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Common Grackle fledgling, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6.

what you need today is a video of Curculio nut weevil taking off from my hand

pet parrot content is getting more popular on platforms like tiktok, and i just want to put it out there that parrots are NOT like dogs or cats. i've already seen more than one video of someone falling in love with a parrot at something like a petsmart (sidebar: like for most animals, please find a responsible, ethical breeder) (this will also hopefully let you know that you are indeed buying a bred parrot and not a wild-caught) and buying one on impulse, and MY GOD does that make me nervous. people who are capable of giving parrots a good life are a vast, VAST minority of people.

my grandfather bred parrots so i grew up with them from a young age, and while i love them and respect them and am glad for the time i got to spend growing up around them, there's a reason *i* do not own a parrot. he always had a clause in the purchase agreement that meant parrots would be surrendered back to him and not abandoned/given to a shelter/rescue, and he had MANY birds given back. many. even with talking it through with people and letting them meet his other birds and experience their volume and how much care they need, there were still people who would buy a parrot and in a few months nearly beg to give it back bc they were in over their heads.

parrots are beautiful, intelligent animals, but they require SO much care and work and socializing. they are flock-based animals, and you will have to be their flock. they will need HOURS of your attention and care every single day. (and i mean HOURS). and if they don't get it, they can and will start engaging in behavior including mutilating themselves and plucking their feathers out. also they are super sensitive to their surroundings. new person in the house they don't like? plucking themselves with stress. too many visitors for their comfort? plucking themselves with stress. you went on a vacation and they aren't dealing with it well? plucking themselves with stress. new puppy in the house? plucking themselves with stress. get a divorce/move houses/new baby in the home? plucking themselves with stress. obviously not every bird will be sensitive to the same degree, but in general, parrots deal with stress/changes in environment WAY worse than other pets.

depending on the breed, you will have a creature with the intelligence of a toddler (some are even as smart as your average 5 year old), and you will be living with this toddler for literal decades. conures live 20-30 years, african grays live 40-60 years, and cockatoos can live 60-80 years. this toddler creature will ALSO have evolved to have a cry that can carry through jungles, and that volume is not gonna decrease bc you live in an apartment and your neighbors aren't gonna want to hear it. you ever heard a sun conure? get within a mile of one and you will.

tl;dr: parrots are beautiful and i love them, but there is no way in hell i would ever own one bc there are SO few people who should.

hollowedskin

When I was in psych hospital last week I went on an infodump about how great pigeons are, and now one of the psych nurses is considering getting a pigeon instead of a parrot.

Bird win!

iapislazuli

Owning a black cat is awesome because you’ll leave the bathroom and The Shape will be waiting for you

marinella-ela

phoenixwrites

#that giraffe is being so cute and curious and gentle#and that is running full speed because this is the worst fucking day if his LIFE#like IMAGINE having your butt gently scooted by the snoot of a pressence so massive#your body is not designed to even see high enough to see the top of#abd hes just gently nudging you along as you run for your life as fast as your legs can carry you#giraffe is playing humans are enjoying turtle is living out a cosmic horror story

anime-books-and-movies

✨️The giraffe✨️:

Vs.

The turtle:

melgillman

A four page comic about drawing, drawn for the Portland Public Library's newest exhibit, "Why We Make Comics: Reflections on Storytelling".

If you live in Portland ME, you can see this comic, as well as three others drawn by Isabella Rotman, Caroline Hu, and Liz Prince, on display from October 6th to December 31 at the library!

datgreenmonstah

Haunted by these memories of this place

supergrinch

reblog to be eaten by this thing

important-animal-images

cryptonature

I can identify every species of bird I encounter except for the ones I don’t know.

tinylongwing

Over on twitter there’s a group of people doing a Bird ABC challenge. These are the first three in my series! I’m keeping them to super quick sketches to make sure I can actually finish them all.

American Robin

Brown Creeper

Cooper’s Hawk

(If any of you are also on twitter and want to see these as they come out, follow me there at tinylongwing. Otherwise, I’ll post these to tumblr in batches!)

toebeens

Howdy everyone!!! I don’t want a novel but do want to update you guys. I am OFFICIALLY back to work and am recovering well from the accident, next Followup in two months. Not only am I back but we are so crazy busy I’ve been working over 10 hours every shift. Unfortunately I still haven’t been able to get this short term disability stuff dealt with but spoke with an EEOC attorney to help me so I will know more this week, and because of when I started my paycheck had two days on it. But this next check will have close to 20 hours of overtime on it which is going to be so helpful. However, because we get paid our commission portion the second check of the following month, I will not receive a commission check until the end of July. With all of this said, I’m trying to make sure I can pay my rent this month, get my medication, and cover my bills. My check should cover about half of everything but I’ll still be shy about $900 total by the end of the month. For anyone who doesn’t know, my mom and dad died 5 months apart so I have no family to ask for help, and I was in a car accident and just had spinal surgery and was out of work for just under 3 months after complications.

I have a PayPal (http://paypal.me/jpd05) which is easiest/most convenient, but I also have Cash App ($sachasaurus), Chime & KoFi (@toebeens). Reblogs and donations are very much appreciated, thank you!!!! 💚💚💚

$0/$900

June 10th 15:15

toebeens

$232/$900

June 20th 17:35

Hey everyone, updating from the original so it’s not crazy long. Thank you for all your help so far, really. It truly is appreciated and the reblogs and donations mean so very much! Be well and be safe, weather has been crazy everywhere!!

ありがとうございます！

toebeens

$232/$900

June 21st 20:15

Hi guys. Donations have basically come to a stop and reblogs have slowed down a lot. I hate having to basically beg like this, but since mom and dad died and I don’t have any living family to ask for help with everything, I truly don’t know have any other options. Things would be very different if I wasn’t out of work after having spinal surgery from someone totaling my stopped car hitting me at my 55mph pushing me across the entire intersection. I’m thankful to be alive and better after surgery now and finally be back at work, but need a little help, just until I get this settlement money. As always reblogs are super helpful and appreciated if you can’t donate at the moment, and thank you to everyone who has taken the time to say kind things. You’re all incredible!!

あなたは皆素晴らしいです！

toebeens

$326/$900

June 24th 9:05

nureyev313

For some perspective, since Feb 2022 they have received over $6,300, and that is a low estimate only going by the claimed amounts received as per the x$/x$ 's.

Even if it is all 100% legit, that's... a lot. maybe people just don't have much more to give. So many people are struggling.