Bleach Stains & Hiking Boots

[hoot-alex]

[marinella-ela]

[herpsandbirds]

DO NOT PUT YHE BIRDS IN YOUR MOUTH!!!

[sparkbirdmusic]

you have permission to start birding without knowing anything about identifying birds

[brambleshadow11]

As someone who recently picked up birding, and have been super casual about it. I second this. I've just been enjoying looking at the birds around me and learning how to notice them more. Even if I can't identify anything, or I'm unsure because two or more species look similar, I still enjoy just.... Watching nature come and go (including while I'm working at my day job on the 4th floor in a downtown office. So many birds on the windowsills and I don't have time to identify them. Just noticed and appreciate them!)

[art-and-things-of-beauty]

Watercolor studies of Griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) by Georges Frédéric Rötig (1873-1961) 25 x 32,5 cm.

[todaysbird]

the red-headed lovebird is a small species of parrot native to africa. they are green overall with a distinct coral-red face that gives them their moniker. females’ facial coloring is more orange than males, whose faces are closer to a true red. they have unusual nesting habits - red-headed lovebirds nest within termite mounds, with females digging up to 30 cm (12 inches) into the termite’s nest to create a safe cavity for her own offspring. unlike many other lovebirds, they are rare in captivity; they are typically nervous, flighty birds around people, and are notoriously challenging to breed in captivity.

[findingmindely]

Another fluffy bird

[kedreeva]

They were ready

[video description: two peachicks stand side by side in a white tub. The camera person very seriously asks "are you guys ready for Roach Time?" while the babies whine pathetically and stand up tall begging. A small cascade of roach nymphs rains into the tub and both babies immediately whip around to begin horfing them down as fast as birdly possible in dead vocal silence. Their beaks make very loud tapping noises as they trip over each other to get the roaches faster. Once the roaches are gone, the camera zooms in on the female peachick, whose throat is distended with roach nymphs she is trying to choke down by making horrible raspy slurping noises and motions with her face, because she is full of only two things, roaches and hubris. There is one whiny peep from off screen and the camera cuts out mid horf. /Description]

[herpsandbirds]

Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise (Lophorina niedda), male displaying to a fine ass female, family Paradisaeidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to the Birds Head Peninsula of New Guinea

photograph by Dustin Chen

[herpsandbirds]

Southern Ground Hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeateri), family Bucorvidae, order Bucerotiformes, Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

photograph by Lesley de Reuck

[aquariumpacific]

Who are generally more well-behaved? Seals or sea lions?

This might help put things into perspective. 😅

But in all honesty, our animals are amazing! Each individual has unique challenges and strengths, but they are all good pinns.

[marinella-ela]

[pennaraptor]

he’s not very bird shaped

[thepioden]

My brother in law recently became a veterinarian and it has really driven the point home as to how fucking bonkers veterinary medicine is. We don't expect human physicians to really know much outside of their own specialty - a dentist, an otolaryngologist, and a maxillofacial surgeon are three totally different dudes. Meanwhile a veterinarian at a wildlife rehab center is doing orthopedic surgery on a hawk and then doing rounds on baby hedgehogs in the hedgehog NICU and administering antibiotics to a ratsnake. And he also knows how to perform surgical interventions on a cow! What the fuck! Those are all totally, wildly different kinds of animal!!

Shout out to veterinarians, they know Too Much.

[mikkeneko]

I always think about that one post that was like "how come the surviving doctors in zombie apocalypse stories are always veterinarians" and the reply "because veterinarians make 'not getting bitten by their patients' a core skill"

[marinella-ela]

[left-hanging]

his greed sickens me

[comradestoner]

[spicychickenfingerings-deactiva]

With he’s friends