#raptor

[vcreatures]

Harpies are avian scavengers found across partly forested areas, deserts, grasslands and shorelines. These large buzzards are a vital part of the ecosystem acting as the natural cleaning crew of their territory, cleaning away carcasses and as such keeping disease low. Their ironclad stomachs are capable of eating rotting flesh and even bone.

Males and females are dimorphic, with males possessing a bony crest, longer plumes and colored facial skin. While both sexes possess the impressive mammary like wattle, males are able to inflate theirs as part of their courting display. Which originally caused early explorers to believe these avian beasts possessed human breasts.

Harpies are monogamous and will rear up to 3 chicks in a single breeding season. Often in large necks high in the canopy or along cliff sides. 

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[herpsandbirds]

favorite vulture or scavenger?

My favorite scavengers are actually not vultures!!!

Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, Laguna Seca Ranch, Linn, TX, USA

Photograph by Wayne Williams

Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, Texas, USA

Photograph by Denise Johnson (@denisejohnsonphotography)

Crested Caracaras (Caracara plancus) working out perch arrangement, family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, South TX, USA

photograph by Wayne Williams

[sketchy-as-fork]

The Missing Hikers

Inspired by John Brosio‘s art and a recent trip to Ladybower

[quinnred]

Ghost of the Tall Wheat A piece done for the Farm Haven section of the art zine "Visions Unveiled" published by BobTheSeagullKing in collaboration with Logan/Tachyon , CrabdominalPain , and Luke Baker.

Poem Below:

“Never go into the wheat. The ghost will nibble your feet! But, you say, “I heard mother cry!” Don't go in, for it’s a lie!

They eat the children, they do, they do! They mock your tears, boo hoo, boo hoo!

Listen to me for I tell the truth.

Or suffer greatly from a single hooked tooth!

Oh no, no no, they will not end you fast

for their hungry maws want you to last!

They eat the children, they do, they do! They mock your tears, boo hoo, boo hoo!

Go ahead and ignore my warning,

You’ll be but ribbons before the morning!

All it takes is a few seconds 

to succumb to the devil that mournfully beckons! 

They eat the children, they do, they do! They mock your tears, boo hoo, boo hoo!”

- The Rhyme of the Mocker

[yourfavouritecharactersasdragons]

could you make two from tpot pls?

[rafefar]

Male Northern Harrier in flight

Sauvie Island, Oregon

[seafooms]

blue footed booby + raptor !

[tertiadecimapostolus]

[herd-reject-arts]

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

[juleteon]

you missed.

[soulsplosion]

thinkin about dinosaurs today

[wobblyworks]

Deinonychus Takedown for animation practice

[herpsandbirds]

Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) mother with chicks, family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, Germany

photograph by Patrick Hofmann

[kavdragun]

Many boys desire a big dinosaur GF, but others have even bigger ambitions!

Let there be more dino women!

[psie-smutki]

The Mob 🪶

[maureen2musings]

Unexpected dream shot, Boundary Bay

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