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Life update heres what I'm doing :)

Working waaay to much (45+ hours a week shouldn't be normal but oh well)

Started the master naturalist program. A program in america that is a volunteer based citizen scientist program giving you the ability to learn environmental topics beyond a citizen level. Im im HTMN if you know you know :) would love to connect with other master naturalist's

Creating an oracle deck. Originally 30 cards all bird related is now probably closer to 100 ranging from weather events, ecoregions, plants, fungus, bugs you get the idea. All hyper specific to central texas meaning this card deck only works for central texas locals which is intentional!

Lots of spiritual experiences and building my first shadow book which has been quite fun

Doing a lot of plant and garden work. Learning to clean seeds, plant natives remove invasives (i hate you king ranch grass) and building a second pond in my chicken area.

Learning rainwater gardening, watershed strategies, and became certified for standard core water testing :>

Beginning to save money to eventually purchase my own land with my guy

Some fun projects im doing

- bird box monitoring

- seed harvesting and collecting

- invasive maintenance

- plant and tree identification

- CoCoRaS

- Water Site Sample collections and Analysis

- p o n d

- washing so many dogs

I also really think therians specifically should really partake in wildlife conservation outside touching grass. There are lots of methods and different skill sets for everyone my chapter program is designed to be inclusive for disabled bodies and those with low energy. I think its worth trying to become more attached to the wildlife around you its a vital thing we need to do so we take care of our local environments

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Bug blinkies from a request! Free to use with or without credit.

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Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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The Black-throated Magpie-Jay

Since there's only 6 birds left, I figured why not share some information about the finalists.

Let's start with the Black-throated Magpie-Jay:

This bird is found mostly in Mexico:

Its conservation status is Least Concern.

And here you can see it and hear its call:

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Blue Birds of Happiness

Blue is an extra-fun color for birds to be, because, as you may have heard, it is not created by a pigment. Blue feathers (and the blue scales on butterfly wings, and the blue irises of some humans) are structural, meaning that the color is created by the physical properties of the living tissue, which are arranged in such a way that they reflect the short wavelengths of blue light. Often this is paired with a dark pigment which absorbs other colors of light and makes the blue 'pop'. Look at all the tints and shades they can make!

Mountain bluebird

2. Himalayan bluetail

3. Blue nuthatch

4. Blue jay

5. Indigo bunting

6. Great blue turaco

7. Tree swallow

8. Ultramarine flycatcher

9. Hyacinth macaw

10. Glaucous-blue grosbeak

11. Belted kingfisher

12. Blue dacnis

13. Taiwan blue-magpie

14. Shining honeycreeper

15. Siberian blue robin

16. Blue whistling-thrush

17. African blue flycatcher

18. White-throated magpie jay

19. Black-naped monarch

20. Blue paradise flycatcher

21. Cerulean warbler

22. Woodland kingfisher

23. Indian peafowl

24. Little blue heron

25. Philippine fairy-bluebird

26. Pinyon jay

27. Blackish-blue seedeater

28. Plum-throated cotinga

29. Deep-blue flowerpiercer

30. Blue coua

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My first attempt to paint the beautiful black throated magpie Jay.

Birbfest 2025

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Black-throated Magpie-Jays (Cyanocorax colliei), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, NW Mexico

photograph via: Gulf Coast Bird Observatory

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do you have any cool rare corvids

i've tried so hard to answer this question and it just gets deleted every time, Tumblr please let the birds post

NOTE: rarity is subjective. I'm American, so a lot of these birds I've never seen, but that doesn't mean their populations are low or they're hard to find. I took rare to mean infrequently discussed/looked over in this case.

There's 100+ species of beautiful corvids, but hopefully this handful serves as a good sampler :)

Albino ravens of Vancouver, B.C.; there's a high population density of albino birds here, and birds carrying the genes keep having more albino babies!

Pied raven, a now-extinct color morph of the Common Raven

Magpie-jays!!! There's two species, white throated and black throated (this one is black throated), and these guys are total jesters. Masters of silliness. They also live in matriarchal flocks!

Javan green magpie! there's lots of colorful magpies (greens and blues!!), but I mentioned this fella specifically because they're sadly Critically Endangered at this time.

PIAPIAC!!! This African species of corvid resembles a lot of crows, but with a smooth, shiny beak & vibrant eyes that can be purple to bright pink!

Black-collared Jay - a handsome fella, not to be confused with his close relative, the White-collared Jay

the Unicolored Jay - pretty common in their range in Mexico, but a handsome feller nonetheless

TUFTED JAY!!! very silly head

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Bird #58 - the Black-Throated Magpie-Jay (LC)

These gorgeous corvids can be seen in western Mexico, though some escapees have established a population in San Diego. They are usually found in flocks, and are "impossible to overlook" when being noisy, especially with their ridiculously long tail and vibrant blue-ness.

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#114 Black-throated Magpie-Jay

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White-Throated Magpie Jay 💙🤍🖤

Please credit if you use my gifs!

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BOTD: Black-throated Magpie-Jay

Photo: Ad Konings

"Spectacular, large, and very long-tailed jay of tropical lowland forest, plantations, and semiopen areas with hedges and tall trees; ranges from humid to fairly dry areas. Usually in small groups and can be surprisingly inconspicuous if feeding quietly. At other times, unavoidably noisy and impossible to overlook. No similar species in range: note crest, black face and throat, and very long, white-edged tail that flows out behind in flight."

- eBird

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Very original and creative OC It's just a normal bird with a odd tail Very original

Ref sheet with no effects and such

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So last month I got hit by a car and died right. Which I didn't initially realize until I watched some guy haul my body into his pickup and drive off. Which, being that it's deep in rural Michigan, I assume means my body will make some venison jerky and maybe some wall decoration, and I'll be resigned to being one of hundreds of deer ghosts floating around Saginaw, which is w/e. But then I find out the guy works at a taxidermy shop or something, and he's actually pretty good at stuffing and mounting deer carcasses, which I come to find out when I find myself face to face with my old body in the shop window. So naturally, I figure since ghosts need to possess something to interact with the living world and etc etc etc the most logical thing to do is to possess my own body, since it's basically a statue of myself. And a little surprisingly, it actually fits like a glove. Like, since it's my body, it feels like stepping right back into place. So I get out of town and back to my herd, eventually. And that's where the trouble starts coming into it, because after I get settled again, I don't know how to explain to everyone else what feels so weird. Like since I can move my body and do everything I used to do, it's functionally the same, like nothing happened. Or it SHOULD be, so I don't know how to explain how it's NOT. But it's just hard to explain it to someone who's never been hit by a truck I guess

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meeting up

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