ornithologicallyella

she / / uk / / 20 something birds, art, and other things ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜

[rayewarrrd]

rook

[killjoys-make-s0me-nois3]

[thagomizersshow]

So much of paleontology is "what did this beaked thing eat?" And then your best guess for years turns out to be so so so wrong.

Like Gastornis was thought to be a carnivore for decades and then carbon isotopes were like, "nah this thing was basically a giant goose honk honk".

Art by Ja Chirinos

Oviraptor was thought to be an egg eater, then much ink was spilled about whether it ate mollusks, and now it's thought to be an omnivore, but mostly a fruit/seed eater like a parrot.

Somehow this Adobe Stock image is the only art of an Oviraptor eating plants I can find. How is that?

And even birds with some teeth are getting in on these dietary mysteries.

Longipteryx was first thought to be a kingfisher-like hunter of aquatic prey, but it has since been found with seed contents in its guts, making it another surprise frugivore.

Photo by Xiaoli Wang

[ornithologicallyella]

that healed so hard i became weird again trend but its me sat in a my chemical romance shirt scrolling tumblr dot com

[monkeywiki]

28 year old tumblr users will look at you and say do you remember thwomp day of 2013 when everyone was posting thwomp from mario 64 in different audio

[rayewarrrd]

eurasian chaffinch

[ornithologicallyella]

Lesbian doves ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜

inspired by this instagram post

[dozydawn]

great grey shrike eating from a european robin impaled on a thorn.

[michaelnordeman]

Great tit/Parus major/talgoxe. Värmland, Sweden (23 July 2023).

[ornithologicallyella]

okay tumblr may yet be a mistake because i made it to post profesh art and science things and now i am writing posts about nonsense in my head that i will never post?

[ornithologicallyella]

i'm pleased to see that 2026 tumblr has retained some of the whimsy of the 2010 tumblr we all know and love. i should never have deleted my superwholock blog

[ornithologicallyella]

okay egberts is still here we are still living in the old times

[ornithologicallyella]

i'm pleased to see that 2026 tumblr has retained some of the whimsy of the 2010 tumblr we all know and love. i should never have deleted my superwholock blog

[ornithologicallyella]

What's your second favourite bird joke?

A bird can't hurt me, but toucan

[ornithologicallyella]

What's your favourite bird joke?

what do you call a chicken that's afraid of heights?

A chicken

[amnhnyc]

You won’t find this pigeon on the streets of New York City. Meet the Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans)! This colorful bird can be found throughout Southeast Asia, where it inhabits forests. It hangs out in small flocks in the treetops, foraging mainly for fruit. Distinguishing males from females isn’t too difficult: Females lack pink necks and are mostly olive-green in color!

Photo: Yi-Kai Tea, CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist

[ornithologicallyella]

I made this blog to post art and bird things, so here is both of those things in one: a drawing of a eurasian magpie i did recently!

[ornithologicallyella]

i used to be a tumblr girlie through and through in like 2010, but i have come crawling back so i can have a nice space for art and ornithology posting