#victoria crested pigeon

[tasty-patches]

Victoria crowned pigeon at the St. Louis Zoo

Nikon D850, Nikkor 105mm D

[far-side-skies]

Aaah she looks amazing! It was really cool to see her come together!

"To what do I owe this rare vist, little cousin?"

Here's my entry for this months bird! @far-side-skies

Victoria "Tori" Stormis, one of the many results of Cyclonian's arranged marriages with other royal families in the region. Not having the honor curse of being heir to the throne, Victoria is sent to Cyclonia at the age of sixteen to start training to be the personal body guard of her younger cousins. Though, the connection is kept in the dark from most. She shares a close relationship with Princess Sansa, but her relationship with the empress of the terra is partly strained for reasons she can only make assumptions about or not know at all.

By the time the events of the show start to begin, Victoria is fully equipt and ready to take whatever measures she must in order to protect the royal family. Some even daring to whisper that she's nearly on par with the Terra's champion. I hope you like her! She was funny to draw.

[proton-wobbler]

Battle Royale: Finale

Family Reunion (C-7)

The winners of our Family Reunion bracket are coming together now to duke it out one final time!

[na-bird-of-the-day]

As promised, here are some photos from the national aviary in Pittsburgh! Saw lots of wonderful birds there.

I also took a boat tour up in Maine and saw lots of Atlantic puffins! I also saw some razorbills, common eiders, common loons, Wilson's storm-petrels, an Arctic tern, and a black guillemot. And plenty of gulls of course!

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Some Brown Sparrows

Bruce Fearing

Some brown sparrows who live

in the Bronx Zoo visit often

the captive Victoria Crested

Pheasant, visit captive Peacocks,

Cockatoos. They fly through bars

to visit also monkeys, jackals,

bears. They delouse themselves in

cage dust, shaking joyously;

they hunt for bread crumbs, seeds

or other tidbits. Briefly,

they lead free sparrow lives

and fly free.

"Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... And Other Modern Verse" - compiled by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders, and Hugh Smith

[far-side-skies]

Aaaah she looks lovely! Although knowing what she’s capable of, she terrifies me.

Welp...I'm on a trip without my markers...so I can't color my entry for this month.

Honestly completely blipped the dates and thought I'd have time after my trip oh well.

Meet Victoria Crown

28 years old

Anthropological researcher, specializing in ancient magic and rituals.

Happily works with cyclonia as they fund her research without question. Victoria enjoys attempting to recreate some of the magic rituals she finds evidence of in order to better understand them and the people who performed them.

She is not afraid of recreating any ritual even those that are considered dark or immoral. Everything is fair game for the sake of knowledge.

She gets along well and is good friends with Scrīc.

@far-side-skies

[todaysbird]

heyo I saw someone else post from Victoria, Australia and realised I can also do that lol

here's some crested pigeons, which are my favourite native bird here - they almost always hang out in pairs and look like little pickaxes when they peck stuff on the ground.

also have a bonus bad photo of a mysterious parrot I didn't recognise (same location)

thank you!! the parrot is hard to see but it looks similar to an orange bellied parrot…however those are critically endangered so pretty sure it’s just a similar species

[critter-captures]

Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria), family Columbidae (doves and pigeons)

One of several species of crowned pigeon, the Victoria crowned pigeon is easily recognized by the white tips on its crest. Of the crowned pigeons, it is also the most popularly kept in captivity.

Avifauna, taken July 2024

[biggestlen]

victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria) -- @columbiforme-detector

omg!!! Yayyy pigeon in my inbox!!!!!

they are Large and do not fear visitors!!/ref

They're such majestic and gorgeous pigeonssss they're so cool!!!! Very fancy headdress-like crests and baby victoria crowned pigeons look so unbelievably silly!!

so cute (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠) I love pigeons sm

[battle-of-the-birds]

Alrighty and HERE ARE OUR CONTENDERS!!!

Tag for the polls: #bird battle

DISCLAIMER - I wrote the round one blurbs when I was very sick and half awake, so if you see any mistakes PLEASE TELL ME! Nicely, obviously, but I want to make sure they sound good for round 2. Thank you!

I know there’s a lot of them, but man there’s SO MANY GOOD BIRDS! There were a few times where people didn’t put what specific subspecies for some birds, so sometimes I’d have to choose one. I tried to choose one that represents that bird the best!

I don’t know when the polls will begin, I’m doing some research on the birds so that people can read about them before they vote.

If one of your favs didn’t make it in, don’t worry they’re a winner in my and your heart.

