Nature Space (And Yelling)

Sambar Deer (Rusa unicolor) and Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta Vagabunda) - Sariska National Park, India 

Photographed by Naveen Kumar Singh‎

I love killdeer so much. Truly. However they are some of the dumbest creatures on the planet someone help them

hottest gravel known to man = wonderful place to rear children

One of those design competition shows but it is killdeer versus mourning doves

Killdeer “nest” on a football field in Sacramento, CA

Mourning dove “nesting” on a garden hoe

crosant

#SHAPES SHAPES SHAPES

Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3

In case anyone could use this right now.

This is so precious oh my god. There’s more under the cut. Also click HERE for full-sized pics and also a vid of a chicken screaming at the wind XD 

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https://twitter.com/Amandycat/status/1232363229264961540

Omg I’ve got a story that’s almost identical to this!!

So back in July of 2021 we got a call from our neighbors about a random chicken that showed up in their yard, they assumed she was ours because we have a lot of chickens but I’d never seen this bird before

She’s unbelievably sweet and cuddly and we’re thinking that no way this isn’t someone’s beloved pet

So the next day I went out and drove to every neighbor to ask “hey this this your chicken?”

Nobody has any idea, my mom asks around on local pages but still, nothing

So for context my neighborhood is pretty big, not that many people but lots and lots of land. If this chicken didn’t come from any of our neighbors then she would had to have travel miles, which out here in rural Colorado where we are constantly surrounded by hawks, coyotes and raccoons would have been extremely unlikely.

She was also a bit malnourished, implying that she might have been out on her own for some time before being found. I also quickly realized something else about her, she is blind.

Not entirely blind but damn near close as her right eye is completely blind



Now the reason this has rendered her almost completely blind is thanks to a funny little quirk of chicken anatomy. Their right eyes are always near sighted and the left is always far sighted, this is the result of turning themselves in the egg so that the right eye is exposed to light through the shell, while the left is not, because it’s directed toward the body. So while she can see things far away just fine, everything that’s remotely close to her is a blur, making it difficult for her to navigate and eat

So we took her into our own flock, I named her Weah because I asked her for her name, since I didn’t know if she previously had one, and her response was “wwwwwrrraaah”. Getting her integrated into the flock was difficult, the other hens picked on her a lot and there wasn’t much she could do to defend herself, with no other options we decided to put her in the bantam coop, with it’s lone resident

This is Ash, a serama hen who we had gotten with a rooster, Cocktail, as a breeding pair. However after Cocktail’s passing she was left on her own

Now this didn’t bother Ash too much as she’d found a way to leave her coop whenever she wanted, even for a bird of her stature she was quite capable of holding her own in the main population

So here we are with two birds who couldn’t be any more different: Weah, a shy, clingy, visually impaired sex link, and Ash, a feisty, dominant, independent serama. It was the perfect storm.

Weah clung to Ask like glue pretty much from day one and Ash seemed surprisingly chill with the whole affair. In fact, she even started guiding Weah around while walking on her blind side, showing her around and helping her not get lost

Ash is very protective of Weah and will often tidbit for her and court her, Weah will call out to Ash whenever she’s not near by and will get distressed when she cannot find her

They’re both living happily in the larger special needs coop now, always together. Weah is doing much better with the help of her seeing eye girlfriend and has adjusted wonderfully!

So to conclude, if I had a nickel for every time there was a mutually beneficial lesbian relationship in my coop where one was saved by the other, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s kinda weird it’s happened twice

when the sun

gret

“Jurassic park” except it’s realistic and they can’t clone anything older than 1 million years because dna degradation so it’s a bunch of recently extinct birds brought back to life and yet the same amount of chaos carnage and destruction occurs as well as the same amount of wonder because Irony

Remember this park would have, among other things:

- moas

- elephant birds

- dodos & Rodrigues solitaire

- terror birds

- mihirungs

- adzebills

- Sylviornithidae

- great auk

- mobs of passenger pigeons

- moa-nalo

- mole ducks (reverse platypus)

- giant swan

- giant marabou-style storks

- club-winged ibises

- teratorns

- giant Caribbean hawks

- stilt owls, including giant ones

- and so many many passerines

To everyone pointing out Haast’s Eagle: i legitimately thought I had put that in the list. Of course that would be in this. It and terror birds are the primary eaters of humans in this scenario

To the people suggesting we add mammals: no. Birds only. Dinosaurs only. I’m trying to prove a point.

some of the scenes I had in mind:

My favorite bird has got to be the short-tailed pygmy tyrant cause first of all look at it:

But second of all this lil fella is "töpökääpiötypäkkö" in Finnish and that shit is just fun to say

@roll-thedice:

Explaining it would be really hard, and I'm kinda self-conscious about my voice (weird for someone who's done streaming I know), but I found this site that does text-to-speech in Finnish and it actually works:

OH GOSH ITS NAME MEANS STUMPY-DWARF-SHORTFATTY.

And typäkkö, shortfatty, is a scientific name for certain birds. (or short-plumb or short-round, however you want to express that this birb is rotund)

oh BTW here's my teeny tiny list of my favourite pigeon species

White breasted ground dove

Nicobar pigeon

Cinnamon headed green pigeon

Yellow footed green pigeon

Pheasant pigeon

Yellow breasted fruit dove

Many coloured fruit dove

Crowned pigeon

Reblogging for nicobar pigeon awareness (the best pigeon)

I love how many of these are named exactly what they are. Like, yep, that pigeon sure looks like a pheasant, and that fruit dove has many colors, this all checks out.

Common Raven (Corvus corax) teasing a gull (Larus spp) - series by Sandra Gilchrist

According to the photographer, the raven eventually left and the gull seemed no worse for wear after the interaction. 

#seagulls are so funny they look so offended by everything for gods most annoying soldiers

Sparkling Violetear (Colibri coruscans), male displaying, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Peru

Photograph by Alexis Aguilar

I'm so sorry, I'm absolutely losing it. I went to my neighbor's today to find out what I would need to do to care for their puppy this weekend, and This Fucking Thing appeared ajgldfkjhfg she is a turkey hen. you know, the birds who quite famously look like this

with no feathers on their heads, or very little, mostly along the spine/top of the head... and this gal just rocks up with not only a LITTLE bit of feathering, but almost completely covered. Even her WATTLE had feathers.

I'mc rying

i said, what the hell is going on here? and they were like

her name's Fluffy

Somebody please get this animal to reproduce. I gotta see what a male version of that looks like.

Stop going behind leaves! You are the size of a leaf! When you do that I cannot see you!