#murrelet

[strflr]

Guadalupe Murrelet & Araripe Manakin #avianaugust!

carrd / patreon

[suzythesilkie]

I love Murrelets

[doomsdaybear]

It’s okay to let go, you’ve been holding on for so long.

Art trade with @felidaeng

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Marbled Murrelet

Photo: Eric Ellingson

"A strange, mysterious little seabird. Although it is fairly common off the northern Pacific Coast, its nesting behavior was essentially unknown until the 1970s. In the Pacific Northwest, now known to nest high in trees in old-growth forest several miles inland from coast. Even where numerous, it is usually seen on the water in pairs or aggregations of pairs, not in large flocks; pairs flush from the water in front of approaching boats, fly away low with very rapid wingbeats."

- Audubon Field Guide

[scottpartridge]

I love ur birds so much you capture their vibes so phenomenally! I saw you did the mourning doves based off an ask, if you have more in ya could you do a marbled murrelet?

Glad you like. Here are the Marbled Murrelets. Also, their figures from the AVE (Avian Vector Encyclopedia)

[dovesick]

california coastline

[honeyhobbs]

Posting some of my favorite Avian August works here :)

[imperfectnothing]

Thought of Fai and Yume for no reason a moment ago, and now it won't leave my head the connection I have made of them (+ ciaran & murrelet) with other characters in Danganronpa: Another Despair/DRA.............

!!!!!!!!! Incoming nerd ramblings but keeping them way shorter because I don't want to . Spoil the game. It's so good. So not nearly as ramblings but just me talking about aus tbh w/ the 4 Musketeers (this is just as long as my other asks on your main. Dear God I should mute myself)

First I had them as "Yuki" and Akane, but it would only work in chap6 when the masterminds are revealed (the boredness that MM1 has while Taira is just ecstatic and all about "hes so great, he saved me and I'll forever follow him"). But then I thought of it more and Fai is very Kinjo Tsurugi. Kinjo is so cold, a straight forward guy and such, (tho if in SDRA2, he would most definitely be Syobai. No doubts, only in DRA I see him being Kinjo, for the small things..). — but he's so open to 'Yuki'. He's only ever vulnerable around him (Ciaran can be "Yuki" in this context, but along with Murrelet)- the free time events you can have with him show that.

The memorable thing in my head of Kinjo and Akane is a similar slap scene to Togami and Aoi, and then the mastermind reveal (a bit too early in the chapters but DRA is FUN like that). And honestly the funny thing about Akane is that she is also, honestly a generic girl. So like- that ties well with Yume, and the switch up also ties up with him. The obsession, the devotion. Again, the whole he's so great, he saved me and I'll forever follow him.

With having Fai, Cia and Yume already figured out, I then I had to fill up the space of Murrelet, and I went with Haruhiko (might change if plip decides to do anything with murr). But for now, it's just because I see Murr as just some silly guy caught up in this square with three unhinged guys (again might change, and so he might also be... Shuts up before I say the name and spoil it all)

The thing that's super interesting to me about Fai and Yume's relationship is how utterly incomprehensible it is. Like obviously, from an outside glance, it doesn't really seem that way, it seems pretty straightforward, Fai is the person who is kind of gruff and mean towards Yume and seems not to like him and Yume actually kind of acts like himself around Fai but only because there isn't any expectation of Fai judging him for that. Maybe I'm misremembering, if I am, I'm so sorry but the thing about Fai, when it comes to Yume, is Fai actually cares about him a lot more than he lets on. When Yume dies, that is a catalyst in a downward spiral for Fai which ends up with him lashing out at the other two musketeers and isolating himself (commitment issues) because he views himself as someone who only makes other people's lives worse.

As much as Faisal is unsettled by Yume's obsession and his uncanny "generic" personality, Fai sees parts of himself in Yume (which is why he initially despises Yume so much) but what he sees that's different, he loves. He loves Yume in his own fucked up way and when Yume dies and is brought back as some echo of himself, Faisal is extremely not okay about it.

