#various birds

[dulledtalons]

Birds in Sekai - 5

Card 203, A New Face Who Looks Good In Red

These birds are (from left to right):

Southern rockhopper penguin, serving a polar bear, Eudyptes chrysocome

King penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus

All penguins belong to the family Spheniscidae, in the order Sphenisciformes.

[dulledtalons]

In the background are the Laysan albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis), family Diomedeidae!

Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster), mother with chick, family Sulidae, order Suliformes, Midway Atoll

photograph by Joe Owen

[tawnysoup]

two new critters just dropped

[foolbehavior]

KDJ sketches

[snailkites]

Walnut the Crane dead at 42

White-naped Crane Walnut and her keeper/husband, Chris Crowe, in 2021. (Photo: Roshan Patel via NZCBI)

Internet sensation Walnut the Crane became ill on January 2, 2024 and passed away at age 42 at her home at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) campus in Front Royal, VA. A necropsy revealed the cause of death to be renal failure. Walnut far outlived the average life expectancy for White-naped Cranes in captivity, which is 15 years. She leaves behind her husband, zookeeper Chris Crowe, with whom she had 8 offspring, including two housed at the NZCBI: daughter Brenda, age 18, and a granddaughter, age 1.

“Walnut was a unique individual with a vivacious personality,” Crowe said. “She was always confident in expressing herself, an eager and excellent dancer, and stoic in the face of life’s challenges. I’ll always be grateful for her bond with me. Walnut’s extraordinary story has helped bring attention to her vulnerable species’ plight.” (x)

White-naped Cranes are native to Mongolia, northeast China and southeast Russia, wintering in the Korean DMZ, Japan, and China. Habitat loss to agriculture, development, and ongoing droughts are factors in their decline, leaving them classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN. Walnut was an important contributor to efforts to restore the species.

Edit: for those unaware, I refer to the zookeeper as her husband because Walnut was imprinted on humans, meaning she considered him her mate and performed displays and courtship for him. As a zookeeper he was responsible for artificially inseminating the bird. This and more was the source of her viral fame.

[cabinette]

Loose comic I made in the middle of the night.... I think John would like a camera!!!

[zondearts]

warmup

[chiropteracupola]

there's no rule saying you can't turn medieval kings into magical girls.

[icarianarts]

Same age

[gingermaple]

what if.... grian was a sphynx?

[dulledtalons]

Birds in Sekai - 2

Card 200, In The Face Of "What I Love"

These birds are (from left to right):

Northern rockhopper penguin, Eudyptes moseleyi

African penguin, Spheniscus demersus

Emperor penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri

Gentoo penguin, Pygoscelis papua

All penguins lie in the family Spheniscidae, in the order Sphenisciformes. Below are images of each penguin species for comparison!

The rockhopper penguin’s usual red eyes have been coloured black instead in the card illustration, probably for added cuteness.

[dulledtalons]

Typos:

The black-headed gull is in the Laridae family, not Sulidae.

The black-browed albatross belongs in the Diomedeidae family, in the order Procellariiformes with other albatrosses.

spare some gulls or albatrosses? I may or may not be a fan of them :3c

AND SO... OUT TO SEA!!!

Black Headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) parent with chicks, family Sulidae, order Charadriiformes, England

photograph by David Wheatley

Sabine’s Gull (Xema sabini), family Laridae, order Charadriiformes, Alaska

photograph by Audubon Alaska

Pallas’s Gull (Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus), family Laridae, order Charadriiformes, India

photograph by Yogesh More

Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris), coming to get you!!!, , Sydney, Australia

photograph by Meysam Makvandi

Buller's Albatross (Thalassarche bulleri), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia

photograph by JJ Harrison

Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria fusca), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, Crozet Island, in the Southern Ocean

photograph by Nweider

[unpretty]

So do you own a chicken now? Or did you find a farm for it?

we snuck her into the coop while all the chickens were sleeping and this morning she got up with the rest of them and they all had breakfast together peacefully, so she seems to have integrated with our existing flock without issue

[interstellarchaosss]

Born in the wrong nest.

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Program: Firealpaca Approx. Time: 5h Original Date: 04.12.23 (Crowley)

[oddthesungod]

blue and green 💙💚

[catboybiologist]

oh dear. it seems that i am a -quickly looks at bio- teeny tiny protozoan unknown to science i hope a beautiful woman studies me and learns my teeny tiny protozoan secrets.

Damn I hope there's a gorgeous protozoa researcher out there to fulfill those wishes bc every model organism I've worked with has been in animalia