V. I love pigeons and chickens too much! Dreaming and planning for the distant future where I can care for a flock. Icon and Header images are both taken by me, my icon being my favorite local pigeon 💖 This is a sideblog! Likes and reblogs from she-doesnt-have-the-range.
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Decided to go a bit more stylized with this very stylish bird
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Taking on @thelocal-idot 's birdtober 2024 challenge this year because I like birds
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photos by carl bergstrom
After nearly 20 years of trying to increase the red-headed vulture population, this endangered baby vulture was born in March at the Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo in northeast Thailand. The endangered bird is the first red-headed - also known as Asian king vulture - to be bred in the continent and only the second in the world. X
Today’s birds are the cygnets, swans, and pukeko of Western Springs
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This is the standard winged nightjar and it has one singular stupidly big feather on each wing... if you even care.
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
this horrible beast looked me directly in the eye and shit on my mousepad
*one* of Audobon's unidentified birds? I remember hearing something about him hoaxing a new fish species to get back at another naturalist he had a rivalry with, but not about this
several of the birds from birds of america are unidentified today. In order, Cuvier's Kinglet, the Carbonated Warbler, the Small-headed Flycatcher, the Blue Mountain Warbler, Bartram's Vireo, and Townsend's Bunting:
(audubon.org goes over the likely identities of the birds here)
interestingly someone photographed a bird near identical to Townsend's Bunting a few years ago; a dickcissel with weird colors:
a big win for cryptidzoology
Sometimes people accuse my chickens of being generated images and sometimes I think they are too
I haven’t done any fandom things in a minute but here’s some chickens
Oh the struggle to exist in multiple places 😭 this was inspired by a photo a friend took of a crow checking out some kind of food package, which was seemingly very interesting 👀 🗑️ 🍿
Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata), family Pteroclidae, order Pterocliformes, Iran
photograph by Seyed Babak Musav
god pigeons have such good coos. theyre like horoorororo. i love it. it vibrates in the chambers of my heart and awakens my soul from a slumber that was far, far too long. horoorororo
Bearded vultures will see an iron oxide rich mud puddle and go 'is anyone going to bathe in that' and not wait for an answer
BAWKtober - Caramel Apples
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I saw this photo of a Gannet taken by Paul Miguel on twitter and immediately thought "oh that's an angel" so I wanted to draw it out before I forgot.
Ground Parrot (Pezoporus wallicus), family Psittaculidae, Tasmania, Australia
photograph by Subhranil Das