Birds are just high-tech dinosaurs

Side blog for birb content. I like birds. And I will make it everyone else's problem.

[herpsandbirds]

Black Bittern (Botaurus flavicollis), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, India

All bitterns were recently folded into the genus Botaurus, removing many species from the now defunct genus Ixobrychus.

photograph by Saswat Mishra

[todaysbird]

Today's birds are these cockatoos at the beach

[todaysbird]

Today's bird is this Cape Baron Goose

[beardedmrbean]

Periscope up

[birds-in-posts]

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

[herpsandbirds]

Very gorgeous visitor on the beach (Great Blue Heron / East Coast Central FL)

Very gorgeous. Very powerful.

[herpsandbirds]

Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus), male, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, northern India

Photograph by Jayeeta Chowdhury 

[shpepyao]

These are the bugbirds. When I saw a photo of weevil for a first time I mistook it for some kind of weird birbo.

[herpsandbirds]

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

photograph by Mark Koster

[strawberry-crocodile]

the thing about "birds are dinosaurs" is it forces people to confront the idea of dinosaurs as like a part of natural history, a biological animal clade that really for real lived and breathed and were sometimes strange and sometimes small and sometimes peaceful and sometimes ugly, and not as Cool Monsters or a metaphor for Progress. and people don't like that. they say no, actually, when i use dinosaur i mean "weird stupid extinct giant lizard lizard monster" and birds aren't part of that category. and i say. you shouldnt use dinosaurs that way. go suck a baculum.

[east-south]

maybe they don't like being called names. have you ever thought about that

[spider-artdump]

[todaysbird]

GET YELLED AT

photos by carl bergstrom

[bird-gifs-collection-agency]

ill just shake it all around! here i go!

[herpsandbirds]

Agami Heron (Agamia agami), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, Costa Rica

photograph by Nancy Elwood

[glassshine]

[jabberding0]

Meet Oropherion, a majestic male Martial Eagle with his trainer

[cococoffeee]

Another utah comm