#i love vultures

[yotenotes]

vultures galore

first one is of two ocs i made :3 a leucistic ruppells griffon vulture and a bearded vulture with two different reactions to being stuck together in a series of unfortunate events. second is the new pfp IF YOU GET THE REFERENCE PLEASE ILYSM IF YOU KNOW WHAT ITS FROM / REFERENCING TO

[crazycatsiren]

New goal in life: befriend a vulture, potentially domesticate it, and then have a pet vulture. It'd be so cool.

[thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra]

JUST DISCOVERED THE CINEREOUS VULTURE AND I THINK IT’S MY FAVORITE

[zenaidamacrouras1]

Here is my favorite Robinson Jeffers poem (published posthumously after he died in 1962):

Vulture

I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside Above the ocean. I saw through half-shut eyelids a vulture wheeling high up in heaven, And presently it passed again, but lower and nearer, its orbit narrowing, I understood then That I was under inspection. I lay death-still and heard the flight-feathers Whistle above me and make their circle and come nearer. I could see the naked red head between the great wings Bear downward staring. I said, "My dear bird, we are wasting time here. These old bones will still work; they are not for you." But how beautiful he looked, gliding down On those great sails; how beautiful he looked, veering away in the sea-light over the precipice. I tell you solemnly That I was sorry to have disappointed him. To be eaten by that beak and become part of him, to share those wings and those eyes-- What a sublime end of one's body, what an enskyment; What a life after death.

[let-our-bones-lay-together]

Alright, let's talk about turkey vultures!!

Turkey vultures (cathartes aura) are the most common of the new world vultures. Alike the other new world vultures, they have a bare head to prevent rotting flesh from sticking to it, but young turkey vultures are feathered on the head with a white down. Their name comes from the adult's red head resembles that of a wild turkey.

Not all turkey vultures look the same, populations in the Amazon have darker plumage, and in the Falkland Islands they have a glossy green and bronze shade to their plumage.

They'll nest on cliffs or in a hollow stump, they're commonly seen roosting on tall trees. They typically have one to three eggs at a time, white covered with brown splotches, with five to six weeks incubation, once hatched it takes them eight to ten weeks to start to fly. Northern turkey vultures tend to be migratory, whereas southern vultures are sedentary.

I'll be making another post in a couple hours that is much much much longer and more detailed than this one delving into black vultures and their similarities and differences with the turkey vulture. In the meantime, here's a preening turkey vulture!

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[dogshit-enchantment]

A family can be 11 vultures and 1 dead ??? in the middle of the road

[violetsandshrikes]

Wednesday the king vulture chick is almost a year old now! She’s still adorable.

[oornithologistt]

vultures amirite?

og image below the cut

[hallowgeier]

i ought to draw more birds

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

im a simple guy! i think about puppy Barnaby. i promptly explode into bloody heart-shaped confetti

[squishymar]

me 🤝 neverafter screenshots = grade a content

[catallarii]

rainworld dump + oc

[listenerofpodcasts]

yknow. bird

[let-our-bones-lay-together]

Here's your additional bird fact of the day! The turkey vulture, one of the two vultures we have in Florida, belongs to the genus cathartes, the Greek work for purifier, given to them because they cleanse the land of carrion. Black vultures, the other vulture in Florida, also carries a form of the word cathartes, as all new world vultures have the taxonomic family name Cathartidae! Cathartes is also where the words cathartic and catharsis come from, meaning emotional purification.

[penelope-kat]

Analia the Bee

I made this after finding a bee that I thought was dead, but was actually still alive, barely.

I don't usually name my specimens, but I asked my best friend if she wanted a bee named after her and she said "yes" (btw her name is pronounced "ah-nah-LEE-ah", not "an-NAH-lia").

Of all the animals I've found, this one made me the saddest.

Here are some pictures of the bee right after I found it and thought it was dead:

And here are some pictures I took of it today:

Rest In Peace, small bee friend.