#wydah

[herpsandbirds]

Do you perchance have birds with reaally long tails?

Do I have just the thing(s) for you!

Long-tailed Paradise Whydah (Vidua paradisaea), male, family Viduidae, order Passeriformes, southern Africa

photograph by Dajan Chiou

Pin-tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura), male, family Viduidae, found in most of Sub-Saharan Africa

photograph by Annemarie Davis

Pin-tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura), male, family Viduidae, order Passeriformes, Londolozi Private Game Reserve, South Africa

photograph by New Jersey Birds

AND ALSO...

Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno), male, family Trogonidae, order Trogoniformes, Costa Rica

photograph by Sreejith Sreedharan

Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno), male returns home with a TASTY LIZARD!!!, family Trogonidae, order Trogoniformes, Guatemala

photograph by Andres Novales Wildlife

Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno), male, family Trogonidae, order Trogoniformes, Costa Rica

photograph by @rainforest_photo_tours

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As I get back into One Piece art, it's probably a good time for this pic of Wydah, my Chain Catshark Fishwoman OC. This is actually a variant on the original picture, which is a full nude request available on my N(t)oo Saucy For Work blog.

Still had fun recreating her outfit and building on the old patterns i used and really enjoyed doing her markings.

[gorojji]

[starskynder]

Pin-tailed Wydah #inktober day 8.

[myflagmeanshi]

Together with a bunch of amazing people over on Twitter we made a zine to celebrate the day!!

Zine

Assembly instructions, if you print

[muspeccoll]

ARRR! Talk Like Pirate Day is September 19!

Bringing Her Yards Aportland, Tackles to the Gooseneck of the Tiller, Sheer Off, Running His Guns, Setting Fire to the Powder, Raising Their Metal, Bringing Her on the Careen.

These are terms most of us do not hear very often, or are unfamiliar with, but to ship’s captains and crew during the Age of Sail, all of these were well understood.

Acts of piracy on the high seas had been common from the time people first took to the sea, but for most of us today, the word Pirate conjures up images of 18th-century buccaneers made popular in art, books, and movies. Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, Captain William Kidd, Stede Bonnet, Anne Bonny, “Calico Jack” Rackham, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy are just a few of the men and women who “Went on the Account,” that is, turned to piracy.

This book, The Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates, Their Trials and Executions, published by Ezra Strong in 1839, describes the lives and careers of many of these pirate captains in colorful detail.

Perhaps the following speech, included in this book, (pages 129 and 130) and attributed to pirate Captain “Black Sam” Bellamy, gives us an insight into the reason why so many seafaring men, during the Age of Sail, chose to became pirates. Captain Bellamy, commanding the Wydah Galley, captured and plundered a sloop commanded by a Captain Beer while cruising off Rhode Island in late February of 1717. Captain Bellamy to Captain Beer:

I am sorry they [Bellamy’s crew] won’t let you have your sloop again, for I scorn to do any one a mischief when it is not for my advantage; - the sloop, we must sink her, and she might be of use to you. Though you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security; for the cowardly whelps have not the courage otherwise to defend what they get by knavery; but-ye altogether:-them for a pack of crafty rascals, and you, who serve them, for a parcel of hen-hearted numskulls. They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference, they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage. Had you not better make one of us, than sneak after these villains of employment?

Captain Beer rejected throwing in with the pirates.

[laceratedlamiaceae]

5) "Things you didn't say at all" with BellHands :3

(send me a ship and one of these and i'll write a mini fic)

so this one got longer and angstier than I intended but you can kind of see where the happy ending would be if I could be bothered to actually write it