If you are wondering where the Pigeon (Rock Dove) is, THEY ARE THE FINAL CHAMPION! At the end of this bracket, the winner will face off against the mightily popular Rock Dove! Will they be able to beat such a tough challenger? We will see…

Also, a note on how I set this bracket up: I put all the birds in a numbered list and then used a number generator. I think the matchups we got were really interesting.

Full list under the cut

HARPY EAGLE

SUPERB BIRD OF PARADISE

VAMPIRE FINCH

RAINBOW LORIKEET

BALTIMORE ORIOLE

EURASIAN WREN

STELLER'S JAY

CALIFORNIA CONDOR

EURASIAN HOOPOE

BLACK CAPPED CHICKADEE

TAWNY FROGMOUTH

AMERICAN GOLDFINCH

ANDEAN COCK OF THE ROCK

MUTE SWAN

WESTERN SANDPIPER

STELLER'S SEA EAGLE

VIOLET BACKED STARLING

HOATZIN

HOUSE SPARROW

HERACLES

CANADIAN GOOSE

DODO

GREAT EARED NIGHTJAR

SANDHILL CRANE

PELAGORNIS

SUPERB FAIRY WREN

SOUTHERN CASSOWARY

AMERICAN ROBIN

GREATER ROADRUNNER

GREAT BLUE HERON

AMERICAN AVOCET

PASSENGER PIGEON

WALLCREEPER

GREAT TIT

MOA

EASTERN BLUEBIRD

AUSTRALIAN BUSHTURKEY

EMU

MALLARD DUCK

FLAME BOWERBIRD

MANDARIN DUCK

BELTED KINGFISHER

OILBIRD

FAIRY PENGUIN

LESSER FLAMINGO

AUSTRALIAN KESTREL

CARRION CROW

UMBRELLABIRD

LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE

PERUVIAN PELICAN

CALIFORNIA QUAIL

MACGREGORS BOWERBIRD

HARRIS HAWK

COMMON RAVEN

BEARDED VULTURE

PEREGRINE FALCON

ROSY LOVEBIRD

ROSEATTE SPOONBILL

LONG TAILED GRACKLE

AMERICAN WOODCOCK

KAKAPO

BLUE FOOTED BOOBY

RHEA

BEE HUMMINGBIRD

WHITE WAGTAIL

HUIA

SNAIL KITE

DOMESTIC CHICKEN

KIWI

MOURNING DOVE

ATLANTIC PUFFIN

CARDINAL

LYREBIRD

EUROPEAN ROBIN

BURROWING OWL

OSPREY

RED TAILED HAWK

BLEEDING HEART DOVE

BARN OWL

PEACOCK

SATIN BOWERBIRD

CAIQUE

RED WINGED BLACKBIRD

LONG TAILED TIT

HERRING GULL

GREEN HERON

CREAM COLORED WOODPECKER

AUSTRALIAN IBIS

TRISTAM'S STARLING

POTOO

WANDERING ALBATROSS

BLUE JAY

KEA

COMMON MYNA

RAINBOW TOUCAN

GREATER SAGE GROUSE

TURKEY VULTURE

TUFTED TITMOUSE

CRESTED AUKLET

EURASIAN MAGPIE

BUDGIE

SCREECH OWL

WIP-POOR-WILL

SECRETARY BIRD

AUSTRALIAN MAGPIE

CEDAR WAXWING

VICTORIA CROWNED PIGEON

HERMIT THRUSH

COMMON SWIFT

WHITE BELLBIRD

BROWN SKUA

EUROPEAN DIPPER

[columbidaecontest]

[ID: two photos of blue pigeons with purple chests, white patches on their wings, and a large, elaborate crest on their heads, standing in trees. the first is the Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon, perched ojn a branch. the second, the Victoria crowned pigeon, has white tips to its crest.]

[doveghost]

What kinds of doves should I look at for character inspo?

