#diamond firetail

[five-crows-in-a-trenchcoat]

"Am I Really Destined to Spend my Whole Life Either Waiting or Running Out of Time?" Digital (Krita), 2025. Approx 80 hours, 13 brushes.

Finished my yearly bird drawing, this time of a Diamond Firetail! I'm rather fond of the ones that live in my yard :>

[scottpartridge]

Here are some reposts of #birdtober2025 prompts I had posted in the past.

[alonglistofbirds]

[2955/11080] Diamond firetail - Stagonopleura guttata

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Passeroidea Family: Estrildidae (estrildid finches)

Photo credit: Laurie Ross via Macaulay Library

[omg-snakes]

With my ongoing promise to share other pet photos rarely and randomly, here's my little-big finch, David. He is a diamond firetail, Stagonopleura guttata. David likes things that are light-colored (cotton, white feathers) and also things that are long (grass, my hair) so a paper towel cut into thin strips was the best of both worlds. He is very, very smart. He understands some human words (you're okay, water, seeds) and he will play with my hair if I stay very still. He has a flock call that sounds so sad and plaintive but he only uses it on me because I am his food-giver. His song is a rattling raspy buzz and is accompanied by a bobbing dance while holding something long. He has an arranged marriage to Alice, another of his species. They have different interests but they mostly get along okay. They cooperate on foraging enrichment and they share a nest for sleeping. I think David might be a human imprint.

Birds aren't snakes but they are dinosaurs so, like, close enough.

[farewell-to-lorien]

Birbfest Collection 2024, by Aga Więckowska.

[triruntu]

#542, a diamond firetail.

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[yellowcloudshop]

diamond firetail for birbfest 🔥

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[birds-and-friends]

Full video: Diamond Firetail (Stagonopleura guttata), Tim Siggs