So yeah thank you for sending me a Faiyume ask this was very fun to mull over and while I'll admit, I've not played Danganronpa, the way you articulate it and connect our characters to it is very very fun

(I'm gonna tag Starry and Plip just in case they want to be tagged, since Ciaran and Murr are mentioned- @starry-skiez and @pwippy)

[many-formed]

Wet

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Wednesday

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[sotogalmo]

11:51

4 Musketeers and yumdon brainrot with the song of How The Story Goes by xXantha-

"In the nighttime. Someone walks through the open door

The flash of eyes. Blade in hands that barely know what they're for

This place needs a hero; Are you the kind that runs or fights. You know she lies. Watching from a world that sits out of sight

Everytime you fail the world ends. Each and every fall her will bends. Everything there ever was or ever will be— So please don't set the monster free

Voices fill the air and leave you. Paranoid and cold and see through. Falling on your knees for one who deceives you

It's like she needs you

Oh how does the story go. How many ways do you think you know

A hero to save the day. And a princess to slay

In the silence. Trees unwinding against the sky. The planet cries. Frozen cold just like the look when it dies

We weren't made to fight. We were made to love and cry

We weren't made to lie. I can surely change your mind

What perspective do you need, To accept you're part of me

We weren't made to die. We were made to change their lives

Oh how does the story go. How many ways do you think you know

A hero to save the day. And a princess to slay

Oh how does the story end. How many ways can a god ascend

Together we'll rise above. Join me

my love."

This song is, to me, sung by the princess (The Shifting Mound). The ones that make me especially think of Musketeers & yumdon, is like—

"Falling on your knees for one who deceives you. It's like she needs you."; how Fai is like ...dog but 'bad' yk. But also about Cia, because. "It's like she needs you", is very Yume thinking of them as Ald (also Brandon, but that's way later)

"Oh how does the story go. How many ways do you think you know. A hero to save the day. And a princess to slay"; the main objective of the game is in the title. Slay The Princess. But it's the different ways of how you go about it. You go about it, it also affects her.

"Oh how does the story end. How many ways can a god ascend."; this lyric is more later in the song, but I think it's also fitting that like. It fits. How does the story go, to how does it end.

"In the silence. Trees unwinding against the sky. The planet cries. Frozen cold just like the look when it dies"; 'frozen cold just like the look when it dies', Yume killing himself.

"We weren't made to fight. We were made to love and cry. We weren't made to lie. I can surely change your mind. What perspective do you need, To accept you're part of me. We weren't made to die. We were made to change their lives"; Definitely just Yume towards the four. The first one for Faisal, the second one for Ciaran, the third one for Brandon, the last one for Murrelet

"Together we'll rise above. Join me my love"; weirdly Brandon and Yume. Only zombie and doll wise. They have that fucked up Izuru and Servant type of bond

Fai: @rockwgooglyeyes / Cia: @starry-skiez / Murr: @pwippy / Bran: @tsukacchako

[thalasseus]

hands you the ocean

[judgeitbyitscover]

Rare Bird by Maria Mudd Ruth

Cover art by Paul Harris Jones

Mountaineers Book, 2013

Part naturalist detective story, part environmental inquiry, this vibrant narrative celebrates the fascinating world of an endangered seabird that depends on the contested old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest for its survival.

"This chunky little seabird stole my heart." So confesses Maria Mudd Ruth, a veteran nature writer perfectly happy to be a generalist before getting swept up in the strange story of the marbled murrelet. This curiosity of nature, who flies like a little brown bullet at up to 100 miles an hour and lives most of its life offshore, is seen around land only during breeding season, when the female lays a single egg high on a mossy tree limb in the ancient coastal forest.

Ruth traces reports of the bird back to Captain Cook's ill-fated voyage of discovery on the Pacific Ocean in 1778, and explores the mind-set of 19th- and 20th-century naturalists who--despite their best efforts--failed to piece together clues about the whereabouts of the bird's nest. She takes the reader along on adventurous outings to coastal meadows before dawn, and onto the ocean at midnight to learn firsthand how scientists observe nature. She interviews all the major players in the drama: timber company executives and fishing fleet operators whose businesses are threatened by conservation measures, as well as the so-called cowboy scientists who are devoted to saving the marbled murrelet from extinction. And, ultimately, Ruth conveys her curiosity and passion for this rare bird onto the page for readers to savor.

[graveyardrabbit]

Marbled Murrelets make tree nests on large, moss- and lichen-covered branches high (usually over 40 feet) above the ground in mature and old-growth coniferous forest, normally in the largest tree in the area… No actual nest is built. The female lays one egg directly onto a mossy branch or on the ground, in a depressed site where the egg is unlikely to roll away…

painted a marbled murrelet egg

[starskynder]

Guadalupe Murrelet #AvianAugust day 22.

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Guadalupe Murrelet

Photo: Tom Benson

"This small seabird nests on islands off the west coast of Baja, and rarely wanders north into California waters. It was formerly combined with Scripps's Murrelet under the name Xantus's Murrelet. These two are very similar in appearance as well as in habits, but the Guadalupe Murrelet has more white extending up onto the face, around the eye."

- Audubon Field Guide

[keyonsketches]

guadalupe murrelet (synthliboramphus hypoleucus) also known as Xantus's murrelet - by Keyon aka Kirsten Dennis gouache on mixed media paper

Avian August 2023 day 22