#condor chick

[chickflickswithgabbyandamy]

Season 2, Episode 7 | To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)

What better way to celebrate the beginning of spring than with a teenage romcom? To All the Boys I've Loved Before tells the story of Lara Jean Covey, a romance-novel-loving teen who writes (but does not send) love letters to her crushes. When those unsent letters get delivered to her crushes, she tries to avoid total embarrassment by entering into a fake relationship with one of the recipients of the letters, a popular boy named Peter Kavinsky. Will real feelings develop? Of course! But the inevitability of their love does not detract from the enjoyment of watching it develop. Gabby and Amy discuss the many delights of this recent YA adaptation and make a case for its inclusion in the new chick flick canon.

https://chickflicks.libsyn.com/to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before

[crowsyart]

Some of these have way more meaning than others some are just vibe based I’m a bird guy I gotta birdify the soul eaters

Maka - Carolina Wren

Soul - Osprey

Black☆Star - Common Kingfisher

Tsubaki - Black Heron

Kid - Black Vulture

Liz - Red Tailed Hawk

Patty - Rough Legged Buzzard

Crona -Kauai o’o’

Ragnarok - Loggerhead Shrike

Medusa - Crested Serpent Eagle

Marie - Buff Orpington Chicken

Spirit - Red Crested Cardinal

Stein - Harpy Eagle

Death - Andean Condor

Justin - Turtle Dove

Giriko - Hoatzin

Eruka - Potoo

Mifune - Snowy Owl

Sid - Ostrich

Hero - Grey Catbird

Asura -Magnificent Frigatebird

Naigus - Groove Billed Aini

Asuza - Western Jackdaw

[wachinyeya]

Two Critically Endangered Baby Condors Born in National Park Are Healthy, ‘Adorable Fluffballs’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/two-baby-condors-in-national-park-are-healthy-adorable-fluffballs/

[ovaruling]

listening and learning. the future has always been female

by Michael Roppolo

June 8, 2023 / 1:32 PM / CBS News

Researchers have identified the first known case of a crocodile making herself pregnant — and producing a fetus that was genetically identical to herself. The findings were published Wednesday by a team led by evolutionary biologist Warren Booth from Virginia Tech in Biology Letters, a journal published by the Royal Society.

In 2018, officials with the Parque Reptilandia in Costa Rica found 14 eggs in a female's enclosure. The crocodile had been in isolation since the age of 2, yet she still managed to lay a clutch of eggs at 18.

"Given the period of isolation from mates, these would normally be considered non-viable and discarded," the researchers wrote. But the officials gathered seven eggs that appeared viable and kept them in an incubator.

There were several signs that one of the eggs may be viable, Booth told CBS News.

"Viable eggs are often bright white, whereas infertile may be more yellowish," he said. "When held up to a flashlight, viable crocodile eggs will have a distinct band, whereas non-viable will simply glow yellow."

Costa Rica officials reached out to experts in the U.S. for consultation — ones that specialized in parthenogenesis. The term is derived from the Greek words "parthenos," meaning "virgin," and "genesis," meaning "origin," according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

Booth, and co-author Gordon Schuett of Georgia State University, had published multiple papers on the topic. As such, they were the "go-to people," Booth told CBS News.

Once considered rare, so-called virgin births have been documented among various species — including sawfish, snakes, sharks, and birds. The process, which is more common in the plant and insect worlds, allows a female organism to replicate itself without fertilization from a male.

In 2021, a study found that California condors can have virgin births. Researchers with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance said genetic testing confirmed that two male chicks that hatched in 2001 and 2009 from unfertilized eggs were related to their mothers. Neither was related to a male. In 2019, an anaconda housed with two other females gave birth. DNA testing would later confirm that the anaconda babies were reproduced through parthenogenesis.

In the case of the crocodile in Costa Rica, three months after workers found the eggs, none had hatched and only one egg was found to have a fully formed but nonviable fetus. DNA analysis would later determine that the fetus was 99.9% genetically identical to its mother.

Virgin births could be happening in crocodiles without anyone realizing, according to the researchers.

"These findings, therefore, suggest that eggs should be assessed for potential viability when males are absent," they wrote.

The authors suggest that in these cases among reptiles, birds, and now crocodiles, there may be a common evolutionary origin.

"This discovery offers tantalizing insights into the possible reproductive capabilities of the extinct archosaurian relatives of crocodilians and birds, notably members of Pterosauria and Dinosauria," they write, referring to flying reptiles that have been described as "close cousins" of dinosaurs.

Booth told CBS News that crocodiles are at the base of a lineage known as the archosaurs, with the most recent members being birds. All of these creatures use the same complex form of parthenogenesis, or terminal fusion automixis. It is unlikely they all developed independently.

