#takahes

[mammal-blogging]

Birds of Aotearoa! At the very least, a couple of them!

[okartichoke]

ace avian. that’s what we’re calling this 🗣️🗣️🗣️

please let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions or input or anything! i’m happy to bounce ideas around (i'll post DL-6 someday soon i swear)

shoutout to the anon who sent in that ask bc i seriously fell in love with blue jay phoenix. SHOUTOUT TO TAKAHE PHOENIX TOO THO takahe phoenix, you will forever be in my heart and im glad you existed <3333,, (maybe in this au he’s got some loving adoptive takahe parents :3) (YKNOW WHAT YEAH that’s canon now)

but yeah, flight-avoidant jay phoenix still lends itself well to the common-man hardworking underdog vibe i want from him. speaking of flight-avoidant...

Phoenix's relationship with flying:

It's a bit complicated. Basically, Phoenix can fly, but he historically chooses not to. From the lack of any practice, he's an INCREDIBLY weak flier. (That hovering is really all he can manage)

For one, he's still afraid of heights. Can't help that. This fear means he was less inclined to practice flying, which made him a weaker flier. And being a weaker flier, in turn, made his fear of heights worse. And so on, in a loop. With flightless parents too (it's canon now it's canon), there's even less of a reason to learn to fly. At some point, not flying might've even become something he stuck with out of stubbornness lol, knowing Phoenix.

(I will soon be making a couple small world building posts, but) flying isn't necessary to get around in their society. Convenient, sure, but Phoenix realized he could make do without, and so he did. Phoenix, you icon. Slay. 💅💅

i know this probably isn't the popular take with wing AUs??, but Phoenix being flightless (or at least semi-flightless) sounded like a really fun take on the idea to me. His name is irony at its peak. I also look forward to exploring how other characters react to him not flying. The prosecutors are going to have so many cheap insult opportunities.

As I mentioned though, he still uses his wings a LOT, though. He's much more emotive with them than most people. His sarcastic inner-dialogue remarks are also betrayed by his wings lmao

I also imagine bird-folk never really invented bikes (riding would just be annoying with their wings, plus bikes aren't fast/efficient enough to outweigh just flying), so instead, Phoenix gets around on a little wing-powered scooter device (like scootaloo lol) (they're usually made for children who can't fly yet, but Phoenix still uses one)

finally, wow, stellar jay’s are quite literally just phoenix wright as a bird lmao? color scheme, hair, it’s uncanny. give it a pink tie and it just is Phoenix Wright, i used a blue jay since they’ve got a bit more striking wings but wow.

(ty again for the support and for reading my essay ! :3)

one more thing, but @kora-kat YES YES YES this. ^^^^ omg THIS. this is still true even though he's a jay now.

[stickynotebirds]

135. Takahe

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

[birdblues]

Takahē

[sunny-possum-pal]

Takahē Thursday

[saeflin]

A bunch of Nz birdies I drew for a sticker sheet :D

[its-stimsca]

HI ITS ME IM BACK WITH ANOTHER REQUEST can you make a stimboard with gifs of new zealand birds pls? Like tuīs, kiwis, keas, kakapos, etc :D

Oh to be a gif of a New Zealand bird… that’s the dream!!

🦜 🌿 🦜 / 🌿 🦜 🌿 / 🦜 🌿 🦜

[soldiertransgender]

OH MY GOD HAVE YALL SEEN THIS THING

[journey4art]

Doodlewash art challenge day 8 Takahe

1.5 hours

[seashellblue]

[plush-birds]

Takahē 💙 Antics 🎵 Plush with sound!

[twobruhsinahottub]

Nothing makes me happier than seeing silly looking birds in the countryside. Shout out to pukeko and geese. I love them.

[rowenabean]

guys please go look at this it is SO cool this is the COOLEST thing I genuinely teared up reading it

so for background NZ is not designed for mammals (like at all) and introduced mammals are a huge pest problem, and there's just not that many native bird species that could keep up so we've lost most native wildlife in large swathes of the country

which means that NZ has a long history of ambitious projects to eradicate pests from specific areas and reintroduce native species (mainly birds, because let's face it we have a lot of them, but also lizards and tuatara, which are officially not lizards regardless of what they look like)

but historically "ambitious" means "this one specific island", or "we'll fence off some land and free it of predators", both of which were successful! Zealandia is incredible! Zealandia is 225ha in area and these guys are trying to eradicate predators from 23,000ha RIGHT AROUND our capital city (also immediately adjacent to zealandia, for the record)(also zealandia with is 225ha has very noticeably increased the bird population in the non-predator-free bits of wellington, for the record, the first time i EVER saw a kākā in wellington was less than 10 years ago and now they're always around my parents' place)

TWENTY THREE THOUSAND HECTARES

and they've succeeded. It's not completely predator-free, that's not actually the goal, but it's low enough that it's safe, and they've started to release kiwi, and the kiwi have laid an egg.

only one egg, but one is where you start. one egg which is the first egg which has been laid in the area for over a century. one egg that means they have settled in well enough to lay an egg.

one day... takahē?

[guitarnacle]

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