[kaylmao]

just molted for the first time ama

[evil-sludge]

U feelin' mushy? Easily susceptible to predation..?

[kaylmao]

ok no more questions

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

[dogpuppy]

[joanthebonelord]

[targetedknowledge]

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[catchymemes]

[herpsandbirds]

Wilson's Plover (Anarhynchus wilsonia), chicks, family Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, FL, USA

photographs by Igor Marach

[toexploretheworld]

Baltit, Pakistan (by toufeeque)

[ow-my-skin]

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[aetherograph]

More context:

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

ospreys have eyes adapted to seeing beneath the surface of the water!

[yokelfelonking]

nnn toh birb

[fr3nstimu1ator]

[beardedmrbean]

[despazito]

[imperial-russia]

Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, one of the famous Russian painters, in front of his painting “Bogatyrs”

[beardedmrbean]

weird looking duck

[veilwaltz]

[pam3pr]

Two thousand year old Thracian chariot with horse skeletons - found in Karanovo, Bulgaria - 2008