Second child, restless child

Cockatiel therian and questioning amphibian, she/her, 23

[obstructed-birdsong]

Intro post

I am a 25 year old cockatiel therian, specifically a wild type cockatiel. I’ve known I was a therian since some time in 2017 and have been posting here since summer 2018.

Original posts are tagged #tiel talks

Amphibian theriotype questioning blog

Sideblog for non-bird therian content and cryptid stuff

Youtube channel for animations, nature/therian poetry, bird therian content, etc.

Therian amino account that has content I haven’t cross posted to tumblr yet

Tiktok account that I don’t use much anymore because all the therian tags have become overrun with quadrobics, making it very difficult to find any other therian content there. :(

Wattpad account where I have a series of short stories about my bird therian characters, the main theme being the experience of being a newly independent adult but also a bird(not physically)

[hares-lyre]

I have officially discovered a new way to motivate myself to go on walks again

"I should take a walk" No. Terrible, people will see me and it sounds extremely boring

"I should patrol my territory" Absolutely, let's go immediately. There may be stranger wolves invading.

[a-minke-whales-tale]

How Wolfy is the Nonhuman Community?

It is something that is quite often repeated in therian spaces is the abundance of wolves in particular. Rather than doing the methode where a bunch of species are listed I am curious how close the community on average is to wolf.

Please select the closest common clade. If you do not have a nonhuman identity, please select the bottom result if you wish to see the results to avoid skewing the information. If you have multiple types select the closest (or most significant depending on your desire). If your type is not classified such as theriomythics, please select the Other option. If the type classification is unclear (i.e. certain ediacaran or similar ancient life) select which you think best fits.

Addendum: Please put domestic dogs until Canis for C. Familiaris even if modern taxonomy sets domestic dogs as subspecies of C. Lupus. Additionally if you are a cross species animal (i.e. Mule or Wolfdog) use the parent species closest to wolves. If additional edgecases are found, ping me in the replies.

Examples: Minke Whale (balaenoptera acutorostrata) - Mammalia, African Wild Dog (lycaon pictus) - Canidae, Common Tern (sterna hirundo) - Chordata, Pegasus - Mythical: Other, Silver Elf - Non-Terran: Other

How Close to Wolf Are You?

Species: C. Lupus

Genus: Canis

Family: Canidae

Order: Carnivora

Class: Mammalia

Phylum: Chordata

Kingdom: Animalia

Life: Terran

Non-Terran, Non-Life, Non-Classified, Mythic, or Other

Results/I do not identify as non-human

Voting ended onJun 25

Please reblog this to share it further as I am quite curious and would benefit from getting responses beyond my immidiate circle.

[pilferedinstagram]

[obstructed-birdsong]

There is nothing quite like Summer Evening Smell, all of the rocks and trees and plants and soil still warm and smelling nice without the extreme heat.

[obstructed-birdsong]

nesting urges becoming less prominent

Spring has come and gone yet again and I once again noticed that nesting urges don't tend to come naturally, but rather only when prompted by specific things.

Several years back when I was a newly self-discovered bird, urges like that were strong, or rather the urge to do bird things to feel like a bird and express myself. I would make blanket nests often. I searched various online stores to find a bird plush that most closely resembled a cockatiel chick and picked up a decent size and moderately heavy plaster egg from the craft store to have a baby bird and proportionally sized and weighted egg to put in that nest.

Now I haven't built a blanket nest or got out my egg or chick from storage in a few years, mostly because I moved to a place with a roommate and I did not want to share that animal aspect of myself. 

Since then, the main sources of nesting urges have been seeing birds doing specific things. I heard what I had mistaken for the sound of a baby birds calling out for food from a nest and thought to myself, I should be in my nest taking care of my chicks, why am I not doing this.

I see a starling gathering twigs and grass to build its nest and am reminded that nesting building that is a thing that birds, myself included, are supposed to be doing at the time. 

I briefly witnessed two smaller birds chasing a crow away from their nest and swooping at it in the sky, and think about the fact that I should be defending my nest right now instead of standing outside my workplace. 

I noticed pigeons trying to nest on my balcony again and in an attempt to prevent that and the horrible mess that follows, I shoo them away and make an effort to spend more time on that balcony to clearly display this has already been taken as a home and is not a vacant nesting site.

I do not feel the urge to start up a nest at the first warm weather of spring, or upon seeing leaves growing on trees or hearing the dawn chorus in the morning. 

Maybe it is how busy I tend to be as an independent adult with a full-time job or the fact that most of that stuff is usually tucked away in storage and not kept out where it is visible. It could also be that as I have no desire to raise children of my own, the concept of creating little chicks to care for does not register as very important in my mind.

Nesting urges are not something I am going to force. Shifts and bird experiences feel the best when they occur naturally, in response to my environment. There is no sense in pushing myself to gather materials every spring, watch bird nest cams and documentaries or build nests and sit in them in an attempt to create a new seasonal habit.

