#raptor

[herpsandbirds]

Bateleur Eagle (Terathopius ecaudatus), family Accipitridae, Chobe, Botswana

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Nick Dale

[raptorplatter]

Oh boy, my 2nd favorite dino! Speaking of which…: https://www.deviantart.com/jd-man/journal/SD-More-of-my-favorite-eudromaeosaur-artworks-1105931597

Autumnal-coloured Velociraptors exploring the leaf litter, looking for bugs and frogs.

These handmade plushies are available on my website www.palaeoplushies.com

[malkshake]

Raptor Bluey remake ✨

Available as stickers and other goodies in redbubble (black and white version) and teepublic

[seafooms]

blue footed booby + raptor !

[tertiadecimapostolus]

[supplyside]

Raptor squadron

[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]

White-bellied Goshawk (Tachyspiza haplochroa), family Accipitridae, family Accipitriformes, endemic to New Caledonia

photograph by Dubi Shapiro

[maureen2musings]

Unexpected dream shot, Boundary Bay

yurichoufour

[wayward-delver]

Creature of the Night: 

“Feathered Dinosaurs aren’t scary,” is false, it’s about how it is presented and nothing is more terrifying than a bitter truth. 

by Jayson Duria/WobblyWorks

[cenospire]

A very curious Pyroraptor spots something interesting (a cycad seed) on the forest floor, and is just...tickled pink by it for some reason.

[seafooms]

fox themed utah for a friend :3 what she lookin at i wonder

[zfotos]

a special encounter I had with a saw-whet owl