Check out this awesome (angry) Great-crested flycatcher we banded a couple days ago!! 😍 This is honestly a really cool picture of the inside of a birds mouth. I recommend zooming in on the picture if you can!
Take note of the whisker like projections around the mouth. Those are called rictal bristles and they are actually modified feathers! Birds like flycatchers use them for catching insects in midair! They work by sensing bugs and sending a signal to brain to snap the mouth closed! It’s so fast that we consider it to be like a subconscious reflex!
Instead of Raph I nominate my boy Monet in being the rage turtle…but like in a good my cousin is possibly a gangster but he’s is only an ass to assholes kinda way