"I love you." The words were on Sam's mind the morning he left, watching Izzy's slumbering form as the sunlight streamed through the curtains in their room. He almost said them, should have said them, but he didn't. Neither of them were the sort to speak something like that out loud. (which was one of the many reasons Sam was thinking it in the first place) Instead, he gathered his clothes and dressed for the day. By the time he'd shrugged on his coat, Izzy was beginning to stir. "Good morning," Sam said softly. Izzy just groaned and pulled Sam's pillow over his head. Sam chuckled softly. "It's almost noon. Won't your captain notice if you aren't back by then?" "He's old and senile," Izzy mumbled into the pillow. "He wouldn't notice if I were dead." "You won't have to put up with him too much longer," Sam promised. "Once I get my own ship, you'll be my first mate and we'll be--" "--the most notorious pirates on the seven seas," Izzy finished for him, "yes, I know. You say it every fucking day" "And I mean it every fucking day," Sam said, smiling. He glanced at his pocketwatch, frowning at the time. He sighed. "I have to go. You're due in Trinidad three weeks from today, correct?" "If the fucking crew actually gets their shit together," Izzy grunted, finally sitting up. He looked like an angel with the sun shining on his mussed hair and the bags under his eyes. "Then I'll see you then," Sam said, taking one last look before sweeping out the door as dramatically as he could, just to give Izzy something to look at. Sam did not see Izzy then, nor did he for the next two decades. He'd obtained the Wydah on the very trip he took after that last time he'd seen Izzy, though he'd had to miss their reunion on Trinidad to do so. Their schedules had prevented them from meeting for the next while, though he'd heard of Izzy's exploits and he tried to make sure Izzy would hear of his, and in the meantime he was determined to become the best captain the world had ever seen--one who would be worthy of having Izzy Hands as a first mate and a lover. Instead, he lost his ship and his crew in a storm, and he only barely survived himself. Rumors of his death spread far and wide, and by the time he'd recovered enough to return to the world he'd learned that Izzy had thrown his lot in with Blackbeard. He would spend the better part of the next twenty years determined to best Blackbeard and win Izzy back, and every single day was filled with regret for not telling Izzy he loved him when he had the chance.

[inaris-mage-of-storms]

Pirate Zombie Cleo times 2?!? Pirate Cleo in the empires crossover and Cleo on Pirates SMP? Fuck yeah! (Feel free to info dump about pirates and privateers.)

Yeah!!! And she was a pirate in season 6 of Hermitcraft! (I haven't watched her POV yet but it's near the top of my list after Scar.) Cleo is already one of my top favorite Hermits and pirate Cleo especially has me weak in the knees. I am absolutely not going to be normal on the 30th.

Oh man, so many fun things I could talk about! Like the entirety of the legends about my favorite pirate Gráinne Ní Mháille / Grace O'Malley. She's so sassy in most of them! Her second marriage was a year-long trial marriage, and at the end of it she waited until he was out, changed the locks to his castle, and told him it was over from the battlements when he got home. Or there's Samuel Bellamy, who in his very short piratical career - only about a year - became the richest pirate in recorded history and had a reputation for being merciful. The wreckage of his ship the Whydah Gally is still being explored and excavated today! One of these days I would love to visit the Wydah Pirate Museum in Massachusetts. :D

[sternenreh]

Pin-tailed Wydah

Another upload today with the Pin-tailed Wydah. Nearly uploaded all of the first weeks drawings <3

Posted using PostyBirb

[system-of-a-feather]

Joining with

Smew

Silver Pheasant

Pin-tiled Wydah

Eastern Paradise Wydah

Long-tailed Duck

Very Well-known Mandarin Duck

Snowy Egret

Bird of Paradise - these birds were sold without their feet several years ago as "angels" and thus how they got their name

Harpy Eagle

Bone Vulture

Secretary Bird

And for some bonus, a few punk rock birds

Red-breasted Merganser

Common Merganser

lahore pigeons are some of the most visually appealing birds out there. like in terms of visual design. very minimalist, good contrast.

[herpsandbirds]

Pin-tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura), male, family Viduidae, order Passeriformes, found in most of Sub-Saharan Africa

photograph by Alex Han (@alexhan_wildlife)

[tehuti88-art]

10/8/23: r/SketchDaily theme, "Birdtober: Pin-Tailed Wydah." Drawlloween theme, Oct. 8: "Dress To Digest."

