mostly birds

some history, art, pretty dresses etc. profile/header photos are the amazing Atawhai from the Cornell/DoC royal albatross cam. secondary blog: birds-and-friends (sadly abandoned)

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[craftingcreatures]

So I was watching a video on ptarmigans and it was mentioned that they dig burrows in the snow for shelter and protection. Which, cool! Burrowing bird! Then they showed this picture and

It's perfect

[beggars-opera]

The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

[formerlyanon]

and we need that! keeps us humble. 

[dabouse]

Then I'm just like WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE AN ADULT

[tomboy014]

It goes the other way, too, because WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE A CHILD?!!

[dabouse]

I'm 16, that's like, barely a child

[tomboy014]

I'm in my 30s. You are baby

[digitaldiscipline]

I'm older than both of you in a trenchcoat.

[kabretoss]

honestly one of the best things we can do for ourselves is realize that people of different ages than us can still be the same kind of person as us. it's humbling and it gives everyone involved a sense of continuity, and it busts those stupid generational stereotypes media is so fond of.

[michaelnordeman]

Bumblebee/humla. Värmland, Sweden (May 17, 2020).

[tomb-of-madeline]

The Bird Daughters. A comic about a bird woman and her dreams. made in the spring of 2023.

[smoluglies]

Today’s post is a collaboration with @shiiyart 🫶

I was once again lucky to create a world for one of Shii’s cute creatures to live in 🥹

This time a rainbow eyed owl was looking for a meadow on another planet where she could fly around peacefully.. and I hope that I was able to provide that :)🤞❤️

[fripperiesandfobs]

Waistcoat, 1795-1800

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[mevvsan]

The gang is all here! And until the end of the month they are all 25% off over on my Etsy shop, along with all my other completed pieces!

[frookie]

Currently blooming in the garden! So chuffed with all the colour I've got so far - my fuchsias I saved over winter again have plenty of green on them but no flowers as of yet, so looking forward to those coming out.

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner-deactiv]

[marauderfan]

Street art in Biel, Switzerland

[otiksimr]

Poorly drawn Sandshrew line

[longingforrotkehlchen]

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NO PHOTOS!!!

Graugans 🐣 (greylag goose) am Max-Eyth-See, Mühlhausen.

[askforabird]

scaled quail please :D

Scaled Quail Callipepla squamata

© Ryan Sanderson

[diblmetta]

Favorite scene from “forests” in Prehistoric Planet

[blackulax]

They are just like me forreal

[white-throated-packrat]

every time I see film of a platypus I am struck again by how small they are

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

I would like to clarify for people in the notes that the platypus in the video is a baby and the adults are bigger:

I mean. they're still not huge but they're a little bigger! I could not tell you off the top of my head how big a beaver is though so fair enough to you northern hemisphere folks.

Also the guy in the last photo is a wildlife ecologist and the platypus is fine, they have a massive slab of a tail it's not gonna damage them.

[birdstudies]

April 10, 2024 - Purple-backed Fairywren (Malurus assimilis) Found throughout much of Australia, these fairywrens live in shrubby habitats. They feed on arthropods and seeds, foraging in pairs or small flocks in shrubs and on the ground. Females build domed oval-shaped nests with side entrances from grass, twigs, bark, fur, and feathers in bushes, trees, fern clumps, or other vegetation. They incubate clutches of two to four eggs. Helpers from previous broods assist the parents with feeding the chicks.