"The cool aspect is that in between crocodiles and birds are the pterosaurs and dinosaurs," he added. "Given that all of these lineages use the same mechanism, it is highly likely that pterosaurs and dinosaurs also had the capacity to produce parthenogenetically."

[mjrtaurus]

I know Dragon didn't awaken his fruit until adulthood, but I can't stop thinking about Garp using a vulture hand puppet to feed Baby Ed and Viggo like how zoos do with condor chicks.

For years every time Dragon saw something that looked even remotely like a vulture he would reflexively open his mouth and he had no idea why.

He didn’t awaken his fruit that young, no, but he did have his fruit when he was young. He would sometimes whoopsie himself into the full (unawakened) single-headed amaru form like Momonosuke did with the SMILE fruit. And in that form he definitely was the fluffiest, scruffiest little beast you ever did see.

And Garp absolutely used the sock puppet technique, even though Dragon didn’t require it. It meant he got more food because Garp thought it was adorable.

[croaksac]

Can you give me a celebration I was literally just born

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

A Robin With The Wings of a Crow

by StarsAndWhales Robin’s wings were beautiful. He was a goshawk, despite his name. Tim had taken a photo of his wings to identify and figured out that he was a Northern Goshawk specifically. Known for their agility, speed, and maneuverability. Perfect for an acrobat. Perfect for a fighter. His wings stretched out behind him in a shock of bright gray, black spots dancing across them like brush strokes. They were so mature on the juvenile, already almost as tall as him. And there Tim Drake was, an ugly crow chick. Words: 5075, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Young Justice - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Tim Drake (DCU), Tim Drake's Parents, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Kon-El | Conner Kent Relationships: Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, Tim Drake & Kon-El | Conner Kent, Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Jason Todd Additional Tags: BAMF Tim Drake (DCU), Wings, Wingfic, Tim Drake is Robin (DCU), Dick Grayson is Nightwing, Mention of Death, because Jason Todd, no beta we die like jason todd, Tim drake is a crow, Tim Drake and Dick Grayson are Siblings, Good Sibling Dick Grayson, Good Parent Bruce Wayne, Bad Parents Jack Drake and Janet Drake, Tim Drake-centric (DCU), jason todd is a condor, dick grayson is a goshawk, Dick Grayson is a Better Parent Than Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne is a Bat, Alternate Universe - Wings, Flying, Fear of Flying, Tim Drake Gets a Hug (DCU) via https://ift.tt/gdoEc4F

[learnyouabiology]

Hello! Why did penguins evolve to have black feathers if they live in icy (mostly white?) locations? I understand them having a white tummy because when swimming they could be more difficult to identify by a predator swimming below them? Thanks!

Love your blog!

Hello! So, here's what I learned at uni:

the widely-accepted reason penguins have black feathers is the same reason they have white tummies, but backwards. When swimming, they are more difficult to identify by a predator swimming above them! You can see similar countershading in sharks and dolphins, and also on land animals like mountain goats and lizards. Overall, it helps to make animals less obvious when viewing from the side, because it reduces the obviousness of their shadow.

As to why penguins have black feathers in icy, mostly white, locations (on LAND), you need to consider why it would be good to be white in an icy, white location in the first place!

Mostly, it would provide camouflage, which would protect from land predators! However, penguins don't really have any significant land predators in Antarctica. There are no polar bears, or big snakes, or even foxes or coyotes in Antarctica, so the penguin won't benefit from being camouflaged on land. Basically, there's no "selective pressure" for them to be all white!

some penguin chicks, however, do have to worry about a few predators, so they have a little more camouflage than the adult penguins:

What's more, there are likely advantages to black feathers in a cold environment like Antarctica! For example, in the sun, dark feathers absorb more thermal energy, helping to warm the penguin and maintain their body heat.

There may also be some stuff with black feathers being more resistant to wear/ friction drag in the water, but that's entering the realm of ongoing research, which I won't get into here.

Let me know if there's anything that needs clarifying!

(some citations if anyone wants further reading:)

Bonser, R. H. (1995). Melanin and the abrasion resistance of feathers. The Condor, 97(2), 590-591.

Ksepka, D. T. (2016). The penguin's palette--more than black and white: this stereotypically tuxedo-clad bird shows that evolution certainly can accessorize. American Scientist, 104(1), 36-44.

Rowland, H. M. (2009). From Abbott Thayer to the present day: what have we learned about the function of countershading?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1516), 519-527.

Zagrai, A., & Hassanalian, M. (2020, July). Penguin coloration affects skin friction drag. In 2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference.

[rjzimmerman]

"A face only a mother could love......"

Excerpt from this story from the LA Times:

A new method of rearing California condors at the Los Angeles Zoo has resulted in a record-breaking 17 chicks hatched this year, the zoo announced Wednesday.

