#racket tail

[herpsandbirds]

Peruvian Racket-tail (Ocreatus peruanus), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Ecuador

Some ornithologists consider the Peruvian Racket-tail to be a subspecies ofthe Booted Racket-tail, O. underoodii.

photograph by James Gan

[fromtraveldiaries]

Greater racket-tailed drongo, Nagarahole national park, March, 2023

[lowcountry-gothic]

Booted racket-tail hummingbird (Ocreatus underwoodii) in Ecuador. Photo by Nicolas Reusens.

[wayti-blog]

The Peruvian racket-tail (Ocreatus peruanus)

A species of hummingbird in the "brilliants", tribe Heliantheini in subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru (x).

[psikonauti]

Booted Racket-tail

[wingedjewels]

Peruvian-booted Racket-tail.jpg by Leon Burda Via Flickr: Peruvian-booted Racket-tail

[drawbauchery]

I drew more kitties

MORE KITTIESSS!?!?

[mochibiscuit]

Left-hand-training journal entry #8: Not a Wikipedia article this time, but a webpage from American Bird Conservancy about booted racket tails

[subparpicturesofbirds]

thats one hell of a fluffy boy

[colorsoutofearth]

Hummingbirds by Rolf Nussbaumer

Top: Booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus spp.) and Green-Crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica)

Middle: Buff-bellied Hummingbird (Amazilia yucatanenensis)

Bottom: Red-billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus)

[herpsandbirds]

Peruvian Racket-tail (Ocreatus peruanus), male, family Trochilidae, Peru

photograph by Jeyaramsankar Gurusamy

[tinyowlthoughts]

THE BIRBS ARE HERE

Find someone who looks at you like this feral rock pigeon looks at her beau (his beau? How does one sex a feral rock pigeon?)

Hat.

"You do this every time! If you want some, order it yourself, stop eating off my plate!"

MOTHER. FUCKING. CASSOWARY.

Humanity is lucky the emu's didn't call for back up. If they'd gotten the cassowary special forces involved, Australia would belong to the birds.

Fun fact: owls can't roll their eyes in exasperation. Their eyes are mostly fixed in place in the orbital socket, that's why their heads turn so far! Also why so many get hit by cars - see a mouse, swoop down for mouse, can't see the vehicle coming at them because their focus is totally on the food.

When volunteering at the wildlife rehab center, I got to help weigh a Great Horned Owl. He was wrapped up in a towel, and then we put him in a Quaker Oats tube to keep him still on the scale. Big motherfucker - HUGE talons. He survived and was released a couple months later, I'm pretty sure.

(Plug: donate to your local wildlife rehab centers! They're almost always non-profit and do great work, and if you don't mind scooping poop or scrubbing cages, they usually have volunteer opportunities!!!)

Mom. Mom. MOM. MOM! MOMMA! MOMMA! MOMMY!

NGL, thought the snow was a cloud and we were finally getting a proper kaiju event.

(I don't know why I did this - I just saw birds and got excited and had to share. BIRBS!)

(Photos belong to Macaulay Library Archive & respective photographers!)

[sophisticatedchaoss]

crawling out the other end of a month inactivity with media i have a love-hate relationship with (do not ever look at the media tag)

[arulia108]

Day 25

[therianuserboxes]

Can you do a racket tail hummingbird with green outside/inside and white text?? also a blue jay wirh blue inside/outside and white text? and finally a panther with black inside/outside and grey or white text? <3 tyyyyyyyy

[proton-wobbler]

Racket-tailed Roller (Coracias spatulatus)

"Cutie! Love his tail plumes"

Found in Southeast Africa, this roller is similar to other members of its genus in most manners. They hunt from perches, swooping down to grab invertebrates before returning to their perch to watch anew. They nest in cavities, often created by woodpeckers or barbets. The defining feature of this species is their tail, sporting two club-like plumes that extend past their typical tail feathers.

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Image Source: eBird (Nige Hartley)