#birds!

[jstor]

Apropos of nothing, here is a baker's dozen images of bird-shaped brooches ca. 6th century, from Frankish, Vendel, and Anglo-Saxon artisans. They all come from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, which includes nearly half a million open access images for everyone!

[wildspringday]

via togamin211

[rookrecurring]

I'm making a late start on Inktober and it's birds, it's just all birds

Day 9: Anna's Hummingbird

prompts

[bonewhiteglory]

saw red-winged blackbirds today 🥰

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

You made a comparison one time a while ago that has stuck with me: you said What if mammals all died out except for bats? Bats would still be mammals. It was a comparison to explain why birds are dinosaurs, but it hasn't left my mind and now I have so many ideas for art of a world where bats were able to diversify to the point that nonextinct dinosaur species have

Anyways have this possibly not biologically feasible future bat art I made if a bat could fill the niche of wandering albatross:

Imagine a world where bats and "nonavian" dinosaurs were the norm instead of birds and nonbat mammals

[athymelyreply]

His ass is NOT forklift certified

Spent multiple weeks working on this for a gift, he’s wonky as hell but I love him :))

[art-hoodie]

bridges

[tea-time-terrier]

Frosty birds my beloved.

[thecourtfinchster]

this is me btw. if you even care

[bettinalevyisdetermined]

Birdposting?

Birdposting.

This bird eats bones!

Hmmmmm.

[rookrecurring]

I painted this in 2012 and it somehow got reblogged again recently

please take this cleaned up version instead, I'm begging you

[wildspringday]

via virginiecognet

[sarcasticdolphin]

Rainbow Lorikeet

[ave-ari]

Putting birds on a jacket while at work

[pc98windowsdestruction]

I found the best copypasta:

Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?