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This is the most devastatingly accurate birding meme I've ever seen, bar none

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This might be my favorite bird photo I’ve ever taken. It looks like a motivational poster your aunt would have in her home office with a caption like “Always Be Yourself”

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And I'm all out of Stones

Linocut print of a Ruddy Turnstone

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the LA river

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Apple blossom seat, boots with the fur the ornithologists looking at her she drinks nectar and she's a bird yeah she's a P-U-F-F-L-E-G

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EXPLANATIONS:

Oilbird

Oilbird

- Nocturnal cave-dwelling freaks alone in their genus, family, and order. They have the eyes of a deep-sea fish and huge whiskers. Their feet barely function. They echolocate but not to find food. They eat nothing but fruit. Their flesh is so oily they were made into lamp oil like sperm whales.

- Pollrunner note: what if a bird was a bat.

Flamingo

- theyre just so pink... unnatural color for a bird to be

- Pollrunner note: Flamingos in general, not just the submitted American flamingo, are extremophiles. I’d highly recommend skimming the Wikipedia pages of the American flamingo and other members of the flamingo family in general. There’s this popular post that details how weird and wonderful flamingos are!

https://www.tumblr.com/bogleech/673222141431463936/revretch-iamthekaijuking-revretch

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source

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Bicknell's Thrush world

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Everyone wish me a happy birthday please

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“there’s no song of the summer yet” WRONG the song of the summer is the haunting call of the common loon echoing across the lake to its lover at dusk for the 27th year in a row

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Literally like new. If not for the slight scuffing on the join metal you'd never know. Anyway can't wait to get bug spray and sunscreen all over them again

My son EL 8,5x42 who has every disease

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Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) observation by eleggua

happy pride

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👁️👁️

My son EL 8,5x42 who has every disease

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EXPLANATIONS:

- These big guys are the only known vertebrates whose diet consists of 70–90% bones. They swallow bones whole. They bite through bones. They can digest bones because of their insanely powerful stomach acid. They'll drop bones from great heights onto the rocks below to break them and expose the marrow inside. They'll do the same thing with tortoises, which can be nearly as heavy as the vulture itself. They also dye their own feathers red, which is metal af.

- These big guys are the only known vertebrates whose diet consists of 70–90% bones. They swallow bones whole. They bite through bones. They can digest bones because of their insanely powerful stomach acid. They'll drop bones from great heights onto the rocks below to break them and expose the marrow inside. They'll do the same thing with tortoises, which can be nearly as heavy as the vulture itself. They also dye their own feathers red, which is metal af.

Oilbird

- Nocturnal cave-dwelling freaks alone in their genus, family, and order. They have the eyes of a deep-sea fish and huge whiskers. Their feet barely function. They echolocate but not to find food. They eat nothing but fruit. Their flesh is so oily they were made into lamp oil like sperm whales.

- Pollrunner note: what if a bird was a bat.

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Gay Hooded Warblers

In 1988, a researcher spotted a male Hooded Warbler (which the researcher named Y) building and sitting on a nest within the territory of another male (which the researcher called X). This was unusual for several reasons.

Male warblers rarely build nests and tend not to sit on the eggs or nestlings. Plus, X was a fierce singer who usually defended his territory from other males!

Y and X cared for their nest together, feeding nestlings. It’s not clear where those nestlings came from- it’s possible that another Hooded Warbler laid eggs in an act of same-species brood parasitism, basically leaving her eggs for someone else to raise. The nestlings might have been Brown-headed Cowbirds, which also practice brood parasitism. The fate of this nest is unknown.

A month later, Y turned up on the territory of another nearby male (Z). Z and Y had a nest with one Brown-headed Cowbird and two baby Hooded Warblers. Z would bring food to the nest, feeding his waiting mate and nestlings.

It’s tough to conclusively label these birds, but it’s pride month, so.  Gay warblers!

Original article (anyone can access):

Niven, D. (1993). Male-Male Nesting Behavior in Hooded Warblers. The Wilson Bulletin, 105(1), 190-193. Retrieved from https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v105n01/p0190-p0193.pdf 

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Long-tailed Silky Flycatcher (Ptiliogonys caudatus), EAT A TASTY BERRY!!!, family Ptiliogonatidae, order Passeriformes, Panama

photograph by Ignacio Yúfera

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["No Scrubs" intro line] Otididae is a kind of bird and is also known as a Bustard