If you're looking for something colorful, I'd suggest types of green pigeons or fruit doves. Some cool ones are Cinnamon headed green pigeons, little green pigeons, yellow footed green pigeons, thick billed green pigeons, jambu fruit doves, spotted fruit doves, wompoo fruit doves, and yellow breasted fruit doves. Nicobar pigeons, Victoria crowned pigeons, and bronzewings are also cool. So are white breasted ground doves, cinnamon ground doves, and Lemon doves, as well as most types of imperial pigeons

If you want something with more neutral colors, I'd suggest banded fruit doves, namaqua doves, Silvery pigeons, Squatter pigeons, snow pigeons, Scaled pigeons, Christmas imperial pigeons, Zebra piegons, Crested pigeons, and topknot pigeons

Sorry I couldn't list more

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

List of Birds organized by Order + locations:

Accipitriformes:

Bearded vulture

Cooper's hawk

Osprey

Red-shouldered hawk

Steller's sea eagle

Anseriformes:

Bar-headed goose

Barnacle goose

Black swan

Common merganser

Red-breasted goose

Snow goose

Trumpeter swan

Apodiformes:

Common swift

Ruby-throated hummingbird

Bucerotiformes:

Eurasian hoopoe

Cariamiformes:

Red-legged seriema

Casuariiformes:

Emu

Southern cassowary

Cathartiformes:

Black vulture

Turkey vulture

Charadriiformes:

American oystercatcher

Atlantic puffin

Black-headed gull

Black skimmer

Black-tailed godwit

European herring gull

Killdeer

Northern lapwing

Ruddy turnstone

Ciconiiformes:

White stork

Columbiformes:

Common wood pigeon

Eurasian collared dove

Luzon bleeding-heart

Nicobar pigeon

Victoria crowned pigeon

Coraciiformes:

Blue-capped kingfisher

Common kingfisher

Cuculiformes:

Asian koel

Greater roadrunner

Yellow-billed cuckoo

Eurypygiformes:

Kagu

Falconiformes:

American kestrel

Common kestrel

Galliformes:

Palawan peacock-pheasant

Scaled quail

Western capercaillie

Gaviiformes:

Common loon

Gruiformes:

American coot

Australasian swamphen/pūkeko

Blue crane

Common moorhen

Sandhill crane

Sora

Whooping crane

Passeriformes:

American bushtit

American robin

Australian raven

Baltimore oriole

Barn swallow

Black-billed magpie

Black-capped chickadee

Black-throated sparrow

Blue-headed vireo

Blue jay

Bluethroat

Brown thrasher

California towhee

Canada warbler

Canyon wren

Cedar waxwing

Common blackbird

Common chlorospingus

Common raven

Eastern wood pewee

Eurasian blue tit

Eurasian bullfinch

Eurasian golden oriole

Eurasian jay

Eurasian magpie

European robin

Goldcrest

Great-tailed grackle

Great tit

Hooded crow

House sparrow

Indigo bunting

Kirtland's warbler

LeConte's sparrow

Long-tailed tit

Mexican jay

Painted bunting

Phainopepla

Pine siskin

Pin-tailed whydah

Pinyon jay

Pygmy nuthatch

Red winged blackbird

Rook

Saltmarsh sparrow

Satin bowerbird

Spotted towhee

Steller's jay

Tufted titmouse

Wallcreeper

Warbling vireo

Western tanager

White-breasted nuthatch

White-throated dipper

White-throated magpie-jay

Yellow-rumped warbler

Pelecaniformes:

Brown pelican

Great blue heron

Great egret

Great white pelican

Least bittern

Roseate spoonbill

Shoebill stork

Snowy egret

Phoenicopteriformes:

American flamingo

Chilean flamingo

Piciformes:

Acorn woodpecker

Clark's nutcracker

Lewis's woodpecker

Northern flicker

Pileated woodpecker

Red-bellied woodpecker

Red-headed woodpecker

Podargiformes:

Tawny frogmouth

Podicipediformes:

Pied-billed grebe

Procellariiformes:

Wilson's storm-petrel

Psittaciformes:

Australian king parrot

Chestnut-fronted macaw

Citron-crested cockatoo

Cockatiel

Galah

Gang-gang cockatoo

Pacific parrotlet

Rose-ringed parakeet

Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Strigiformes:

Barn owl

Barred owl

Eurasian eagle-owl

Suliformes:

Anhinga

Blue-footed booby

Double-crested cormorant

Trogoniformes:

Elegant trogon

Locations:

Africa

America

Antarctica

Asia

Australia

Central America

Eurasia

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America

[bloopdydooooo]

Behold, victoria crowned-pidgeon upon ye

a beauty!!!!! a stunner!!!!!!!!!! thank you so much for the birds <33

here are some of my precious geotrygons, in return, though i realize they are less of an exciting gift to you than to me.

tadaa!!!

