With talons sharper than my tongue

Soren | 20 | He/She/It

[heymisterpigeon]

I was trying to photograph a pair of water rail when these two idiots decided to start slapping the crap out of each other

[gremlininho]

looking. at you

[amnhnyc]

Na-Na-Na-Na-Na Bat Hawk (Macheiramphus alcinus)! Named after its favorite snack, and not to be confused with your favorite superhero, this raptor mainly feeds on small bats. It has a wide but fragmented range and might be seen in parts of Africa, Southeast Asia, and Papua New Guinea. It lives in a variety of habitats, such as forests, wetlands, and savannas, where it spends most of its day roosting on a perch. But when the Sun starts to set and bats come out, this bird is quick to strike. Within about a 20-minute timespan, it can catch and gulp down as many as 11 bats!

Photo: Gary Albert, CC BY-SA 2.0, flickr

[hoot-alex]

Backyard Sounds from 2022

[greycatbird]

No creature on this earth has ever been hungrier than a teen chickadee being taught how to forage and following one of their parents around BEGGING BEGGING BEGGING to be fed

[greycatbird]

bugs and worms and grubs PLEEEEEAAAAASE

[rainyydoves]

why don't you calm down and look up the little auk

[rainyydoves]

why don't you calm down. and look at the little auk.

[doodle-photos]

Beautiful male mandarin ducks. Taken in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield. May 2025.

[bird-gifs-collection-agency]

ill just shake it all around! here i go!

[sugiichi]

Tarsiger cyanurus [ルリビタキ,Red-flanked bluetail]

見えるところになかなか止まってくれず、手強かったです😅

[snejkha]

Maksim design update for @gargoylegirlcock // Thank you so much again//

[aukkenopsia]

birdfolks

[wesensart]

[life-on-our-planet]

eepy mourning dove cupping its wings under its belly for cushion ©Ella

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[parakeet]

just found out about this cute little birdy and i am in love

[crowcryptid]

[awheckery]

from the above-linked ebird.org:

Anis are bizarre, coal-black cuckoos with long floppy tails and unique, curiously tall, flattened bills. Groove-billed occurs in a variety of open and semi-open habitats in tropical lowlands and foothills, typically staying low in shrubs and grasses. Gregarious and not particularly graceful; usually seen crashing around awkwardly in small groups.

oh my god

[roach-works]

groove billed anis are a hilarious cuckoo situation where they ended up laying their eggs in one another’s nests instead of anyone else’s. they hang out together in groups of up to five pairs until a nest gets built (sometimes by committee, sometimes they just hang around hopefully until someone does it all on their own) then they start sneaking over and laying an egg in at a time. the females who lay for the first time will sometimes flip prior eggs out of the nest like ‘oh i KNOW this one isn’t mine! away it goes’ but eventually everyone’s laid a couple eggs in there and is stuck with the mutual hostage situation. then they take turns incubating until all the kids hatch and everyone pitches in on feeding them, because no one knows which of the kids are theirs so they all might as well.

they also like to do a team handshake where they clump up and mutually make a low bubbling noise together, to signal group affiliation. go team!

[keeskiwi]

Also their eggs are incredibly beautiful. They’re a very pretty blue color, but covered by a white chalky outer layer that is easily scratched off, so they end up in various stages of in-between.

(Photo © Henrique_Anizio, shared under CC BY-NC).

[foxsnails]

I absolutely love Night Herons and whatevers wrong with them <3

More fun with the water-soluable pastels!

[teethwings]

drew an american avocet i saw recently 💙