#largest birds

[littlepawz]

Harpy eagle, the largest eagle in the world looks like a person in a bird costume, but judging by the size of his talons, I wouldn't want to make fun of him face to face. They live primarily in the upper canopy layer of tropical lowland forest and are considered "endangered species" in Central America due to the rapid decline in their numbers as a result of deforestation. Less than 50,000 of them can be seen over the world.

Harpy eagles have a hearty appetite and enjoy munching on a variety of monkeys, tree porcupines, sloths, coatis, birds, snakes, and lizards.

[famoushindi]

Top 18 Largest Birds In The World

The world is full of beautiful birds, some of which can be quite large. In this article, we have listed 18 of the largest birds in the world. Which of the over 10,000 distinct bird species are the largest? We’ve already discussed the uncertainty of measuring size: should we use length, weight, or how much bathwater they can replace? Since we just discussed the 18 largest flying birds in the…

[occasionallybirds]

Playing peek-a-boo with a Pileated

Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)

April 24, 2024

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[hmtaxidermy]

First mount of 2025! 🎉

(This bird died of natural causes)

[asterwild]

penguins. you are aware of them

[sleepysaurus4]

The last sauropod

Oh lonely one

Oh unfortunate one

Last whimper of billions booming voices stretching through infinity

You are the end

Not of a species

Not of an era

But of a world

Very soon flies and fungi shall feast on your kind's flesh for the very last time. For the last time in forever.

But right now the sun warms your skin

Soft dirt crunches under your feet

Joy returns to a resurrected world

I don't know when and how the last sauropod died, but I want to believe that it got to see the Sun.

[tides-that-bind-us]

Meet my rito OC, Nerisa!

She's based on a Snowy/Wandering Albatross and uses her large wingspan to glide nonstop over the ocean to keep a lookout for lost souls at sea.

Because she spends a lot of time in the air, like her animal counterpart, she has a difficult time landing.

She also has a crush on Penn

[4threset]

Elpis Deipnon

[cowabummers]

In another world The American Pope would've been a comedy cult classic produced by none other than Adam Sandler

[mad-hunts]

@threadpull (a plotted starter between jonathan and barton will be below! i hope you like it, tehe)

one of the first things that the people at arkham doing intake now to barton is cut his sharp nails. not only because they were a danger to others, they said, but also a danger to himself. though judging by the way that barton made one of their noses bleed before two people had to restrain him while they cut them... it was much more the latter to him, personally. yeah; that little action unfortunately bought barton a strong dose of versed to the deltoid as well via a nurse. because it was made quite obvious to them then, in their own sadistic words, that he needed something to 'calm down.'

it did indeed calm barton down, by the way, but that was because it was of course a sedative. he was brought to the cell that'd be assigned to him and a bunkmate then before sleeping most of the day away. luckily, the orderlies around that day somehow seemed to have some comprehension that barton would be down for the count until the next day, so he was unbothered from his sleep too. but on the second day that he was there? that is, after he was told he would be limited to only being outside his cell for about two hours, because barton 'needed to be in isolation until he proved he wasn't a danger to other inmates?' around nine PM that night, he finally met who would be his bunkmate.

and let me tell you, jonathan looked like absolute shit. as if the careless was that the orderlies tossed him into their cell wasn't shocking enough on its own, he had bruising all over his face. if he could squint due to the lights being out besides the little light that streamed in through the window... barton also thought he saw a cut or two on his face as too and one of his eyes braved one of those cuts; like someone had just missed blinding him in it. where dr. crane had been all day suddenly became much more of a concern, because whoever did this to him obviously either had some sort of vendetta against him personally — or maybe the rogues themselves. the silence that ensued in the cell subsequently was thick enough to hear a pin drop in.

being in isolation suddenly didn't seem half as bad as whatever jonathan had endured. with the way he limped to the bed that wasn't occupied, barton could more than tell that the bruising was not just on his face now. chances were that it likely littered doctor crane's body; and it clicked in barton's head as to who might have done such a thing to the other. stuck between the decision of calling out to him and letting him be at first, it was only when jonathan seemed to be struggling to even lay down that barton felt a string of cognitive empathy for him. plus, if he wasn't mistaken, the glint that the light in the window showed of his face indicated he was tearing up. what an abusive shit-show this place was.

❝ hey... come over here for a moment, hmm? i'm not going to hurt you. i just think its damn incredible that they left you in such a bad state without so much as cleaning up your cuts. but hey, this is arkham, ❞ to his surprise, perhaps due to the fact that jon was likely too out of it to care if barton actually meant he wasn't going to hurt him or not, he was approaching him then. he repositioned himself so that he was at one end of his bunk and once jonathan was sitting next to him, he carefully maneuvered his body down. now, the other's head was in his lap, and he experimentally placed a hand on his forearm to give it a comforting squeeze.

this was before he began to move his hand up and down the other's forearm slowly. barton knew well that, in arkham, you were not going to get any comfort out of the staff — hell, you weren't even going to get any from being let outside or the food — and thus, their options to not break down sometimes came down to really what you or your cellmate was willing to do for you. luckily for jonathan, barton was quite amenable to being surprisingly kind to his fellow patients when they were in trouble. he wanted to get the other's mind off of what had happened to him and so he thought; what better way to do that than to talk about nonsense with doctor crane?

❝ say... i don't know if you're a bird guy, but did you know that the largest bird in the world that can fly is the andean condor? it has about a ten and a half foot wingspan, and they live in the andes mountains, as well as the pacific coast. i only know that because i got really into studying birds here once to not go completely insane and they still peak my interest even now. its kind of darkly funny, huh? ❞

[korrasamibottles]

Trying to keep myself from yapping about the swan I saw to everyone who has the misfortune of running into me at work

[birdiepaws]

thinking about. bird selkies. idk if theyrr real…. but in thinking abt them

[entropic-introspection]

I think it’s very upsetting and unfair that spiders are just objectively cool animals but they make some part of my brain turn into a screeching terrified monkey any time they move or exist in a too large form

They run off hydraulics! Their nervous ganglions all fuse in the center of their body! They have insane adaptations for prey hunting in many environments and styles, including vs other spiders! Web physics are crazy as shit! Too bad they go skitter skitter and have horrible little eyes

[drolta]

not entirely sure how it works but I’ll go ahead and headcanon that Frey and Susurrus are intertwined at the soul now. So what happens to Frey happens to him. So if she dies he goes with her.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

EMPEROR, TERROR, WARLORD, MASTER OF THE AVIAN SKIES -- IF GOD HIMSELF WERE A BIRD.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1240×1870 -- Spotlight on ornithologist Jerry McGahan holding a 6 month old Andean Condor, the largest flying bird on the planet. Picture taken in 1971.

EXTRA INFO: The Andean Condor is one of the largest flying birds in the world as its wings spread more than 9 feet from tip to tip. Condors can soar and glide for hours without beating their wings, reaching speeds of 55 mph.

Sources: www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWere/comments/ibocxz, X, various, etc...