#kea parrot kin

[sleepys-kin-posts]

could you maybe do a doodle over a kea parrot or/and a red fox? please don’t feel pressured tho, i can wait :)

Never heard of kea parrots before this, vary pretty birds.

Tumblr cropped the parrot weirdly, click for full image.

[passerineee]

as a fellow bird hybrid, im curious.

what spacific features of you are bird-like?

for example, i feel very simular to that of most scarlet macaw grian designs with bird talons and wings on my back, small wings on my temples, but i have feathers in my hair, and instead of a feathered tail, mine is to that of a blazeborn (my other kin) where its thin and wirey with a bit of fluff on the end, but the base its slightly feathery if that makes sense?

ooooh nobody has ever asked this to me before

i’m similar to grian’s kea parrot designs, but in bird terms i’m mostly just wings and tail. i’ve actually never thought about any other bird like features i might have, so i’m just assuming that i don’t have any feathers in my hair or talons? i’m actually not sure…

my wings are pretty normal i would say, they’re about 5, 6 feet across, (which ig is pretty big in parrot terms, but i don’t have anyone to compare to) and they’re rounded at the ends instead of sharp. i like to wrap them around me when i’m upset.

i’m not too sure about the details of my tail, but i’m pretty sure it’s sharp at the end, unlike my wings. other then that, the details are kinda vague

thanks for asking me this! i’ve never been asked this before, and it actually helped me learn a few things about the parrot part of myself!

[mythicalvoid]

A basic rundown:

You can call me myth if youd like

Pronouns: he/him voi/void fae/faun vwoop/vwoops

💙Kin:

Fae

Enderman

Void/void fae (term i made up that makes me happy)

Avian (humanoid but also maybe bird)

Feathered, copper, lightning dragon

💛Kith:

Mooblooms n mooshrooms

Piglins

Fae creatures

Raccoons

Copper

Stars

The end poem gives me emotions™️

💚Questioning:

Canary

Corvid

Parrot/kea

Grim reaper type thing (like a guide)

[pansexual-exoplanet]

THIS IS SO COOL and I just wrote my evolution final so I think I can help a little.

SO my favourite hypothesis about humans is that humans really evolved as scavengers and hunters if small prey, and tool use is something we developed to help us along the way. We also developed a language that's pretty flexible and it sets us apart from most other animals.

Now, there are birds that ALSO have tool use and language and my favourites are corvids (like crows and ravens) and parrots (like the kea who love fucking with people)(seriously there's tons of Youtube videos that are hilarious go watch them). They typically use stuff like twigs with their beaks to reach places they normally can't.

The way evolution works is that it acts on an organism at each stage of change, so each transitional form between an ancestor and a successor must be viable and fit. So I don't think they would lose their wings, because they provide an incredible fitness advantage to modern day birds in urban environments, and each transitional form would also benefit from the added mobility, they would likely keep their wings. Also their feathers help them fly and have been pretty fine tuned to do so, so I wouldn't expect those to change either.

What I would expect to improve is their ability to use and make tools. While modern day birds have some ability to craft and use tools, they are a bit awkward with it. I'd expect them to improve their neck dexterity to help manipulate tools in their beaks better (imagine the sphinx from dragon's dogma 2 levels of neck mobility). Their beaks could also become more supple (think rubber-like instead of the current rigid beaks) to firmly grip thicker tools. Their tongues would likely then evolve to be their primary means of manipulating these tools, probably with finer motor control developing at some point.

Another thing that would happen is an increase in the cranial volume and brain size, to support more sapient behaviours. Since bigger brains need to be carried around and are pretty expensive (in terms of fuel needed to use them, 20 percent of our resting calories are used by the brain) I'd expect this branch of birds to be bigger than their cousins. Bird brains are actually organised in structures similar to our own, with the pallium being analogous to the neocortex (the "thinking" part of the brain with the power to make associations), so they wouldn't have to be too big. They also can't be too big, because it would hurt their ability to fly. Either that, or they become big and eventually become flightless.

They also would speak using an organ called the syrinx, which would make a pretty unique language given that they could hold two tones at the same time. It sits deep within the chest, so any changes to it probably wouldn't be seen externally, but imagining a bird-kin musician singing both the lead and the backing track in a smoky pub is something I can't wait to read about.

SCIENCE TUMBLR could yall pls help me with something???

so, context, I have this OC species of bird ppl. and I know there's been design and design again(ex. harpies, arracockra- if I can spell idr) about this but I would like these to fit more into the weirdcore aspect, or more wobbly on that line between realism and fantasy than the other things go.

IF birds were to evolve similarly to HUMANS/MONKEYS, realistically, how would this play out?

would the more predatory birds play the role of humans, and the others would play monkeys? would they keep their wings, or would they fall into useless(?) bones territory like our tails? would feathers reduce to similar areas as our hair? how different would the eyes be, how would beaks evolve?

what's more, how could we/I change these bird-based humans to be able to communicate with monkey-based humans?? what would need to happen to the beak to be able not only to speak birdlike but monkeylike as well???

AUGH IM STARTING TO LOVE THIS REVAMP ALREADY