All of the newborn birds will eventually be considered for release into the wild under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s California Condor Recovery Program, a zoo spokesperson said.

“What we are seeing now are the benefits of new breeding and rearing techniques developed and implemented by our team,” zoo bird curator Rose Legato said in a statement. “The result is more condor chicks in the program and ultimately more condors in the wild.”

Breeding pairs of California condors live at the zoo in structures the staff “affectionately calls condor-miniums,” spokesperson Carl Myers said. When a female produces a fertilized egg, the egg is moved to an incubator. As its hatching approaches, the egg is placed with a surrogate parent capable of rearing the chick.

This bumper year of condor babies is the result of a modification to a rearing technique pioneered at the L.A. Zoo.

Previously, when the zoo found itself with more fertilized eggs than surrogate adults available, staff raised the young birds by hand. But condors raised by human caretakers have a lower chance of survival in the wild (hence the condor puppets that zookeepers used in the 1980s to prevent young birds from imprinting on human caregivers).

In 2017, the L.A. Zoo experimented with giving an adult bird named Anyapa two eggs instead of one. The gamble was a success. Both birds were successfully released into the wild.

Faced with a large number of eggs this year, “the keepers thought, ‘Let’s try three,’” Myers said. “And it worked.”

The zoo’s condor mentors this season ultimately were able to rear three single chicks, eight chicks in double broods and six chicks in triple broods. The previous record number of 15 chicks was set in 1997.

[follow-up-news]

A record 17 California condor chicks hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo during this year’s breeding season for the endangered birds, officials announced Wednesday. All the chicks will be candidates for release into the wild as part of the California Condor Recovery Program, the LA Zoo said in a statement. The 17th and final bird of the season hatched in June and is thriving, zookeepers said. The previous record was set in 1997, when 15 California condor chicks hatched at the zoo. “Our condor team has raised the bar once again in the collaborative effort to save America’s largest flying bird from extinction,” Rose Legato, the zoo’s Curator of Birds, said in the statement. Legato said the recent record is a result of new breeding and rearing techniques developed at the zoo that put two or three chicks together to be raised by a single adult condor acting as a surrogate parent. “The result is more condor chicks in the program and ultimately more condors in the wild,” Legato said.

[scuddle-bubble101]

Hi Pud!!!! top five favorite birds?

BIRRBENS!! NEMS I LOVE YOU FOR THIS!!!!

I love so many borbs LIKE MAH GAD. Birbs just HVJDFHVFDJ BRIBSSS!!

So! So!

First and foremost! I love any Crow, Magpie, Raven or Corvids. They are so intelligent and so friggen cute!! I love the way their plumage shines in the light and that they are such a wonderful candidate of learned behavior!! This means, they are so good at retaining what was taught to them that they can literally pass it down to their chicks and their enter MURDER!!!

Swans. BEAUTIFUL BIRDS BUT NASTY TEMPERS. I love them though. They have such elegant dances and despite a murder machine on webbed feet... They earn my respect for being so badass. plus swan chicks are just adorably ugly and I love them with all my friggen heart.

ANY RAPTOR AND I MEAN ANY. Hawks, Eagles, Vultures, Condors. YOU NAME IT I LOVE IT. I DON'T CARE IF CONDORS AND VULTURES ARE BALD. THERE SUPER GOOD AT MAKING SURE WASTED REMAINS ARE NEVER WASTED!! WE LOVE THE GARBAGE CREW OF THE SKIES!!

Ducks, enough said. and, Owls <- Don't get me started on owls. I have so much love and facts on them I will explode.

annnnd PIGEONS!!!! LOVE OUR DOMESTIC BIRBENS! LOVE THEM I SWEAR TO NON GOD. I love pigeons, I will fight to the end of my days for their silly nature, and sweet disposition. DOVES ARE PIGEONS GUYS AND THEY WERE MADE AS A PEACE SYMBOL FOR A REASON! Please, love these local dumbs of love. They really have so much love to give <333

[temperedaxe]

Popo and Nana spot a baby condor. "It's a small condor." The condor chick landed on Nana's head. "What's this?" (Nana is confused because the condor chick landed on her head) "Will it eat carrots?" "It swallowed it whole."

描いた漫画はこのページに継ぎ足していくか、きりがいいところでまとめて投稿しようと思います。 I plan to add the created comics to this page, or compile them and post them again when it’s a good time to do so.

[beardedmrbean]

Brother, want some news that made me big mad to hear?

In my hometown a couple weeks ago someone shot a California Condor and now the Games warden is tearing ass to get the guy that did it.

Got any fun facts about that bird to brighten the day or do you wanna suffer with me?

We finally got those off the critically endangered list a year or so ago I thought, ain't just gonna be the game warden going after him. Feds are gonna get in on that and not the FBI but one of the ones that actually does its job.