[vagabond-beast]

Am I a Therian? [A Greymuzzle's Insight]

"Am I a Therian?" you ask with a quizzical expression.

"I like bathing in the sun. I hate taking baths. I'm highly active at 3am," you explain, and so you conclude, "I must be a cat therian!"

Why?

Don't humans also like sitting in warm sunlight? Don't some humans hate the sensation of baths? Aren't some humans more active at night than at day?

Aren't those normal human behaviors?

"I like to howl, bark, and growl! I like to dig in the dirt and play tug-a-war!" you shout excitedly, and so you conclude, "I must be a dog therian!"

Why?

Don't humans also like to be vocal; shouting, hollering, and yelping? Don't some humans love digging in the dirt to see what's beneath? Do you not see the kids playing tug-a-war? Aren't those normal human behaviors?

"But..." you pause and you think. You finally state, "I feel a call to Nature. I feel at home among the trees, when my bare feet touch the Earth. I feel a pain in my heart when looking at my body, like it doesn't feel right. Surely that means I'm a Therian."

Why?

Aren't there humans who feel a call to Nature? Who live by themselves in the woods? Aren't there humans who also feel like something is missing with themselves?

Aren't those normal human behaviors?

"Then how do I know if I'm a Therian?"

Why... are you asking me?

You clearly know yourself better than I do. You have already given so many reasons as to why you must be a Therian, right? So why ask me what you are?

"Cause you're a Therian, too, aren't you?" you ask.

"I am," comes the answer.

"So then tell me," you urge with impatience. "Am I a Therian?"

"I can not tell you," comes another answer. "Because I do not know. I do not know your identity. I do not know what bristles beneath your skin or echoes in your heart."

There are no set rules to define someone who is a Therian. There is no checklist to go through to determine who is a Therian. There are no guidelines to follow under to know who is a Therian.

"Are you an animal?" comes the question. "Are you, in any sense or form, an animal?"

You pause. And you think.

You already know the answer.

"I am an animal."

Then congratulations.

You're a Therian.

[caveat-canine]

THERIAN TIPS [REALLY WORK!]

1. Clean up litter from your local parks, creeks, and roadsides

The earth is our home. Help out where you can to keep her clean and livable for critters now and forever. And as always LEAVE NO TRACE

[catsithkelpie]

(link tracker removed, dw)

AVIAN ALTERBEINGS/NONHUMANS/ALTERHUMANS. LOOK AT THESE WINGS

I have never seen cosplay wings move as realistically as these. They look relatively cheap to make too, once you figure out the mechanics

Just looking at this video gave me species euphoria

[anthrophilokyon]

Trying to find a way to illustrate bird movements in my body. One doesn’t really see much about movement in the therian community aside from quadrobics, and I really want to change that because while our bodies might not always be what we want, it’s filled with infinite possibilities, and I really love that.

Sketch of movements based on my bird that I recreate from time to time, from right to left it’s a sequence of opening your wings (1 to 2), hiding you head on your back wing to preen at yourself (from 3 to 4), and then the beginning of flapping the birds and shaking oneself (last one, 5).

[stargirldotcom]

hang in there girl. we’re gonna have 8pm sunsets again and greenery and warm summer night air and rainy spring days again soon!

[shallowwatercreature]

Questioning a theriotype but online research is slow and you're not sure what species to look at? Go to your local library and check out some nonfiction books about similar animals!

I learned so much more and made more progress from the salamander section of a "tracking amphibians and reptiles book" and taking notes in a journal than I have with googling salamander types and trying to find documentaries.

Animal ID guides, animal tracking guides, "all about (animal)" type of books, animal encyclopedias, and so much more.

You can get so much information about habitats, diet, behavior, life stages, appearance and seasonal habits of many similar creatures in one book rather than having 20 tabs open on your device.

Take notes! Write little journal entries about the different types of animals you learn about, how their lifestyles differ from one another and how that corresponds to shifts or experiences you have. Consider details you didn't think about before, and if you may feel any connection to them after researching.

I hadn't thought about salamanders having a burrowing behavior until I read about it, but then realized I have always been drawn to tiny gaps and crevices near or in the ground, but never connected the two things.

I highly recommend checking out a few books and learning some things about your animal self!

Note: online research is still a very valid way to learn about your theriotype, I just find books to be compact and efficient, and they have no ads or paywalls.

[crapbirdphotography]

Wanted to get a photo of more than a couple dozen crows swarming around this crane. By the time I got my phone out they had all settled in... I guess you can still see them though

[chick-it-out]

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[threedollarsdotcom]

do birds have phones

[chowfur]

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[ravenfleesfire]

Yknow nonhumanity can be mundane too. Not all nonhuman instinct euphoria is like "seeing wild prey somewhere deep in the forest put me in a hawk mindset" sometimes it's like "snatching the good table at the library quicker than the 20 other people waiting for it put me in a hawk mindset"