#Passer

[herpsandbirds]

Desert Sparrow (Passer simplex), male, family Passeridae, order Passeriformes, Morocco

photograph by Dušan Brinkhuizen

[alonglistofbirds]

[2934/11080] Dead sea sparrow - Passer moabiticus

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Passeroidea Family: Passeridae (true sparrows)

Photo credit: Yoav Perlman via Macaulay Library

[vhscorp]

Les années passent, nos êtres chers trépassent et nous passons aussi, c’est la vie…

V. H. SCORP

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

House Sparrow for Birbruary, which exists to raise awareness of Songbird Survival

Original reference photo by August Davidson-Onsgard

[snototter]

A male house sparrow (Passer domesticus) with a fly in Biebrza National Park, Poland

by Charles Sharp

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

photo source

[burnouts3s3]

If the Inquisitor lets the Chargers die and brings Iron Bull along during the Trespasser DLC, Iron Bull will turn hostile and must be killed. Then, Solas will mock the Inquisitor for that.

[tiifu-ndovu]

[cheminer-poesie-cressant]

source : @cheminer-poesie-cressant

nous ne sommes faits que de passages et nous passons notre temps à traverser ; rien ici pour nous retenir, pour nous garder, pas même la main de l’être aimé, pas même la beauté la plus grande, pas même la parole la plus céleste ; nous finirons quand même par passer

© Pierre Cressant

(lundi 7 novembre 2022)

[reallypheelingit]

Happy fat dragon friday!! made it just in time dsfa

When I did my Bear Tournament earlier this year, I realized I didn't have any good drawings of Passer, so here is the big lug themself c:

They keep a journal on the wildlife they've seen throughout their journey on Sornieth, feeling the calling from Earth to Wind, dragging their less enthusiastic twin brother along (who had little choice but to follow, given they're each other's charges and Passer was determined to travel either way.)

If i had a nickel for every fat m pose guardian in my lair who studied nature id have..three nickels dgsfd

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Gender Passing Pride Flags

Cis-passing Pride Flag

Cis-passing (or simply passing): a transgender person’s ability to be correctly perceived as the gender they identify as and beyond that, to not be perceived as transgender; to be passable as cisgender.

Trans-passing Pride Flag

Trans-passing (or non-passing): a transgender person's ability to be perceived as transgender; or a person who is perceived as trans despite not being one.

The flag format is based on straight-passing flag. Image descriptions pending.

[herpsandbirds]

Who is this little guy? Paris, France. September 2024

Bird ID - Paris, France:

I had a really beautiful day once, when I was 16, sitting in the Jardin du Luxembourg, feeding these guys buttered crepes. (As an adult, I do not recommend feeding wild birds people food.)

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus), male, family Passeridae, order Passeriformes.

[alonglistofbirds]

[2945/11080] Desert sparrow - Passer simplex

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Passeroidea Family: Passeridae (true sparrows)

Photo credit: Christoph Moning via Macaulay Library

[dire-vulture]

@crying-dragons and here are my XXY dragons too haha. less variety than my XYYs and for the most part even simpler, but I still think they're neat c:

[ornithological]

eurasian tree sparrows (passer montanus), ireland

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 -Te Upoko-o-te-Ika-a-Māui

The Head of Māui's Fish - specifically, the area around New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, deriving from the legend of the fishing up of the island by the demi-god Māui. The harbour is the mouth - an area of reddish-purple rock facing onto Cook Strait was the bait Māui used.

Wellington's placement makes it one of the windiest cities in the world, and the narrow strait and howling gales makes for complicated tides and a shocking number of shipwrecks. The geology makes for some fun times too - the Haowhenua (Māori for 'land swallower') earthquake around 1460 AD raised the harbour area by 6 meters, turning some islands into the Miramar Peninsula. The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake moved a 150km stretch of the Wairarapa fault 20m along and 8m up. in some respects this was convinient timing, since the city had been desperately short of flat land at the time, and now part of the harbour wasn't harbour anymore. It's now the central business district of the city.

Every public building in New Zealand we went into had a warning plaque that the building was earthquake prone - one of the museums in wellington had that, BUT also suggested, if the quake was a particularly big one, you might want to head to the top floor rather than out into the street. Because Wellington is also tsunami prone. The 1855 quake produced one that reached 11m above sealevel.

The hills are also festooned with delightfully eccentric architecture, and more than a few funicular lifts so people can actually get to their homes from street level. One person had a funicular installed because their dog was getting elderly and struggled with the stairs.

Most of the species I saw were along the shoreline - at the harbour and ferry terminal in the city, out around the edges of the Miramar Peninsula, and out on Cook Strait at Pariwhero/Red Rocks.

The geology at Pariwhero is quite interesting - much of the basement rock in New Zealand is greywacke, a dark sandstone derived from turbidite deposits acculmulated at the edge of the Australian tectonic plate. At Pariwhero there are also deposits of argillite, a finer-grained rock quite useful for stone tools. And basalt - but the volcanic rocks are 50 million years older than the greywacke and argillite surrounding them. That's because the basalt was originally a set of seamounts - underwater volcanoes - scraped off the Pacific Plate as it subducts under what would one day be New Zealand, buried 10-15km deep, and pushed back to the surface again as more and more stuff gets piled up on the accretionary wedge and the entire area gets folded over double and concertinaed. Most of the colour in the local rocks is the result of iron leaching out of the basalt over tens of millions of years, and the argillite was deposited in the lee of the seamounts.