#i like birds <3

[wraenata]

Quick q! Whats your favorite bird! Do you have any fun facts about them

Ah the unanswerable question haha. I listed a bunch of my favorite birds here

But let me give some fun facts about some of them!

Toucans are relatives of the woodpecker family!

Pigeons and doves are, while adorable, not very smart. Their nests hardly qualify for nests. You can check out the subreddit r/mourningderps for lots of "how are you still a thriving species" posts!

Mourning doves make a sound when they fly away. You might think it's them vocalizing but its actually a sound produced by their wing beats called wing whistles! Here is a video I found if you want to hear it.

If you play Animal Crossing you might have noticed Brewster ask if you'd like pigeon milk with your coffee. It's a real thing! Pigeons and doves and some other birds produce it in their crop to feed to their chicks. I guess Brewster is adopting you XD.

My favorite owl is the Barred Owl. Their calls are super cool, it sounds like "Who cooks? Who cooks for you?!" Their latin name is Strix varia. I think I heard one outside my window one night! They are closely related to the Spotted Owl, which is endangered and lives out in the Western US in old growth forests.

Also, birds are colorful because the males are trying to attract mates. That's why it's usually only the males who have such bright colors. During non breeding seasons they often lose their colorful feathers. Red Wing Black Birds (one of my favs because I love their throaty calls) only show off their red wing bands during breeding season and cover them up the rest of the year.

Oh also, Bald Eagles! They start out not bald! They are juveniles for quite a few years, you might confuse them for golden eagles because they are all brown. As they age they gain the white tail and head feathers. So only the sexually mature adults are bald :)

Also Bald Eagles and other birds of prey will do dramatic mating displays where they lock talons and plummet towards the earth. Trust falls I guess XD

Ok um last one. Blue jays are actually members of the corvid family! Meaning they are related to crows and ravens and very smart :)

Oh and @bleepblopbloop56 I was going to make a post for you like this but for now this will do!

I hope you find these quick bird facts interesting!

[pokimoko]

Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?

[cairafea]

my favourite genre of seventeen is when they're straight up lying

ref:

[broh3m3]

Kalim's tsum vignette was fun (I lost my mind multiple times)

[feyinvestigations]

Red Hood's one man war against his Twitter verification continues

(heads up: drugs+graphic threats of violence)

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Masterpost

++Plus a bonus I forgot from Jason's previous escapades

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[umblrspectrum]

i got lazy in the second panel

[qalrey]

my fluttershy redesign x3

[kittykatninja321]

I understand where the “Jason should get his own city” people are coming from but I could not disagree more. Gotham is his wire mother. And you know how Jason gets about his moms

[metamatronic]

“It makes sense why ASGORE took so long to hire a new Royal Scientist. After all, the old one... Dr. Gaster. What an act to follow!” “One day, he vanished without a trace. They say he shattered across time and space.” “Well, I needn't gossip. After all, it's rude to talk about someone who's listening.”

it’s 2024 and i’m drawing undertale fanart of *checks notes* the gaster followers??? yeah sure alright.

((also i know goner kid is monster kid’s sprite but baby alphys intern has my heart))

[linkedin-offficial]

been busy in the skies!

[piratedllama-art]

The Assistant Manager [prints here]

[Done in procreate. Total time: 42 hours 12 min]

[qephyr]

For the epic bird who managed to revive a fandom @randomalistic (<- SUCH A PASSIONATE AND KIND PERSON BTW YOU SHOULD TOTALLY GO WATCH THEIR VIDEO IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY! GO GO GO THIS IS AN ORDER!!!)

bonus doodles teehee, got attached to the idea of a little bird and its oxpecker-like relationship with the world's largest parasite :]c

[scandalous-dirtcup]

Bearded Vulture drawing I did last year but forgor uhhh yahoo!

(On another note, thank you all for the kind words and support on my last post! I’m always a bit nervous about posting my art online and I’m very new to tumblr but so far the art community has been so sweet! Anyway, I’ll post more plierhead soon haha)

[fiendishartist2]

guy who doesnt dance x guy who will drag you onto the dance floor

[fruityumbrella]

one piece is set in a nautical world with presumably nautical idioms and exclamations to match, right, like swearing by the sea rather than on a god etc. to wit, there's five seas (the four blues + the grand line) so we can assume when you're feeling particularly dramatic, you might refer to all those vast oceans to get your hyperbolic point across.

keeping that in mind, lets live in a stupidly romantic corny ass world for a moment ok? take my hand.

"I swear on all six seas, if you don't shut the fuck up right now—"

"What?" Sanji looks at him like he's stupid. Nothing new, really.

"Ha, even you're going deaf having to listen to your own annoying ass whining all the time, Cook. I was—"

"No, you—"

"Don't interrupt me! Oi!" he yelps as a wooden spoon bounces harmlessly off his shoulder. He's not impressed that Sanji manages to catch it before it hits the counter.

"You said six seas," Sanji states.

Zoro stares back in lieu of an answer.

"Huh, maybe this has something to do with why you're always lost. There's only five seas, dummy."

And ah, now he gets what the idiot cook is on about. He's surprised and a little disappointed, honestly. You'd think the guy would be a little more aware about his own fucking dream, but whatever. He's got that annoying smile, smug and cocky like he's oh so much better than Zoro.

"Would you like me to count them out for you? I know it's a big number, it's probably confusing for a simple creature like you."

Zoro crosses his arms in clear warning, something the cook, as always, blatantly ignores. He's leaning on the counter that's between them now, eyes sparkling with glee. Idiot. Zoro's thoughts do not have a fond tone to them. Thoughts don't have tones at all, thank you very much.

Sanji lifts a hand and proceeds to count off on his fingers with the precision of a drill sergeant.

"I'm sure you at least know our ocean, the East Blue. There's also the West Blue, North Blue, South Blue, and of course the Grand Line," he wiggles all his fingers as he puts his thumb up for the last one like he's emulating fireworks.

Zoro snorts indelicately. "And?"

Sanji frowns with a tilt of his head.

"And?"

Zoro holds up his index finger.

"And," he says, stifling his amusement as Sanji goes cross eyed trying to follow said finger as it arcs towards him, "your All Blue. Dummy."

He punctuates the last word by poking Sanji in the forehead, snickering when he sputters and swats the digit away in a huff. Then Zoro's words finally sink in, and he straightens up almost too fast. It's not endearing at all.

"Wait," he says quietly, "you count it?"

Zoro doesn't like how Sanji's looking at him with an open expression he's not usually allowed. He looks earnest and sincere. Zoro feels suddenly out of his depth.

"Don't you?" he deflects uncomfortably.

"Well yeah, but that's different. You're—" he shrugs half heartedly and looks away. Zoro can't tell if the end of that sentence was going to disparage him or the cook. Odds are likely split down the middle. Sanji keeps looking at him, and he feels pinned. The bright look is gone, replaced by something more reserved but perhaps...searching? Considering, at the least. It's making him increasingly self conscious. He needs to get out of here.

"Okay. I'm gonna steal some alcohol now," he says shortly, striding to the cabinet and swiping a bottle before Sanji blinks out of his stupor.