Meet the New Colossal Cover Artist: Lisa Ericson

It's a beautiful day and you are an Apocalypse Goose

A Himalayan Griffon Vulture, the second largest of the Old World Vultures, showing off its fake eyes.

Photo husein_latif

happy pride. here’s the link to wikipedias list of birds displaying homosexual behavior

reblog to "delight in homosexuality" like the Guianan cock-of-the-rock

[image id: a wikipedia screenshot including a picture of an orange bird with black tips on wings and tail and a fan shaped protrustion from the crown and bill. below the image text reads 'male Guianan cock-of-the-rock, distributed in the mountainous regions of Guyana, eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana and northern Amazonian Brazil, "delight in homosexuality" with almost 40 percent engaging in a form of homosexual activity and a small percentage never copulating with females.' end image id]

pictures sourced from here, which i will fully admit i clicked on because i saw the words "sauropod vertebra picture of the week" and was so fascinated by this niche that of course i had to check it out,

but apparently a lot of birds have excessively long tracheae that just like.... coils around the top of the lungs?

WHY????????????????????????????????????? (i am now learning that the answer why is that so their calls make them sound Bigger than they actually are)

i feel like so many birds just have uzumaki nightmare shit just like... going on inside of them at all times. like hummingbird & woodpecker skulls!

this is EGREGIOUS. You stop that!!!

Hummingbird tongues wrapping around their skulls used to be such a popular "cool fact" in animal books, glad to see him (the cool fact) thrive on tumblr

Eastern Screech Owl, Megascops asio, mother with chick in nest, family Strigidae, Eastern U.S.

photograph by MJSchocken

I‘m in love!

Hands down my fave thing about hurricane season is when zoos put their birds in the bathroom to protect them from the wind and we get images like this

Photo from St Augustine Alligator Farm

omg, I had no idea zoos did this!

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another favorite of mine

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Below the poll is a series of animal images labeled A through J. A is the least close to the birds we have today; J is the closest. If you encountered these animals in the wild, which would you call birds? If you pick a higher up option, then that means you consider all the below ones birds as well - so if you pick A, then BCDEFGHIJ are all birds. If you pick J, only J is a bird.

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B:

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E:

F:

G:

H:

I:

J:

PLEASE REBLOG THIS SO IT CAN LEAVE PALAEOBLR. I NEED PEOPLE WHO DON'T RECOGNIZE THESE ANIMALS ON SIGHT TO VOTE.

I apologize to all of y'all with vision impairments for whom this poll is inaccessible. Alas, this is an experiment, and I cannot name the taxa. Thank you.

All alt text includes artist attribution; I did not make these pictures myself.

Birbentines! (by teylor smirl)

@todaysbird I’m sure you’ve seen this but it’s amazing

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All the cards are heart shaped.

Card 1: an owl stares at the viewer, waving. They are sending a heart and saying, “JOIN ME IN AN ETERNITY OF SOLITARY NIGHT. we can eat mice.”

Card 2: A shy penguin is holding a pebble and sending the viewer a heart and saying, “Hello Yes, would you like a very nice pebble And also to be with me forever? it is very. nice.”

Card 3: A raven or crow is glaring fondly at the viewer and sending a heart. They are saying, “I HAVE COMMITTED YOUR FACE POSITIVELY TO THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF MY EXPANSIVE CLAN. enjoy a lifetime of shiny trash.”

Card 4: A small round bird is sending a heart and yelling with all its might, “I LIKE YOU MORE THAN BREAD BUT CAN I STILL PLEASE HAVE SOME BREAD. PLEASE. BREAD. Now BREAD.”

on the thirteenth day of christmas my true love was investigated for his many flagrant violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918

Spring is upon us

BIRDS: EXPOSED

SERATONIN: RISING

Birbentines! (by teylor smirl)

@todaysbird I’m sure you’ve seen this but it’s amazing

Lily Seika Jones aka Rivulet Paper (American, b. 1989, San Antonio, TX, USA, based Seattle, WA, USA) - The Anemoi, 2018, Paintings: Watercolors