[Image ID: the first picture is of a victoria crowned pigeon with a band on one foot. the second is of a violaceous quail-dove, the third is a crested quail-dove, and the fourth is a purple quail-dove. the fifth image is of two white dancing girls flowers. the sixth is a large red corpse flower. /End ID]

[far-side-skies]

Storm Hawks Bird OC Challenge - July 2023

Hey all! Welcome to the next bird challenge! This month we're looking at the Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria). I was actually torn between this and another bird right until the last minute, but this one won out because I discovered it first and have actually seen it in person at London Zoo. The other bird can get the spotlight next month.

Image from Wikipedia.

Named after the British monarch Queen Victoria, the Victoria crowned pigeon is known for its distinct white-tipped crest and the 'whooping' sounds it makes during the mating season. Its habitat is located in the lowland swamp forests of New Guinea, and they often travel in pairs or groups of three together.

The deadline this month is Wednesday the 26th of July. As always, rules and an optional colour palette can be found under the cut.

Minimum requirements for drawn entries to be put in the winner’s vote are a name, occupation, the character’s home/birth Terra and at least one paragraph (or about 100 words) of written backstory.

Minimum requirements for written (i.e. written dossiers without art, or mini-fics for the character) are 500 words including backstory and appearance. Feel free to make a mini-fic out of this challenge, I’ll make sure to link it with the final collage as well.

Entrants who are part of the Storm Hawks discord server will have the chance of getting a custom role for the next month! If you’re not part of the discord server, please ask for an invite if you’re interested.

You’re not expected to create a character from scratch for this challenge. If you’ve got an older character concept that’s been collecting dust or that you’d like to take the opportunity to revamp, feel free! The goal of this challenge is to inspire people.

Collaborations are allowed! Same rules apply, the only addition is that you and your partner(s) just need to make note of who was responsible for what part of the character

Make sure to tag me in your entries and also DM me with a link to your entry. Tumblr is not always reliable about notifications for this sort of thing, and I don’t want to risk missing anyone’s entries, so better safe than sorry.

The group collage of entries, and the winner’s vote are opt-in. Participation of those parts of this challenge are not mandatory.

The winner of the vote will receive a free sketch piece of their character from me.

[archive-of-artprompts]

🦚Send in a number + Character and I'll draw them in an outfit based on that bird🦚

Allen's Hummingbird

African Crowned Crane

African Emerald Cuckoo

American Goldfinch

Anna's Hummingbird

Asian Emerald Cuckoo

Asian Koel

Atlantic Puffin

Azure Kingfisher

Bald Eagle

Barn Owl

Barn Swallow

Barred Owl

Bat Falcon

Bearded Vulture

Bee Hummingbird

Black Swan

Blue-And-Yellow Macaw

Blue Crowned Pigeon

Blue-Footed Booby

Blue Jay

Bohemian Waxwing

Brahma Chicken

Broad-Billed Hummingbird

Bronze Fallow Cockatie

Canadian Goose

Cassowary

Cardinal

Common Raven

Coua

Dusky Lory

Diederik Cuckoo

Eastern Brown Pelican

Egret

Emerald Starling

Emperor Penguin

Emu

Eurasian Hoopoe

Eurasian Magpie

European Starling

European Turtle Dove

Flamingo

Frigatebird

Fruit Dove

Galah

Gambel's Quail

Golden-Breasted Starling

Golden Pheasant

Gouldian Finch

Grandala

Great Hornbill

Great Horned Owl

Greater Blue-Eared Starling

Green-Legged Partridge

Gurney’s Pitta

Hawaiian Honeycreepers

Hoatzin

Hooded Crow

Horned Sungem

Hyacinth Macaw

Kadaknath

Kakapo

Keel-Billed Toucan

Lilac-Breasted Roller

Long Tailed Tit

Luzon Bleeding-Heart Dove

Mandarin Duck

Mountain Bluebird

Montezuma quail

Mute Swan

Nicobar Pigeon

Northern Oriole

Painted Bunting

Paradise Tanager

Peafowl (peacock/peahen)

Peregrine Falcon

Pileated Woodpecker

Pink Cockatoo

Rainbow Lorikeet

Red Crested Turaco

Red-Necked Tanager

Resplendent Quetzal

Ribbon-Tailed Astrapia

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Scarlet Macaw

Secretary Bird

Snowy Owl

Stork-Billed Kingfisher

Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo

Superb Bird-Of-Paradise

Superb Starling

Victoria Crowned Pigeon

Violetear

Violet-Backed Starling

Violet-Green Swallow

Wood Duck

Wilson's Bird-Of-Paradise

Yellow-Crowned Woodpecker

Yellow-Faced Myna

Zanzibar Red Bishop