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A page for me to semi-anonymously derp about fandoms and have opinions.

[herpsandbirds]

can you show me some corvids? perhaps?

YOU COME HERE? TO ME HOUSE? AND YOU ASK ME? FOR CORVIDS??? IN THIS DAY???

Sure.

Black-throated Magpie-Jays (Cyanocorax colliei), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, NW Mexico

photograph via: Gulf Coast Bird Observatory

Racket-tailed Treepie (Crypsirina temia), family Corvidae, Kaeng Krachan NP, Thailand

photograph by Michael Gillam

Common Green Magpie (Cissa chinensis), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, India

Photograph by Sandeep Chakraborty

Tufted Jay (Cyanocorax dickeyi), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Mexico

photograph by Daniel Garza Tobón

Pied Crow (Corvus albus), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Etosha National Park, Namibia

photograph by Frank Vassen crowcorvidaecorvusbird

[herpsandbirds]

Could you perhaps share some pictures of the smallest species of parrots? I'm not certain what the actual smallest species (on average) is but I love all parrots especially small ones and would adore some pics from you.

If that's not possible (or in addition, if you like) could I have some pictures of wild budgerigars, cockatiels, and other small parrots that are frequently kept as pets? I have my own budgies I take very good care of but I'm curious what their wild relatives are up to...

Also this is a long shot but I've heard that there's a non-native population of budgerigars in Florida. If you have any pictures of those guys I would love to see!

I think I can rustle up a few small parrots for you...

The smallest parrots are the Pygmy Parrots:

Buff-faced Pygmy Parrot (Micropsitta pusio), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, found on the islands of New Britain and New Guinea

Among the smallest species of parrot, growing to a length of only 8.6 cm (3.4 in).

photos: Robert Hutchinson and Carmelo Lopes Abad

Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot (Micropsitta bruijnii), male, family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, New Guinea

These tiny parrots are only 8 cm (3 in) in length. (This measurement does not include the tail feathers).

photographs by Lev Frid

Finsch's or Emerald Pygmy Parrot (Micropsitta finschii), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, found on islands in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Bismarck Archipelago

photographs: Lars Petersson & John C. Mittermeier

Yellow-capped Pygmy Parrot (Micropsitta keiensis), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, found in western New Guinea

photographs: Dom Chaplin and Emma Geary

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[herpsandbirds]

i posted some loggerhead shrike images in a server and they kept getting called CUTE !! the butcherbird enclave cannot stand for this... i request your FIERCEST loggerhead shrikes...

HAVE A LOOK AT THESE VICIOUS DIABOLOCAL BUTCHER BIRDS!!!

Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), family Laniidae, order Passeriformes, FL, USA

photograph by Jeffery Gemmon

Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), family Laniidae, order Passeriformes, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

photograph by Jay Paredes

Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) feed the baby a TASTY MOLE CRICKET!!!, family Laniidae, order Passeriformes, FL, USA

photograph by Phil Rathner

Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), family Laniidae, order Passeriformes, Arizona, USA

photograph by Aaron Marshall

Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), EAT A TASY SNAKE!!!, family Laniidae, order Passeriformes, WA, USA

photograph by Christopher Clark

[aggressiveslothnoises]

Can't believe Cheyanne had to get a job in a Amazon warehouse for her mission. That's some dedication.

[musashi]

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

[musashi]

So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

[galliumgummysharks]

the masculine feminine and frankly universal urge to become a massive fucking dragon

[beardedmrbean]

Periscope up

[birds-in-posts]

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

[gaytanic-panic]

[asouthernrussian]

@todaysbird

[theinternetarchive]

System wallpapers from Windows XP's RTM, Build 2600; Microsoft Co., August 24, 2001.

[pepperandpals]

Mood

[aggressiveslothnoises]

[vicarofhobbiton]

Cetaganda

Etiquette Expert: Welcome to Genetic Engineering and Complicated Protocol Planet! The social rules about sex here are soooo complex, but that's never gonna come up because they're too xenophobic to mess with offworlders.

Himbo Cousin Ivan: Bet.

Himbo Cousin Ivan proceeds to get drugged with a floppy dick drug and then, by losing at sex, win at sex so comprehensively that he is flooded with illicit invitations for the duration of the adventure.

Meanwhile our buddy Miles is swooning in unrequited infatuation for 90% of the women he sees and simultaneously playing 4D chess against both murderous adversaries and his own allies, thus averting several different possible interplanetary crises through the power of reckless scheming.

[yesornopolls]

do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJul 21

[mooned-knights]

is anyone else annoyed that "ai" encompasses both chatgpt and tools we train to do repetitive tedious work for us. and by the ripple effect of articles like "scientists develop ai to detect cancer early" that make people argue for the merit of chatgpt or become anti-medicine. and by the general state of the world and society

[herpsandbirds]

Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus), chick (fledgling), family Cuculidae, order Cuculiformes, Arizona, USA

photograph by Mark Koster

[enba-and-luka]

[ironlily-art]

Heatwave killing, and portable fan is the lifesaver.