With talons sharper than my tongue

Soren | 20 | He/She/It

[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 💙

[otiksimr]

round-let

[winding-maze]

"Blackbird" - personal work, inspired by my hometown. Blackbirds are my favourite - they sing so beautifully.

[soymoss]

starling

[transastronautistic]

ID: digital art on a bright yellow background of a bird with blue-black feathers, which have yellow and orange asterisk-shaped stars on them

[cyanocoracinae]

LIFER (WILD) EASTERN MEADOWLARK FOR MEEEE

[nocturnal-stims]

Owl stimboard for @thememeyakuza . Had fun making this one, hope you have fun looking at it. Here's some bonus owl trivia.

Sources: x x x / x x x / x x x

[vestaignis]

Глухарь. Национальный парк «Водлозерский». Фотограф Лобанов Роман. Россия (Пересвет). The Wood grouse. Vodlozersky National Park. Photographer Lobanov Roman. Russia (Peresvet).

Источник: //35photo.pro/lobanovr.

[theimpalee]

here's a small collection of birds who remind me that These Are Actual Living Dinosaurs

shoebill

cassowary

bearded vulture

roadrunner

nightjar

[herpsandbirds]

can i request an osprey?

You have been such a good they/them that you can have 3!!!

Osprey aka Sea Hawk (Pandion haliaetus) snagging 2 sunfish at once!, family Pandionidae, order Accipitriformes, NE coast of the U.S.

photograph by James C Sengul 

Florida, USA - photograph by Ferit Başbuğ

Sweden - photograph by Marc FASOL

[saint-nevermore]

tawny-throated leaftosser (ref)

small brown birds can be pretty too :)

[herpsandbirds]

Violet Turaco (Tauraco violaceus), family Musophagidae, order Musophagiformes, found in West Africa

photographs by William Chong

[mellifexfarm]

his spurs are longer than his legs 😭

[shittybirdart]

american flamingo