Birds Birds Birds

You have come across a vast patch of birds. Photos and art posted here will be only of birds; content originating from the Home Patch (me) will be noted. Maimed birds or birds in situations where they are deemed to be in danger by the Patch will not be posted. Welcome to the Bird Patch.

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My beautiful children who are dirty swatches of bowling alley blacklight carpet.

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Pin-tailed Sandgrouse

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[queensnarf]

The most valid tag

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Vague bird suggestion! Birds with bad tempers

Okay when I said “vague” I didn’t mean literally all of them. The only birds that don’t have bad tempers that I can think of are (most) pigeons, those are sweet, precious, idiots.

So while I can technically choose any bird, the one that immediately came to my mind was this fiend:

The extremely mad western capercaillie! When you look them up you can find hundreds of videos of males attacking people.

Notable is that these birds are actually rather shy, and only become this wonderfully angry at everything during the late winter which is also when there’s much fighting between rival males, often leading to injury and sometimes resulting in death. It is during this period that they attack virtually everything that moves, whether it’s cyclists, bird watchers or passing deer.

The reason for this aggression is their mating system, in which a small quantity of males mates with the vast majority of females.

While I can’t say much about how aggressive females are, because there don’t seem to be any resources on that topic (at least not any that are easy to find, I may reblog this later with additional) they do look extremely pissed in virtually any pictures of them

Also I’m going to add more in just a minute (either by editing this or by reblogging) because due to a glitch (?) I can’t continue on my desktop and I have no idea how Tumblr mobile worlks!

Photo credits: Hans Norelius [1] [2], Francesco Veronesi, Lars Falkdalen Lindahl

Sources: birdwords

[tiz-aves]

A: I forgot to point out that I absolutely hate these birds, not because of anything they do or something, no because I can’t fucking figure out how to spell their name correctly and at this point I have given up

B: Okay females are apparently not aggressive, in fact in the beginning of the brooding season they are so sensitive to disturbances that they may just leave the nest (being a bit more tolerant as brooding season nighs end). 

Also because these fantastic birds have so many good pictures of them, have some more;

Photo credits: honzasterba, Matti Suopajärvi, Matti Pohjolainen, Marko Kirjavainen, Tambako The Jaguar, Eva Mårtensson

Sources: Wikipedia The Free Encyclopaedia

[todaysbird]

the agami heron (agamia agami) is a heron species found in central america. researching this reclusive species has proven difficult, as they are a quiet, secluded species rarely seen by humans. in brazil, they are often known as the ‘hummingbird heron’ due to their unique pattern. like other herons, they are wading birds that feed on fish, frogs, and other aquatic prey.

KOFI

[iguanamouth]

alien encounter

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[boxheadpaint]

oh i have some great news, they dont sound like that

thats an american bittern. the one in the video is a eurasian / great bittern.

and they sound like This

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Bird threading pine needles through a leaf to shelter its nest 

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[shithowdy]

for your viewing pleasure, Some Pukekos (at Western Springs Park)

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This is to send everybody off to a good night. Babies <3

[ostdrossel]

Me when I get into the climatised house on a hot day like today.

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Shamo rooster Ft. Vince

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A Barred Plymouth Rock and a Dominique. Note their combs! Ft. Sequoia and Monique

[pularia]

Just finished this game and I thought u would greatly appreciate this 🗡🐔

It is as you see, a RPG game with a hen named Cluckes who wield a sword and could get armors in later stages. The stages grow quite tricky and difficult as you proceed and you only have one life, except if you equip armors!

It’s available in both ios and google play if you want to try this 🐥^^🐣

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Allen’s hummingbird by Salah Baazizi

[ostdrossel]

And last but not least, the Mourning Dove made a comeback to the booth today. Kind of looks like a female. I love it.

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Young baby jacanas are known as “downies” and are capable of walking and swimming as soon as they’ve hatched.  Their father will not feed them, instead guiding them to feed and demonstrating how to hunt and uncover prey.  He will also keep a close eye on them; shortly after hatching, the father will clear the eggshells out of the nest, possibly to deter predators, and will coo at and brood his new family.  If he cannot find one of his chicks, the father will call loudly to try and attract it, and if a predator is detected, he will scream to summon the chicks’ larger and more powerful mother.  He will guard and nurture his little family for 40 to 70 days.