it. For example, there is a type of goose called the cackling goose that looks exactly like a Canada goose except smaller and “cuter”. The cackling goose is way, way, more rare in most places than its relatively common cousin, so it’s on tons of birders life lists. Everyone wants to see a cackling (look in any bird ID group to see lots of hopeful people posting petite Canada geese). The two species regularly commingle, so sometimes a flock of those common parking lot birds will have the equivalent of a Pokémon shiny just hanging out in the middle of them.

How ridiculous and fun is that? I can never look at a big group of Canada geese without scrutinizing their ranks for an adorable little extremely rare cutie pie cackling goose. It reminds me a bit of mushroom harvesting minus the risk of death if you get it wrong

[asterwild]

one of these things is not like the others....the cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii) was once considered a subspecies of Canada goose (Branta canadensis). they have overlapping ranges and nearly identical plumage, but are significantly smaller than most Canada geese, with more compact features and higher-pitched vocalizations.

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Canada Goose gosling Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 3 uplands