#terror birdsonas

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Next Terror birdsona - Harry Goodsir! Here we have a Ruddy Turnstone, a scruffy little Arctic shorebird who not only has some nice sideburns, but is also quite fond of crustaceans!  (sorry @bro-stoevsky​ you don’t know what you’ve unleashed!)

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Time for more Terror Birdsonas!

Here is a 1933 illustration of an American Golden Plover and a Ruddy Turnstone, aka James Fitzjames and Harry Goodsir looking for crustaceans and zooplankton in the Davis Straits.

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Could Hickey be a shrike? Or some other small and vicious bird

YES! Unfortunately shrikes don’t tend to go as far north as KWI, but as they are indeed smol birds that IMPALE THEIR PREY ON THORNS, I think we can declare Hickey a shrike. 

One fun fact from AllAboutBirds.com (the Cornell Lab of Ornithology site): 

“The Northern Shrike, like other shrikes, kills more prey, if it can, than it can immediately eat or feed to nestlings. Such behavior was characterized by early observers as “wanton killing,” but the Northern Shrike stores excess prey to eat later. Storing food is an adaptation for surviving periods of food scarcity”

Here is a Northern Shrike from sub-Arctic Canada:

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i HOPE i didn't just send this ask twice like a dumbass but. more terror birdsonas pls. we need to know. we need answers.

Oooh well this is going to be a fun one. I’ll have to think about some more characters, but here is one that I’ve had in mind for a while now: 

This is the Bluethroat, a thrush commonly of Europe and Arctic Alaska. In summer he can be found near the Beaufort Sea (for which the hand of Franklin reached…hehehe). I just love his little cravat. 

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Last one for the night - Henry Collins!

After much consideration as to which diving bird Collins would be, I had to go with the Thick-billed Murre - a very skilled diver indeed.

 Fun fact from allaboutbirds.com:

“The Thick-billed Murre is one of the deepest underwater divers of all birds, regularly descending to depths of more than 100 m, and occasionally below 200 m. It can remain submerged for more than three minutes.”