[ains-art]

Sketch of my friend's baby Hahn's macaw, who makes the funniest noises ever (professional and unbiased opinion) (i'm not accepting any objections)

[secondlina]

Customized sky bit ✨️

[fae-fatale-06]

Domherre / Bullfinch

[demon-from-your-dreams]

Another piece in my series, this time depicting another favorite of mine, being the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius).

At the time they were alive, passenger pigeons where the worlds most abundant bird species with numbers up to 5 billion in the wild and flocks reported to take hours to pass overhead.

Passenger pigeons were sexually diamporphic, with males being brighter in color and larger than their female counterparts.

From their massive numbers and sweeping flocks, the endling of their species (An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies), known as Martha, passed in 1914, a female who lived to about 29 years old in the Cincinnati zoo.

Upon her death, the species was declared extinct.

[scottpartridge]

Week 4 of #birdartweekly hosted by @migratorymay and featuring birds o East India this month is the Yellow-Breasted Bunting, which has become rare just in the past 20 years due to hunting.

[pangur-and-grim]

so much care put into housing this aging spider. why are my eyes wet

(tiktok link)

[masque-de-nox]

Alien Scientist: No, you don’t understand. Humans will pack bond with anything.

[dazzleyourmindseye]

[vet-and-wild]

If you are trying to overcome a fear of spiders I can’t recommend this TikTok enough. They never post jump scares and always put warnings if a spider moves fast in a video. All of the videos are super cute and portray the spiders in a very positive and non threatening manner. 11/10 would recommend.

[alphalesbian]

awow. awow. awow. Awow. awowAwowawowAwow awow awow awow. bup bup bupbup bup bup bup bup bup. if you even care

[alphalesbian]

btw. if you even care btw. btw

[pipebombgf]

[identifyingbirdsinposts]

Willow Ptarmigan (Male plumage)

[magpye-birb]

April 2nd yall, happy birthday to me lol

[0idea]

Drawing birds based on memory 🐤 ✏️

[injuries-in-dust]

Weird and wonderful compilation of strange bird noises.

[cookiedoves]

🦅 albatros, eagle, condor

[madbabyart]

bird sketch

[kness]

1 cup 26 bunnies

[guildofscribes]

Okay, so the thoughts that humans are little or weak, very helpless on the galactic scale in movies and that earth is easy pickings by aliens who don’t view us as a viable life-form or something… I get it.

Sure. Humans fight each other all the time, aliens would probably think we’re the worst, right?

But what if we’re not?

What if the aliens come, and the first thing they say is, “Hello! We are so glad we found you! We are so pleased to meet you!” Similar to how humans greet puppies that we really want to meet and not scare, except it’s aliens that have been following radio messages across light years to find us.

We’ve spent so long wondering about what’s out there, and we see ourselves almost as a blight on our own planet, when we’re probably just fine. We’re trying. Maybe, just maybe, we’re okay. Maybe an outsider would look at us and think, “Look at them! They’re trying to be good! They name rocks and waters and cleaning robots! I love them for it!”

We tend to think that we must be the worst, the most backward, the blandest, least interesting or intelligent creatures in the galaxy.

I wonder how aliens would actually look at us.

We play whale noises into the black. We send greetings. We send probes with videos and audio tracks out explaining who we are and what we do on earth, just in case there’s someone else out there wondering if they’re alone in the universe. We tame predators to be companions because we are compassionate and we want to be friends with anything that will have us.

Maybe we’re not so bad.

I don’t know. This thought has been cycling through my brain a lot lately. Humans are weird and crazy, but we’re not the worst. Maybe we’re even likable.

[hoot-alex]

[herpsandbirds]

Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria), family Tichodromidae, order Passeriformes, China

This species is the only member of this family.

photograph by Alec Zhu (@chinesenature66)

[idlelizard]

twisting and bitturning