#flightless bird

[aiweirdness]

Asked Dalle-E to generate a set of labeled flightless birds. Not sure this is up to the standards of scientific illustration (or anything practical really) but they're kind of delightful.

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[herpsandbirds]

Stewart Island Southern Brown Kiwi (Apteryx australis lawryi), family Apterygidae, order Apterygiformes, is from Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand

ENDANGERED. (Only 20,000 individuals remain in the wild)

AKA Stewart Island Tokoeka

Flightless bird.

Unlike other kiwis, they are actually more diurnal (other kiwis are mainly nocturnal).

This kiwi subspecies often feeds on the beach, which is a rare activity for most other kiwis.

photographs by Michael Beckmann & Glen Fergus 

[elliottnotyet]

My flightless bird for Marchirp is the Cassowary 💙

[Image ID: drawing of a tall blue bird. End ID]

[wronghands1]

[sluggoonthestreet]

Having long lost the power of flight, the Spud Warbler (a.k.a. Potato Parrot) is limited to glaring at its prey.

[feather-bone]

Southern cassowary ! What a dinosaur of a bird.

[ID: an illustration of a large dark feathered flightless bird. It is shaped like an emu with huge feet and claws. A long bare blue neck with red wattles, and a bony crest on the top of its head. It is standing facing to the left on a yellow patterned polygon over a blue background. End.]

[toacody]

Bionicle MOC: Jhintro Bird

Metal kiwi bird of doom!

Source

Creator: Haotaus

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

King Dedede: You just triggered my flight or fight response.

King Dedede, eyes glowing red: AND I AM A FLIGHTLESS BIRD

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

Alright, listen, bud. You’re cute now, but you see Herb’s kid? He’s got his adult feathers already and he’s still sittin’ on feet. Promise me you won’t do that, kay? I mean, once in a while is okay…

Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)

Antarctica

Status: Near Threatened

Threats: overfishing, tourism, loss of sea ice

[thatlovinfeelin]

Flightless Bird Series Masterlist

Synopsis: Josephine Wilson Miller is alone for the first time in her life. She got married after her first year of college and became a housewife, but that life is gone now. So she runs to San Diego, to her childhood best friend Jake, where she meets the man who could very well be her salvation.

series warnings: unplanned pregnancy, just pregnancy in general, talks of infertility. past mental and emotional abuse. anxiety. talks of women's reproductive systems (idk)

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[intergalacticgoose]

[twopoppies]

Hi okay so I read flightless bird and idk how to feel about that fiction. Like I really liked it as a whole because of the feelings it made me go through but at the same time,  the triggering plot points were too much. Like idk how to feel about that. I am kind of in shambles rn uff

Hi, darling. Yeah, that’s a fic I’m not touching. It sounds way too upsetting for me. I have a tag with a discussion on the fic because people always ask about whether they should read it or not.

FLIGHTLESS BIRD (spoilers)

I hope you’re ok. There have been things I’ve read that were so upsetting that they pop up in my head years later. It’s not a good feeling.

[girl4music]

One might think a deputy sheriff officer crushing hard on and attempting to court a girl barely outside her teen years was an act of grooming. But they never play it that way. You never see Nicole harassing Waverly. You just see her watching her from across the room or whatever. She keeps at arms length from her until Waverly is the one to decide where she wants the relationship to go and practically does assault her. Or at least, she would have if Nicole wasn’t waiting for it.

But I really like how they show that despite Nicole being an older woman, an officer of the law at that, you only ever really see Waverly making the moves on her until Waverly is expecting reciprocation from her. Only then does Nicole make her own moves on her.

It’s not just the notion of consent that’s really well shown and communicated between them. It’s also the notions of respect and patience. So despite them getting together pretty quickly in the show, there is somewhat a sort of slow-burnishness to their romantic/sexual WLW representation because nothing gets all that heavy with them until they both want it.

And if anything, it really does show you what kind of person Nicole is with letting Waverly set their pace. When Waverly says “fast”, Nicole accompanies her and does her best to satisfy her wants and needs

I really love that dynamic between them. It is so Xena and Gabrielle early days. So experienced woman lover and baby gay vibes. But both Xena and Nicole show the level of care that they should always take with this because it would be a completely different story if either Xena or Nicole drove the relationship they have.

Nicole introduces herself and makes it known that she’s interested. But after that - nothing but space. It’s not until Waverly closes that space does she act.

That’s how you do positive old/young romances in TV.

[ungojirasapiente]

Gargantuavis, a large flightless bird from late cretaceous Europe. ------- Gargantuavis, una gran ave no-voladora del cretácico tardío en Europa.

[aut2imagineart]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! My piece for this year are a Mastodon and a Great Auk being friends. I chose these two species as they both lived in Massachusetts and (to the best I could research) existed at the same time.

As always, comments and critiques are welcome.

[marikedrawinge]

Dodo 2021