#national birds

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Bracket Idea: Battle of the National Birds

[clara-scintilla]

Affection

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[great-and-small]

[jadafitch]

Petit Manan Lighthouse, Petit Manan Island, Steuben. Possibly my favorite lighthouse. In the summer, this island is home to hundreds of birds. Including Atlantic puffins, arctic, common and roseate terns, as well as black guillemots and many more. Decided I couldn't draw them all, but here's a couple attempts to try and capture the island's vibes. Can you spot the oystercatchers? MERCH

[starwrighter]

Ghost chirps au but instead of the cute little bird songs and peeps it’s just-

“CAW”

Like a giant crow or flock of crows if there’s more than one ghost. Danny being able to gather all of Gotham’s crows, as a giant army because he sounds like them.

Crows: Who tf are you

Danny: CAW

Crows: Say less homie

He’s named every last one of them and has trained them all to pick locks and steal. He’s respected by the crows because he’s the only one with dexterous hands. If they can’t open something they call in the big guns (AKA Danny) Like imagine being a Gothamite and watching a enormous flock of crows seemingly summoning a scrawny child out nowhere to unlock a dumpster? Like they’re crowding around him like he’s the messiah, a god even and they all just squawk in unison when the kid pulls out a bobby pin and picks the padlock. They’re dropping, coins, bottle caps, earrings, bullet shells, anything vaguely shiny and the occasional paper money into his hands.

The kid has a necklace of soda tabs and bottle cap earrings. He also just walks around collecting beer bottles and later sells little glass statues that have a bioluminescent glow (HC that Danny can melt and shape glass with weaker ecto blasts) Glowing glass jewelry is weaved into his hair that is seemingly a identity confirmation for the crows.

Nobody knows the kids name he just showed up one day with his massive army of crows and started to wander. After around a month of the kid wandering around without a care in the world and not dying the locals decide “Huh, I guess crow prince is here to stay,” Like, they accept him as a local cryptid.

Like “Yeah, crow king just kind of vibes but if you give him food, he’ll bash in a pedophiles kneecaps,”

Shit goes down When Danny discovers his chirps can also sound like geese.

[ambermaitrejean]

August in Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Commerce City, Colorado. Photos by Amber Maitrejean

[josharlington]

Owl finch!

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Close up of a male Violetcrowned Woodnymph hummingbird (Thalurania columbica) taken at the Tienda las Rosas near the El Dorado Lodge in the Santa Marta Mountains of Colombia.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ANAND VARMA

[baebeylik]

The White Drake. Joseph Crawhall. Scottish. 1895.

National Galleries of Scotland.

[sightsseenandviewsviewed]

Pair of Common Ravens (Corvus corax) with newborn chicks

May 4th, 2023 - Maligne Canyon, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

[michaelnordeman]

Willow Ptarmigan/dalripa. Sonfjället National Park in Härjedalen, Sweden (September 2, 2019).

[great-and-small]

[montereybayaquarium]

From our feathery fronds and the rest of us at the Aquarium, we wish you an unbelievably  wonderful National Bird Day!! 💙🐦✨

This is a perfect time to soar into birdwatching in your local neighborhood or flock to our website and Aviary Cam to learn about the winged wildlife whose protection is so important for our planet!

[riverwindphotography]

I visited with this friendly Raven for awhile near the Snake River overlook.

(c) riverwindphotography, February 2024