#but not a bird tail

[washedoutwings]

trying to find a good comfortable way to lay down is not working rn

the phantom limbs make this so hard i swear

[todaysbird]

it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)

[makenna-made-this]

Okkkkkk so where is Chicken Miku?

Anon the way i dropped everything when i saw this

HATSUNE BEAK-U

(based on the Onagadori chicken breed)

[cozylittleartblog]

what if there was a plague doctor that was so so so cute (and was also secretly a bird themself)

[fernsnailz]

another piece for the "shadow is bad with technology" collection

[michaelnordeman]

Long-tailed tit/stjärtmes. Värmland, Sweden (January 27, 2024).

[kriegsnet]

Leucistic Red-Tailed Hawk. We've named her Lucy for short. Sony A7IV, 200-600mm G

[ambermaitrejean]

Juvenile red-tailed hawk. Arapahoe County, Colorado. Photos by Amber Maitrejean

[mapsontheweb]

Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record in 2022: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (average speed c.51 km/hr).

[niqvassieart]

Gouache painting of long-tailed tits for the upcoming book about my local nature reserve.

Long-tailed tits make stretchy nests from a base of moss and spider silk. On the outside they’re covered in lichen for camouflage and inside are lined with feathers for cosiness!

[besidethepath]

Spring equinox? Phhh - crap weather. But of course that doesn't stop the robins from singing.

[longingforrotkehlchen]

Quick! Make a wish! It might come true.

Schwanzmeise (long-tailed tit) im Büsnauer Wiesental, Vaihingen.

[todaysbird]

the white-tailed ptarmigan, also known as the snow quail, is a mountainous-dwelling bird and the smallest member of the grouse family. they are found at high altitudes in the continental united states, canada, and alaska. they have distinct ‘cryptic’ plumage, meaning that their plumage differs drastically throughout the year; during warm summers, they are speckled brown and black, going through an intermediary mottled phase before fully molting into their snow-white winter plumage. they primarily feed on insects and plant matter. their eggs are laid in a simple depression in the ground; the chicks are precocial and leave the nest soon after hatching.

[inatungulates]

Acapulco white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus acapulcensis

With white-throated magpie-jay Calocitta formosa

Observed by rodrigoarrazola, CC BY-NC

[birdblues]

Violet-tailed Sylph

[lichenaday]

Some of the baby birds I met on this recent round of field work:

1. Limosa limosa, black-tailed godwit

2. Haematopus ostralegus, oystercatcher

3. & 4. Numenius phaeopus, Eurasian whimbrel

5. Tringa totanus, redshank

6. Charadrius hiaticula, common ringed plover

7. Pluvialis apricaria, European golden plover