#partridge

[barrenclan]

"Issue #33: Hurt Me! Beat Me! Just Please Don't Leave Me!"

Thank you all for your patience while I worked on this! It's the longest issue of PATFW to date, so I hope you understand why it took me so long to produce. At the current pace it seems like issues will come out about every three weeks (or a little more), which is a bit funny to me. I called them "issues" as a reference to comic books and now look where I am. Full circle.

The boys are having a rough time of it, though, unfortunately. If it wasn't already abundantly clear, Cormorantpaw has some pretty severe abandonment and trust issues, which led to him keeping secrets from Pinepaw out of fear that he'd be left once again. But it's hard for Pinepaw to see that perspective when he's just lost his sister, and thinks that she possibly could've been saved... bad situation all around.

At least Thrasher is finally dead! That's worth celebrating, right? Both he and Crow died from a kick to the head, by the way, and the deer who killed Crow is Wild Rose's son Hyssop.

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[herpsandbirds]

Blood Pheasant or Blood Partridge (Ithaginis cruentus), male-female-male, family Phasianidae, North Sikkim, India

Photograph by Aniruddha Roy

[artbyanca]

Artemis, mistress of animals and protector of the young. 

[ridiculousbirdfaces]

Crested Partridge by Korkeasaaren eläintarha Crested Partridge (Rollulus rouloul)

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Foxy: my collection of vintage fox imagery.

[birdstudies]

October 6, 2023 - Ferruginous Partridge (Caloperdix oculeus) These partridges are found in forest and scrub in parts of Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Malaysia. They eat seeds, grasses, berries, figs, and insects, foraging on the ground alone or in pairs. Little is known about their breeding behavior, though they may build domed nests where females lay clutches of around eight to ten eggs. They are classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN as their population is declining moderately quickly due to habitat loss and trapping.

[birdblues]

Grey Partridge

[thatshowthingstarted]

Mosaic depicting a cat with a partridge (above) and ducks, fish & shellfish (below), 

From the House of the Faun, Pompeii, Italy,

Late 2nd Century BCE

Naples Archaeological Museum

[harkthorn]

Ballpoint bird sketches

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[birdgenetics]

The E locus in Chickens!

The E extension locus is the locus that determine the base pattern in chickens. I will show you all some examples of E locus alleles from most dominant to most recessive. The E locus controls the extension of black eumelanin and gold phaomelanin on a bird. Some genes extend black over more of the bird and some restrict the black to certain areas and extend gold. Some of these are actually mahogany (Mh) instead of gold, and not all of these pictures are stellar. I'm doing my best.

E: Extended black. Extended black is the most dominant and darkest of the base patterns. It has been debated what an extended black would look like without additional melanizers. Black birds that you see at shows are solid black like this hen. These birds are usually E based, but black can actually be created on most loci, with enough melanizers.

But it is theorized that males without melanizers might have some gold leakage in the hackles, shoulders, and saddles like this guy. I believe he is mahogany based.

And hens might have a little gold in the hackles. Extended black also gives birds epidermal melanin in the beaks and shanks.

E^R: Birchen is the second most dominant and the second darkest of the E alleles. It causes a mostly black bird. The hen has gold edging on the hackle feathers, along with down the front of the neck and breast.

On males it is much the same except the gold also extends to the shoulders and saddles as well:

This guy is lacking the breast lacing. I think it might be caused by some type of melanizer.

Birchen is a very cool base color because of all the patterns that are based on it. With a few other genes, you can get spangled birds, laced birds, and autosomal barred birds all with fully patterned tails. Also, it is often conducive to dark facial skin and eyes with the id+ gene.

E+: Duckwing. This is the wildtype pattern, what red junglefowl are: gold duckwing. Proving that wildtype is anything but basic.

Hens are a stippled brown with salmon breasts and gold necks with black striping

A male will have a black breast and tail and a gold neck and saddle. His wing is what "gold duckwing" gets its name for. He has red shoulders/bows, a black wing bar and a bay-colored wing bay.

e^Wh: Wheaten. It is theorized there may be more than one wheaten allele. In my experience, it is incompletely dominant with duckwing. It is the lightest of all of the colors on the e locus. I think it looks very cool and exotic and has an interesting level of sexual dimorphism. Blue wheaten is one of my favorite colors.

The females are a lovely creamy color like this Ameraucana from the Ameraucana Alliance page (because apparently my only wheaten photos are blue wheaten or red wheaten.)

Also from the Ameraucana Alliance page, Susie Winder's Wheaten Male. Wheaten males and duckwing males can be hard to distinguish unless you know their background.

Since white has the most gold extension, it is the best base for creating patterns like buff and black-tailed red.

e^b: Partridge. The most recessive of the e alleles. Darker than e+ but lighter than E^R. It is hard to find one without the pattern gene. Partridge takes pattern well but always has a black tail.

Females are the same color as gold duckwing but with brown stippled breasts instead of salmon breasts. Here is a partridge Drents hen from Kippenpagina.

Partridge males are much the same as gold duckwing, except with a touch more black in the hackle. Also from Kippenpagina.

[roughridingrednecks]

Partridge

[barrenclan]

"Issue #26: My Heart Is Too Heavy to Sleep"

Twenty-six issues in and the boys finally get to kiss-kiss-fall-in-love! Aw, I'm so proud of them. I struggled a bit with finding terms for dating in Warriors, since the series never has an in-between stage of friends to mates. "Together" works fine enough for me.

The idea of Pinewing and Cormorantleaf as their warrior names is one I've had for a long time, and admittedly the dumb joke about Pinepaw not knowing what pine trees are is just as old. Hey, he grew up in a wasteland! Not his fault.

It was also fun to draw Cormorantpaw's family again, I love their designs. A little more light is shed on his sordid past, but it's hard for him to talk about. It's still very fresh.

This issue is the longest one yet, so it took me awhile to make, but I like it a lot. I hope you do too.

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[herpsandbirds]

Crimson-headed Partridges (Haematortyx sanguiniceps), male, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, endemic to Borneo

photograph by Jeyaramsankar Gurusamy

[typhlonectes]

Barbary Partridges (Alectoris barbara), Tenerife, Canary Islands

photograph by Frits van der Meer | Wikipedia CC

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

trick or treat!

Chestnut-Bellied Partridge!

Please do not send me more trick or treat asks, I am only answering the ones I could not get to after I hit post limit last night, it is Nov 1st we have other shenanigans to attend to!

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

From turkey people to turkey robots to turkey costumes: my collection of vintage turkeys.