#common magpie

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Simplifed bird #2 - common magpie

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Magpie!

Reference photo by Michael Nordeman

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[wanderrealms]

I have so many magpies (real and shapeshifter) in my stories so far that I should buy a book focusing on them.

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Pie bavarde - Si elle doit sa réputation de voleuse à un opéra de Rossini. En réalité, il n'en est rien, et elle est très méfiante des objets qui lui paraissent insolites.

Lieu : Chez moi, Hauts-de-France

[uwmspeccoll]

A Corvidae Feathursday

Here are some more wood-engraved birds -- both black and white and hand-colored --by British author and wood engraver Eric Fitch Daglish (1892-1966) from his 1948 publication Birds of the British Isles, published in London by J. M. Dent & Sons in 1948 in a limited edition of 1500 copies. Today we display all the corvids from this volume, from top to bottom:

Common Raven (Corvus corax)

Western Jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)

Red-billed Chough (pronounced "chuf"; Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)

Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) 

Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)

Rook (Corvus frugilegus)

 Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)

 Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)

Read more about this book plus view a hand-colored engraving of a Hoopoe here.

View more Feathursday posts.

[michaelnordeman]

Birds of Holland park. London, England (February, 2020).

[birdblues]

Common Green Magpie

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[2601/11080] Common green magpie - Cissa chinensis

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Corvoidea Family: Corvidae (corvids) Genus: Cissa (green magpies)

Photo credit: Rajkumar Das via Macaulay Library

[takeapeck]

so apparently I now have kestrels nesting here???? I didn't know they were this floofy

[hyperiionvii]

junior illustration final: the seven deadly sins

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[kavohh707]

My personal highlights - 2023 - part 7:

Songbirds. They are everywhere, mostly small and fast and I am still happy with every good picture I get.

(And yes, I know crow are songbirds as well, but they get their own post)

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Show rats

Here rats

(pls ignore the very empty cage i’m stripping it rn and they’re refusing to play outside of it lol)

acorn, magpie, and spider :]

[kotori777]

Bird study 📖