I made a poster with a random selection of seabird courtship rituals!
how the heck did this post do so well?!? anyways as i said if it got popular i would slap it on redbubble i did that, thank you all for all the notes and comments! https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/154720777?asc=u
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Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Alaska
photographs by john l crawley - BIRDS (@jc_wings)
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Inspired by the recent storms, here's a great cormorant facing the wind.
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Some more stuff of Harbinger and Nimbus
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Cormorant in the grass
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Double crested cormorant, one of my favorite seabirds :) 8" x 10" India ink and watercolor on arches cold press
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BOTD: Common Murre
Photo: Kenneth Cole Schneider
"Widespread on Pacific Coast from Alaska to California, but more local in the east, being found mainly off eastern Canada. This large auk sits upright on sea cliffs, looking like a northern version of a penguin. It swims and dives expertly, but its flight appears labored. For its size, the Common Murre has the most densely packed nesting colonies of any bird species; nests may be so close together that incubating adults are actually touching other adults on both sides."
- Audubon Field Guide
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A baby yunco walking in Chañaral Island at the Humboldt archipelago, Chile. The diving petrel or yunco, a small sea bird in danger of extinction, reproduced again after four decades in what was its largest habitat in the world, Chañaral Island, according to an environmental authority
Photograph: Conaf/AFP/Getty Images
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The Albatross is the largest bird that can go years without landing. They spend their first 6 years of life flying over the ocean before coming to the land to mate. It is capable of traveling more than 10,000 miles in a single journey and circumnavigating the globe in 46 days.
[A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words]
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“Creativity and ego cannot go together. If you free yourself from the comparing and jealous mind, your creativity opens up endlessly. Just as water springs from a fountain, creativity springs from every moment. You must not be your own obstacle. You must not be owned by the environment you are in. You must own the environment, the phenomenal world around you. You must be able to freely move in and out of your mind. This is being free. There is no way you can’t open up your creativity. There is no ego to speak of. That is my belief.”
—Zen Buddhist nun, Jeong Kwan,
CHEF’S TABLE, S03E01
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A cormorant inspired by one i saw diving in some rock pools at the beach!
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Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens), male displaying his gular pouch to impress females, family Fregatidae, order Suliformes, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
photograph by ojitos.2601
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A bit less well known, the Brandt's Cormorant!
Perhaps a bit debatable to be put on this blog, the Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) is a seabird with shiny, weakly iridescent (perhaps even just glossy/shiny, but that's for you to decide and not why it's on here) feathers and a patch of blue, shiny skin (?) on its neck that's used to attract a mate. Also, its scientific name is from its quills that appear on its back during mating season. Its courting ritual is also kind of elaborate if not also kind of silly. It bends its neck backward, almost as if it does not have bones there and flares up its wings, exposing the blue patch. Look it up!
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a sign
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Drew a character for my relative's birthday. I wanted my family member to be able to use them as a decoration as well!
Please do not use my characters or drawings without permsission. Thanks!
Posted using PostyBirb
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That last one just looks so suspicious
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