Wrong about the critically endangered, but we're getting there.

Here's a kinda weird infodump that plays in no particular order, except the last 3 images because I noticed they were numbered.

Here's from 2019

Went through like 15 pages to find a good video, birdoftheweek was on the first page.

Looks like there's a bunch over at Pinnacles, used to hike and climb there all the time but there were no condors that I can recall from the mid to late 90's.

Let's see what the Park Service has to say, (they say there were I'll trust them)

California condors once ranged from British Columbia, Canada down to Baja California, Mexico. This range shrank with the increase of European settlers moving west. The causes of the decrease in condors included poisoning, shooting, habitat degradation, and the collection of eggs and feathers. By the late 1800s, naturalists were already making note of the California condors’ declining numbers and in 1967, condors were listed as an endangered species. Despite this protection, their population continued to decrease and dropped to a low of 22 individuals in the 1980s. All wild condors were then trapped and placed in captive breeding programs in an effort to save the species from extinction.

Since 1992, captive-bred condors have been released at five different sites in western North America (Pinnacles National Park, Big Sur, Hopper Mountain Wildlife Refuge Complex, Vermillion Cliffs, and Baja California). Each release site monitors the flock’s behaviors, movements, nesting attempts, and mortalities. Pinnacles joined the recovery program in 2003 with the release of 2 captive-bred condors on December 20th. In 2016, the first condor chick since 1898 (condor 828) fledged from a nest within Pinnacles. Since their reintroduction, condor numbers in the wild have slowly increased thanks to wild nesting and the release of captive-bred condors. As of the end of 2018, there were a total of 488 condors in the world, with 312 of those flying free in the wild. However, condors today are still dying due to lead poisoning, consuming litter and microtrash, and electrocution from power poles. Learn more about what you can do to help condors and other wildlife here.

ones over by Pinnacles might be in the group for your local deal, or maybe there's other groups in the area too.

Speaking of that area, can I just tell you how confusing it was for me as someone who had done the 152 run oodles and oodles of times when the Hollister clothing brand came out and made it big.

All I could think was who in the world would think that's a place that should have a "cool" clothing brand named after it.

Few years later I learned it was a gap thing and most people had no clue Hollister was a real place, lol.

You may proceed to laugh at me now.

[murderballadeer]

tagged by @sheburnedlikeabride to spell my url out with songs yayyyy ty abigail

me and bobby mcgee - janis joplin

used cars - bruce springsteen

rainy night house - joni mitchell

diamond in your mind - solomon burke

early autumn - ella fitzgerald

ramblin' boy - tom paxton

black is the color of my true love's hair - nina simone

all quiet on the western front - phil ochs

love is just a four-letter word - joan baez

long time gone - the chicks

angel from montgomery - bonnie raitt

down by the riverside - pete seeger

everybody loves to cha-cha-cha - sam cooke

el condor pasa (if i could) - simon & garfunkel

return of the grievous angel - gram parsons

tagging whoever wants to do it just say i tagged you go be free

[supremebirdbracket]

The ultimate vulture showdown! Accipitridae vs Cathartidae! Our bone-eating fashionista vs a giant in the process of an incredible comeback!

Bearded vultures seem to have achieved Tumblr fame, and just how much fame that is will be put to the test in this bracket! These vultures have a wide but sparse distribution across Eurasia, occurring in Spain, Morocco, East and Southern Africa, and Western and Central Asia. They greatly prefer mountainous regions. They weigh 4.5–7.8 kg (9.9–17.2 lb) and have wingspans of of 2.31–2.83 m (7 ft 7 in – 9 ft 3 in). Their plumage appears red or orange, but is actually naturally white. They achieve these bright colors by preening colorful dirt into their feathers, and the color is theorized to be a status symbol. Females, which are larger and more dominant, are more brightly dyed. Bearded vultures’ diets are up to 90% bone; it is mostly chicks that eat skin and meat. Adults can crack bones up to the size of a lamb’s femur with their powerful beaks, and break larger ones by dropping them on rocks. They are considered Near Threatened overall but are heavily endangered in Europe due to habitat loss, collisions with power lines, poisoning, and hunting.

California condors are currently extant in the southeast United States, though their range formerly extended from the northwestern US through northern Baja California in Mexico. They live in shrublands and forests, especially near rock cliffs. Their wingspan ranges from 2.49 to 3 m (98-118 in) and their weight from 7-14.1 kg (15-31 lb). A condor may travel 250 km (160 mi) in one day while scavenging! Since they have a very poor sense of smell, they find carrion by watching other scavengers. These condors have a social hierarchy within groups, with older birds being dominant over younger ones. While still critically endangered, they are in the process of a famous comeback—where once they were extinct in the wild with 22 captive birds in 1987, there are now 537 of these condors, 336 in the wild.