#raptor

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[autistrix]

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/166755971] Pacific Baza || Aviceda subcristata Observed in Australia Least Concern in location of observation

[nocternalrandomness]

American Heritage Flight

[thedragonitus]

I've had this idea for gryphons for a while so I finally put it together. I'm just saying if anything was a lion-eagle it was dromaeosaurids.

[pogopogopogopogopogopogopogo]

There’s more depictions of dinosaurs being bloodthirsty and mindless than dinosaurs being just animals and i kind of relate to it in some weird way. The media sees people like me as if I’m constantly trying to be violent or inhuman. it’s cruel to breathe air when you’re trying to live the way outsiders view as wrong.

[herd-reject-arts]

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

[juleteon]

you missed.

[wayward-delver]

Creature of the Night: 

“Feathered Dinosaurs aren’t scary,” is false, it’s about how it is presented and nothing is more terrifying than a bitter truth. 

by Jayson Duria/WobblyWorks

[herpsandbirds]

Crested Honey Buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus) EAT THAT TASTY HONEYS!!!, family Accipitridae, found across much of South and East Asia.

photograph by mikewang151

[cenospire]

A very curious Pyroraptor spots something interesting (a cycad seed) on the forest floor, and is just...tickled pink by it for some reason.

[drawotion]

✨ Make way, it's the lesbian raptors! ✨

[doc-art]

woke up today with a mighty need for raptor. utahraptor specifically.

might do more

[nocternalrandomness]

"Raptor in the Canyon"

[psie-smutki]

The Mob 🪶

[maureen2musings]

Rare bird sighting - Leucistic Red-Tailed Hawk

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[autistrix]

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50355249] Striped Owl || Asio clamator Observed in Brazil