[Dress To Digest [‎Sunday, ‎October ‎8, ‎2023, ‏‎5:30:09 AM]]

[wirecat]

Saoirse and and the shit she has to work with 🔪

[capeblogger]

The Long Tailed Wydah Bird

The Long Tailed Wydah Bird

Regrettably I can’t give credit to the photographer; pic  of pin-tailed wydah  sourced  off the web. He’s back. Perching on the neighbour’s TV aerial, returning to catch his breath, after performing one of his complicated aerial dance routines, displaying his long ribbon of a tail in the most enticing way he knows how. I watch him while I eat  breakfast. My high bar-stool chair gives me a…

[castametric]

you know who I fuckin miss.........black sam bellamy. went into piracy (a cool and awesome occupation) so that he could make money for the love of his life (a good and noble reason). double crossed henry jennings with his BFF paulgrave williams and made him look like a fucking idiot (deservedly so). never hurt an innocent person. the robin hood of the seas. stole the wydah gally after firing one single shot like a BAMF do yall realize that thats like if the rebel alliance just like. stole a star destroyer. with one blaster bolt. and stuck their own flag on it and sailed around in it?? gave the epicest speech of all time about how the rich rob the poor under cover of the law, but the pirates steal from them under the protection of their own courage. honestly an icon. he deserved to retire after getting ludicrously rich and move off to the country with mary and live happily ever after.

[blueiscoool]

Ancient Coins Found in New England Orchard Linked to 1600s Pirate Mystery

A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in the US state of Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve a centuries-old cold case.

The villain in this tale: a murderous English pirate who became the world’s most-wanted criminal after plundering a ship carrying Muslim pilgrims home to India from Mecca, then eluded capture by posing as a slave trader.

Jim Bailey, an amateur historian and metal detectorist, found the first intact 17th-century Arabian coin in a meadow in Middletown.

That ancient pocket change – the oldest ever found in North America – could explain how pirate Capt Henry Every vanished.

On 7 September 1695, the pirate ship Fancy, commanded by Every, ambushed and captured the Ganj-i-Sawai, a royal vessel owned by the Indian emperor Aurangzeb, then one of the world’s most powerful men. Onboard were not only the worshippers returning from their pilgrimage but tens of millions of dollars’ worth of gold and silver.

What followed was one of the most lucrative and heinous robberies of all time. Historical accounts say Every’s band tortured and killed the men onboard the Indian ship and raped the women before escaping to the Bahamas.

Word of their crimes spread quickly, and King William III of England – under enormous pressure from a scandalised India and the East India Company trading giant – put a large bounty on their heads. “Everybody was looking for these guys,” said Bailey

Until now, historians knew only that Every eventually sailed to Ireland in 1696, where the trail went cold. But Bailey says the coins he and others have found are evidence that the notorious pirate first made his way to the American colonies, where he and his crew used the plunder for day-to-day expenses while on the run.

The first complete coin surfaced in 2014 at Sweet Berry farm in Middletown, a spot that had piqued Bailey’s curiosity two years earlier after he found old colonial coins, an 18th-century shoe buckle and some musket balls.

Waving a metal detector over the soil, he got a signal, dug down and found a darkened silver coin he initially assumed was either Spanish or money minted by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Peering closer, the Arabic text on the coin got his pulse racing.

Research confirmed that the exotic coin was minted in 1693 in Yemen. That raised questions, Bailey said, since there was no evidence that American colonists struggling to eke out a living in the New World travelled to anywhere in the Middle East to trade until decades later.

Since then, other detectorists have unearthed 15 additional Arabian coins from the same era – 10 in Massachusetts, three in Rhode Island and two in Connecticut. Another was found in North Carolina, where records show some of Every’s men first came ashore.

“It seems like some of his crew were able to settle in New England and integrate,” said Sarah Sportman, the state archaeologist for Connecticut, where one of the coins was found in 2018 in the ongoing excavation of a 17th-century farm site. “It was almost like a money laundering scheme,” she said.

Although it sounds unthinkable now, Every was able to hide in plain sight by posing as a slave trader – an emerging profession in 1690s New England. On his way to the Bahamas, he even stopped at the French island of Réunion to get some Black captives so he would look the part, Bailey said.

Obscure records show that a ship called the Sea Flower, used by the pirates after they ditched the Fancy, sailed along the eastern seaboard. It arrived with nearly four dozen slaves in 1696 in Newport, Rhode Island, which became a major hub of the North American slave trade in the 18th century.

“There’s extensive primary source documentation to show the American colonies were bases of operation for pirates,” said Bailey, 53, who holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Rhode Island and worked as an archaeological assistant on explorations of the Wydah Gally pirate ship wreck off Cape Cod in the late 1980s.