#laulujoutsen

[ruttotohtori]

Laulujoutsen/whooper swan 🇫🇮 / Canon PowerShot SX730 (paikassa Lahti, Finland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc8AQrjKM1j/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[juustozzi]

here it is - a fan design for the finnish national team in i11 universe!

I tried to add as many references to birds and finland as I could, and I'll put them under a cut if someone's interested!

general team notes:

our actual national soccer team is named Huuhkajat (the horned owls) after a horned owl that one day randomly started to live in the team's home stadium building - hence the team name and bird theme

that owl got named Bubi, and this team's coach is based on him

general team hissatsu are themed after owls or famous finnish things

all the players are based on the official(?) regional birds

Tuoni:

based on a whooper swan (laulujoutsen), which is the national bird (captain status)

hissatsu is named after a famous finnish song (literal translation: a swan song)

name comes from the swan of Tuoni; a swan that swims in the river to afterlife in Kalevala, and anyone who harms it will die

Ukko

based on a wood grouse (metso)

hissatsu is a reference to a famous painting "Taistelevat metsot" which decipts two grouses battling

name means an older man or a guy, and the male bird is also called "ukkometso"

Erne

based on a white-tailed eagle (merikotka)

name is from the first finnish-built space craft part, and the symbol of the project was a white-tailed eagle

Tintti

based on a blue tit (sinitiainen)

"tintti" is a general nickname for tits (the birds), but also the finnish name for Tintin

Pukki

based on Teemu Pukki, probs the most famous finnish soccer player

and his last name literally means a goat (vuohipukki)

that's all

Kopek

based on a willow ptarmigan (riekko)

most grouses in northern finland make a coil/a nest in the snow for warmth and safety from predators, and his hissatsu is directly borrowed from that

name is literally the sound the bird makes (kopek-kopek-kopek..)

Hakkinen

based on a western jackdaw (naakka)

name is an historical name for the bird, and Häkkinen is a common family name here

Apus

based on a common swift (tervapääsky)

name comes from the latin name (apus apus)

Juha

based on a white-backed woodpecker (valkoselkätikka)

name is.... based on a teacher I had, who was called both Juha and literally a woodpecker.... (this is an inside thing for just me sorry)

Suo

based on a common crane

hissatsu comes from an old belief of cranes carrying the weight of the sky, and they're the most notable species that fly in wedges

name means literally a swamp, which has been the best place to spot cranes here

Valokainen

based on a black-throated loon (kuikka)

name is from an old finnish poem singer, Elessei Valokainen. A loon is in an important role in the earth-diver myth that tells the creation of the world, and Valokainen's story of it from 1908 has been recorded

I also forgot to wrote it in the image but want to mention, these birds have the most iconic cry on summer lakeside evenings, so Valokainen has a laugh that kinda sounds like that

[my-friend-meowth]

Going to Pulkkilanharju

Metsähanhi (Anser fabalis) Bean goose, Valkoposkihanhi (Branta leucopsis) Barnacle goose & Tundrahanhi (Anser albifrons) Greater white-fronted goose

Laulujoutsen (Cygnus cygnus) Whooper swan

[whateverbringsyouthroughthenight]

Cygnus Cygnus

Whooper Swan

Laulujoutsen

(via Aki Mykkänen)

[otussketching]

Hyvää Itsenäisyyspäivää!

It's Independence day here in Finland! So here's our national bird, The Whooper swan!

[viahhapocalyptica]

Me, looking at a whooper swan on tv: Oh look, it’s a Finnish swan! Dad: How do you know it’s Finnish? Sister: It’s probably drunk. Me: *Gasp*................. I’m putting that on tumblr....

[koskaolikuutamo]

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[jupera2002]

The mute swan territory fight. The Finnoo bird basin in Espoo was for many years the summer home for the same mute swan pair. In the spring 2015 the pair was already nesting, when one of them died, most likely because of the territory fight. The other one left the nest, but stayed in the basin over the summer. In the next spring a new pair took over the basin and everything was calm. However, a year ago there was a dramatic territory fights, which lasted several week and surprisingly also a whooper swan pair was involved. Four swans were killed in the fight. This spring has started also aggressively. There have been several fights and also a whooper swan pair has occasionally been involved. The pictures are from Sunday, May 6, when three mute swan pairs, i.e. six swans were taking part in the fight, which lasted several hours. It calmed down in the afternoon and the coming days will show the final result.

[raajamophotography]

Laulujoutsen / Whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus)

Työsaari, Luumäki, Finland

© 2018 raajamophotography.tumblr.com

Please do not remove copyright!

[brantaleucopsis]

A whooper swan couple I photographed earlier this summer. It was my bird number 17 but I didn’t have a photo of them at the time I posted my then current list.

[jarnolaine]

Single . . . . Panasonic DC-G9 Panasonic Leica 100-400mm 400mm F/6,3 1/2000 s ISO-500 ⬛◼◾▪️🖤🌲🤍▫️◽◻⬜ #laulujoutsen #lumix #raw_birds #whooperswan #panasonicg9 #birds_captures #instabirds #kings_birds #lumix_nordic #thebirdingsquad #ig_discover_birdslife #finland_photolovers #ig_discover_wildlife #birds_adored #planetbirds #birds_and_wildlife #birdsandblooms #your_best_birds #birds_brilliance #nuts_about_birds #yleluonto #raw_nordic #finland4seasons #kuusamonaturephotography #linnut_kuvahaaste #sinkku #raw_allnature #jarnolaine (paikassa Finland) https://www.instagram.com/p/COFIryjhqjL/?igshid=i6381mw786iq

[ruttotohtori]

Laulujoutsen/whooper swan 🇫🇮 / Canon PowerShot SX730 (paikassa Lahti, Finland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc5b_S5K3rT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[my-friend-meowth]

There is water!! And Birds!!!

Laulujoutsen (Cygnus cygnus) Whooper swan

Kanadanhanhi (Branta canadensis) Canada goose & Telkkä (Bucephala clangula) Common goldeneye

No goosanders or eurasian coots here yet

Harmaalokki (Larus argentatus) European herring gull

[catobleper-blog]

The Republic of Finland turns 100 years old this year, so here’s the President of Finland riding a whooper swan and firing off a Suomi Konepistooli SMG.

[turkinuutiset]

Turkkilaisen miehen ja laulujoutsenen ystävyys

Miehen ja laulujoutsenen ystävyys Turkin luoteisosassa on ollut vahvaa melkein 40 vuotta. Se oli vuonna 1984, kun eläkkeellä oleva postimies Recep Mirzan löysi haavoittuneen linnun. jolla oli murtunut siipi, kun hän toimitti postia syrjäisessä kylässä Edirnen maakunnassa ja pelasti hänet. Sitten hän päätti hoitaa linnun ja toi hänet kotiin hoitoon ja antoi hänelle nimen “Garip”, kun hän oli…