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Lets be silly with mama

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Cornell is hosting a free webinar on making your windows safer for birds on May 14th, 2025 (you can register here) - attendees are entered to win $500 in bird-proofing products!

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If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

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its so windy my poor poor chickens are being blown around like dry leafs they look like this

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The robins outside my calculus room have been beefing with the killdeer across the street… so sad why must two baddies fight

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I have not forgotten anyone’s bird assignments! I have been busy trying to get an apartment. Bird assignments coming soon!

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Success! 6/12 eggs hatched this time. First successful duck hatching! The 40$ difference in incubators is so worth it. I only got two chicks from 36 eggs with the last one.

One appears to be a purebred Black Swedish, from our hen and the drake we rescued. One also looks like his mother might be Big Quack since he’s literally twice the size of the other ducklings. One more I believe is the product of our Buff and Pekin? Only yellow one so far. Updates coming!

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Hot take but TERFs and Zionists and shit shouldn’t be welcomed. Anywhere. I don’t care if “this is a bird group, we need to keep it welcoming and free of politics!!” Get the fuck out of here.

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Immature glaucous-winged gull I drew today, one of my favorite local birds

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Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) chick, family Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, WA, USA

photograph by J. Bonello | USFWS

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So uh... Birds-of-Paradise glow

From the article:

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than initially meets the human eye. For the first time, scientists have discovered these spectacular avians absolutely glowing with gorgeousness in a dark room. Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) combed through the available archives and found that all 37 core bird-of-paradise species in Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia are biofluorescent. Only a few fringe family members fail to glow under ambient UV or blue light.

Most male birds tested possess brightly fluorescent heads, napes, bills, and plumes that glimmer with green or greenish-yellow hues. Some even have fluorescent legs, feet, tails, and rings around their eyes. Many of these mysteriously colorful patches are starkly bordered by dark feathers with no fluorescence, and these parts of the body are often used in mating displays, when males flap, flutter, sway, bop, hang, and pose in an elaborate, attention-seeking dance that varies from species to species.

Note that this is different than bioluminescence. This is like those glow-in-the-dark stickers. They mention puffin beaks glowing under UV light.

(Check out the glasses they gave them in the second article!)

@todaysbird @alithographica

(Completely shameless advert notice: In my fics when I talk about Rito having UV markings on their beaks, this is pretty much what I"m talking about.)

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I will always love animals I just saw a picture of a bird I didn’t know existed and teared up bc it was cute and pretty

The red cheeks r so cute

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Fun Fact Friday: Wattled Ploughbill

Image Credit: Dubi Shapiro

Fun Fact! The Wattled Ploughbill(Eulacestoma nigropectus) is monogamous(meaning they mate for life) and both partners care for young. They build cup shaped nests high in the canopy!

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Birding from my front steps

Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)

Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)

Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)

January 24 (dove) and February 3, 2025

Southeastern Pennsylvania