Indefinite Hiatus

In loving memory of Mochi Bird (OTRB)

[pseudomantis]

Have you seen how Carolina wrens sleep

[thetursithan]

Every now and then you also need to do a bit of gymnastics...

[autistrix]

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/112646473]

Eurasian Nightjar || Caprimulgus europaeus

Observed in Greece

Least Concern in location of observation

Bird banding is much more fun for the banders than for the birds lol

[giant-runt-winter]

No better feeling in the world than when your pet comes to hang out with you 💙

[thehotgirlproject]

Moved to tears by the size of the lass

[maybethings]

*slaps back of pidge* this good bird can fit so much cooing in it

[naamahdarling]

Put sound on the cooing is delightful and the SPAP sound of thumping this giant bird is incredible.

[besnouted]

these 3 are fully feathered and so big that mom no longer lets them sit under her. but dad still does

[shinolavolume1-deactivated20240]

Cute baby birds

[escuerzoresucitado]

[ostdrossel]

Oh my goodness, the woodpecker 😆 (other two are Oriole and female Grosbeak)

[lostinhistory]

@bbcwhereareyou

[ceekari]

[canreblogforsher]

@todaysbird

[todaysbird]

this is a magical interaction. the grosbeak’s face is everything

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[orsanedraws]

pov: you're a tiny bowl of water

[famousfishathletecookie]

[fucxingcuties]

Barred owl

[blueinsitu]

Just some beautiful pigeons I saw in the Canary Islands 💙

[minmos]

front facing egrets making me lose control of everything

[kuvaton]

[kedreeva]

Did you know that peafowl are born with a full set of flight feathers? It only takes them 3-4 days to remove the sheaths and put a little length on them, and then they are capable of flight!

It's very obnoxious!

[kedreeva]

glad that came through in text

[praise-suns-and-chill]

PERFECT BIRD

[kedreeva]

She continues to be perfect

[kedreeva]

For reference, it was 6 months between the first photo and the third photo. She was still a juvenile. She'll be a sub adult a year from now. She'll (hopefully, if nothing untoward happens) live 20+ years. She's not even done growing. Peafowl are big.

Anyway here's a middle photo.

Compared to her now in the same chair

[chantaquill]

But is she enjoying Dredge?

[kedreeva]

No we've moved on to Monster Hunter

(she's standing behind the laptop, preening over it and pecking at the screen as I play)

[kedreeva]

#the idea of a peafowl as a HOUSE PET is so wild to me #I hope you're having fun OP (via @sweetlyfez)

Oh she's definitely not a house pet, despite these photos being indoors. This is where she lives with her friends, Earl, Stella, and Heather:

And she'll sit on me outside as well. She just likes to visit inside now, since she was hand raised, which was only possible because I knew for 100% from the second she hatched that she was a hen. If she'd been a boy I would never have hand raised her because hand raised peacocks turn ultra-aggressive at maturity and have hurt a good number of people. I breed and raise them and have for well over a decade, nearly two, so I know what I was doing :)

[dementian]

I have never related to an animal more in my fucking life. 

[dreadpiratemegatron]

Steller’s jay stealing sweetener packets

National Geographic photo contest 2011

[zanmor]

Those are clearly complimentary and thus this isn’t theft. A social faux pas perhaps but that’s all.