Sawtistic mutual

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, Florida, USA

photograph by Mark Smith

A Wild Turkey takes suet from a birdfeeder in the eastern United States.

photograph by Courtney Celley | USFWS

"After receiving a tip about a family of Burrowing Owls on the eastern edge of Cheyenne, a photographer rushed to the location in late June. The owlets seemed nearly ready to leave their burrows. Over the years, the photographer has perfected a method using a GoPro on a small tripod, set to take a photo every 5 seconds. They leave the camera behind, allowing the owls to feel comfortable. The challenge lies in the long wait to see if the effort pays off. This shot was taken on June 28th."

📷 Peter Arnold

Cedar Waxwings by jocelynefeizo1 http://ift.tt/1RM3Kk0

#do cedar waxwings ever eat anything besides photogenic red berries#do cedar waxwings ever do anything besides eating photogenic red berries#is there any way this child can get its parent to stop feeding it photogenic red berries

watch how many berries I can cram into this other bird

Turkey vultures By: Michael P. L. Fogden From: Wildlife of the Deserts 1980

The Pillar, Stephen Gill

never soeak again

Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Denmark

photograph by Johnny Salomonsson

Incredible work by @gabrielagoniphoto on Instagram.

Sandhill Cranes in the fog

you'll notice yourself smiling with delight over things you once paid no attention to -

Get cubed. Idiot.

Genetic Animals is a minecraft mod made by Moki that replicates real genetics that determines the model's shapes and textures, allowing you to selectively breed animals just like in real life.

I made Loxley by finding generated chickens that were relatively close to the modern game bantam structure. It took many hundreds of generations. I started with extended black and yellow shanks because they were the easiest to work with. I introduced white skin at the same time I started working with blue and birchen. Introducing cuckoo was easy and my cuckoo line has consistently had the best type.

My birchen birds were by far the most difficult to create. First I had to find birchen, and I thought I did! But I just couldn't get rid of autosomal red, after working with the mod author we determined I was actually working with partridge the whole time. As soon as I figured this out I went out to find some proper birchen and confirmed it with the author first.

When I finally got those clean silver wing bars...boy was I happy! I haven't reintroduced charcoal yet because the shank and skin color textures aren't complete in the Patreon version (but it has the updated models).

Now that I had perfect cuckoo and birchen, I could create Loxley! So that's what I did, I crossed them until I got homozygous birchen and heterozygous barred just like Mr. Loxley.

It's not exactly a perfect visual recreation, as the textures in the Patreon version aren't quite finished, additionally the interaction of different genes isn't fully understood so Moki has to really dig to find what specific phenotypes look like. Genetically though- they're the same! I did it! I'm hoping I can convince Moki to update barred and birchen to reflect Loxley's black tail and wings in game.

Here's some cute blues with beards from my project as well. With Genetic Animals (namely the Patreon version) you can make chickens of any shape or size that occurs in real life! By supporting Moki and the other creators, you can learn about genetics and create your very own chickens! There's other animals too with their genomes mapped but all I care about is the chickens. I make modern game bantams.

Special feather care.

When I took this picture I was wondering a bit what this crow was doing, but looking at the pictures on my computer I noticed little specks on the feathers and zooming in I saw ants.

So my guess is that this crow was anting. Anting is a known behavior. Birds sit down in a place with lots of ants. Scientist think they do it because the ants secrete liquids that contain chemicals such as formic acid, which is sort of an insecticide and helps the bird to get rid of ectoparasites. There are other theories as well.

I'm really into bonaparte gulls lately, they're soooo small and so cute