#suliformes

[birdblues]

Anhinga

[herpsandbirds]

Anhingas aka American Darters (Anhinga anhinga), L - male and R - female, in breeding plumage, family Anhingidae, order Suliformes, Southeastern U.S.

Also known as the Snake Bird and the Water Turkey.

photograph by Mark Thomas

[fullfrontalbirds]

Nazca Booby (Sula granti)

© Jonah Benningfield

[nightmare-birds]

Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum)

© Simon Tolzmann

[birds--daily]

mayhaps i ask for a sweet little crested cormorant? :>

day 36

today's bird is the double-crested cormorant!

- the insides of their mouths are actually blue!

- cormorants have less preen oil than other birds, so their feathers get wet easier. they often dry them by standing out in the sun with their wings spread (like in my picture :0) )

- double-created cormorants use just about anything to build their nests, including rope, deflated balloons, fishnet, plastic, and parts of dead birds

[snototter]

A white-breasted cormorant (Phalacrocorax lucidus) amongst the weeds in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Leon Oosthuizen

[flight-freeze-frame]

Lesser Frigatebird (Fregata ariel)

© 佑淇 陳

[alonglistofbirds]

[1710/10977] Brown booby - Sula leucogaster

Order: Suliformes Family: Sulidae (gannets and boobys)

Photo credit: Terence Alexander via Macaulay Library

[birds-that-screm]

Christmas Frigatebird (Fregata andrewsi)

© Ting-Wei (廷維) HUNG (洪)

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Most soaring birds rely on thermals-- updrafts of warm wind-- to keep them airborne. However, the great frigatebird doesn't need to use thermals to glide over the ocean! When entering areas without wind, these birds will intentionally fly into clouds, which contain thermals that can elevate them to an altitude of nearly 4 km (13,000 ft)!

(Image: A female great frigatebird (Fregata minor) by Dick Daniels)

Want to request an uncharismatic critter? Just send me proof of donation to any of these vetted fundraisers for Palestinian refugees!

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

Day 8 of Pied Month! Little pied cormorant? More like cormaront!

Reference photo by JJ Harrison

(in the low effort art style because I went to an art exhibition to fill up the creativity tank and had to paint when I got home instead of spending ages on a bird)

I'm on Cara, it's a social media for art that's against AI, follow me @ tbalderdash

[birdblues]

European Shag

[herpsandbirds]

Oriental Darter (Anhinga melanogaster), family Anhingidae, order Suliformes, India

Darters, along with Gannets and Cormorants, were once included in the order Pelicaniformes, but many ornithologists have now separated these bird groups out into the order Suliformes.

photograph by Devadatha Kumar SR

[fullfrontalbirds]

Lesser Frigatebird (Fregata ariel)

© Con-gjie Lin

[nightmare-birds]

Brandt's Cormorant (Urile penicillatus)

© Alan Bloom

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

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