Wet Leaves and Feathers

Tea, birds, and other things. But mostly birds. If you know my offline name please don't use it on tumblr. They/them/their or ey/em/eir

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[green-grinning-glitter-ghosts]

do you ever watch a movie and it’s like. I’m too aro for this

[footlongdingledong]

idk man not to sound like a cartoon hippie but if your entirrrrre blog and dash is about how the world sucks and everyones bigoted i think you are going to give yorself brain worms

[footlongdingledong]

"ah but all of this is important and true and if i dont reblog all of this important stuff waga baga THE WORMS! THATS WORMS! THE BRAIN WORMS!

[footlongdingledong]

i do not think you are doing activism chief i think what you are doing is sitting in your room flagellating yourself expecting something to happen

[soymoss]

starling

[sevenmoreminutes]

kurtis conner video: This Conservative Influencer is Crazy

drew gooden video: The us governments obsession with integrating ai into every facet of our daily lives is going to bring about the collapse of society if we don’t get of our ass and start taking action

danny gonzalez video: Buying Food on Ebay

[sevenmoreminutes]

eddy burback video: I did the russian sleep experiment for a month

[pumpkan]

Me: waiting for any form of public transport

Rain: starts

Some deep dark part of my brain that never forgot the first night vale episode: 👀🕐🚌🌧🌧🕐🕐🚌🌧

[sunfish-visions]

Bismarck Kingfisher- Rediscovered 2025

[herpsandbirds]

(DISCLAIMER: no birds were harmed in these photos, they were caught and banded under the appropriate permits for research; these were pics from my Field Ornithology class at Itasca State Park, MN. Everything was done by professionals and/or under professional supervision and the birds were released safely.)

Ovenbird girl again, here is the handsome little guy (can confirm he was a male, we checked) that helped me fall in love with the humble Ovenbird. I have many more pics of Ovenbirds and a variety of other songbirds that my class banded, it was an amazing experience to get so close to these animals.

[unpickled-olive-deactivated2025]

all the food classification discourse is phenotype-based and no more sophisticated than ancient greek zoology.

"pizza is a flat bread with toppings baked on"?

let me guess: you define a man as a featherless biped, don't you plato?

no, we need the taxonomical model. food evolves and adapts and descends. it fills niches that cause it to diverge from its ancestors and converge with other, unrelated species. unlike most animals, food is capable of horizontal gene transfer, making taxonomical divisions less linear.

american pizza (Focaccius rotunda) is descended from an italian baked flatbread dish. deep dish pizza (F. r. patina) is a subspecies of american pizza which evolved in the american midwest. it is taxonomically unrelated to common species of casserole in the area (and casserole is not a taxonomic category but a polyphleytic grouping, much like fish and crabs)

[unpickled-olive-deactivated2025]

"sushi is a burrito" yeah and a bat is a bird.

[unpickled-olive-deactivated2025]

hotdog is actually genetically in the ramen clade for reasons scientists don't understand yet

[morganathewitch]

Moss and clover, Skottvång Sweden.

[firstfullmoon]

But this morning I stepped outside and the wind nearly knocked me down. This morning I stepped outside and the blue nearly

crushed me. This morning this planet is so loud with itself— its winds, its insects, its grackles and mourning doves— that I can hardly hear my own lamentations. This planet. All its grooved bark, all its sand of quartz and bones

and volcanic glass, all its creeping thistle lacing the yards with spiny purple. I’m trying to come down soft today. I’m trying to see this place even as I’m walking through it.

— Catherine Pierce, from “Planet”

[latter-day-saint-nick]

I'm really tired of people outside the UK claiming that JK Rowling's bigotry doesn't extend to trans men and non-binary people. I can't get an autism diagnosis, because I'm scared that it will be used against me to deny me the healthcare I need, as Rowling and her ilk have been spreading the rhetoric that transmascs are just confused autistic girls who are too stupid to know their own gender.

[trashyeggroll]

tumblr is great and all but ya’ll are missing the woman in one of my cat fb groups that has birthed her own tier 1 meme

[soup-mother]

Step back everyone. This post requires the delicate touch of an annoying gimmick blog

[sometimesanequine]

on it boss!

[horsefigureoftheday]

Breyer #712325 Josiah

[spector]

a deer is like a forest horse if you think about it

[spector]

(nodding sagely and correcting the whiteboard with a very squeaky marker) a deer is like a forest whale if you think about it

[herpsandbirds]

Protecting 715 acres of public land from SpaceX

This is what happens when a trillionaire-owned company starts treating public land like its own testing grounds.

@uriel.cinema is taking you straight to the frontlines in Brownsville, Texas, where @spaceX has rapidly expanded across a rare coastal ecosystem, including land that belongs to the public and is meant to be protected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

They described their first site as a “small testing facility.” But it’s become something much larger: a growing industrial footprint in a crucially important habitats for endangered ocelots, sea turtles, and migratory birds.

As if they didn’t have enough, they now want to take 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge for additional dangerous testing that is literally killing wildlife and destroying plants.

Center for Biological Diversity

The Center for Biological Diversity works through science, law and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hoveri

[thejewellerybox]

Gannet Diving necklace by Rie Taniguchi