#terror birds

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

So it turns out Terror Birds/Cariamiformes are, in every possible sense, "Dromaeosaurs 2: The Quickening"

[avesdraws]

the terrorlove bird

[antiqueanimals]

Phorusrhacos by Charles R. Knight. 1901. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 25, No. 2. November/December 1986.

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[bwabbitv3s]

Terror Birds Had Raptor Talons And These Fossil Footprints Prove It!

Once the dinosaurs went extinct in the fiery blaze of the KPG impact, their avian cousins and descendants survived and thrived, with many becoming large predatory animals that specialized in holding down and tearing apart reptiles, birds, and mammals alike. One of the most iconic groups of these extinct birds of prey are the terror birds. One important aspect to their biology has just been confirmed thanks to a fossil trackway from Argentina.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Carnivorous birds of South America.

By Jean and Rudolph Zallinger for LIFE Magazine (January 26, 1959).

[blaiddydsaurus]

Titanis Walleri

[fkukso]

Tras la desaparición de los dinosaurios, los fororracos (Phorusrhacidae) ocuparon el trono vacante de máximos depredadores en América del Sur. La nueva serie documental La vida en nuestro planeta (Life on our planet) de Netflix, que contó con el asesoramiento del científico argentino Federico Degrange, revela los secretos de estas mortales y enormes criaturas carnívoras que usaban sus picos como hachas o guillotinas para matar a sus presas.  

Mi reportaje para AGENCIA SINC. Se lee acá

Y más en mi IG: @fedkukso

[the-unicorns-of-nienna]

You’ve heard of Sauron giving Orcs giant wolves to ride on; now get ready for: Manwë outfitting Vanyar troops with Terror Bird steeds.

[shutup-andletme-go]

Hey saw from your tags you wanna know about terror birds.

They’re an extinct flightless carnivorous bird from South America, possibly other continents too. Terror bird is their common name and like a lot of extinct flightless birds they are enormous of beak and kinda tall (1-3m) and probably really terrifying. They went extinct quite a while ago though, but they certainly would be an excellent edition to a chaos bird park

eeeeee!!! thank you so much for taking the time to tell me about terror birds!!

I am finding them fascinating, and they're now an excellent contender for my favourite pre-human animal!!

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

If you were able to have one extinct clade persist to the present day, what do you reckon you would pick? Personally I'm partial to the terror-birds - I think we need some more diversity in our large megafauna and birds have worked hard enough for it.

Terror birds are a great choice. I'd probably pick Hadrosaurs, so that one line of Ornithischians was still around. Plus, I love hadrosaurs.

[antiqueanimals]

Predatory Dinosaurs of the World: A Complete Illustrated Guide. Written and drawn by Gregory Paul. 1989.

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[bwabbitv3s]

About 5 million years ago, a new predator made its way from the south and onto the coastal plains of North America. It was a giant, flightless, carnivorous bird and came to be known by one of the coolest and most richly earned nicknames in all of paleontology: the terror bird.

[excalisi]

it's a fun hc of mine that during dick's robin days, he went through the "omg i wish i had a cool secret language so i can have secret conversations with my friends" phase all kids go through. but one of his closest friends at the time also happened to be the batman, a guy with possibly the most bizarrely diverse arsenal of skills in the world. bruce sees the merit in the entire idea of a coded language to communicate rudimentary information when they can hear but not see each other. so why not make a code built on bird vocalizations? it's pretty much incomprehensible to anyone without a trained ear or comprehensive knowledge of birding and impossible to even passably mimic without proper training, so while the chances of interception are high, the chances of someone understanding it enough to interrupt during the middle of a bird-convo and feed false information are not.

it also, batman and robin come to realize, feeds into the "holy fuck our vigilantes are cryptids" idea. bird sounds that come from seemingly no determinable location (ventriloquism) come to mean batman and robin are nearby. to the goons of gotham, bird song becomes inextricably connected to getting your ass kicked by the dynamic duo. the real reason why criminals don't operate during the day is because they get skittish and jumpy about if the sounds of birds chirping are real birds or some masked vigilantes lying in wait to rock your shit, and it's just easier to commit crimes during the night when all the birds are asleep so you know for sure.

ornithologists have boards on their bedrooms dedicated to the bird-bats of gotham. they've written dissertations.

the bird language becomes a bit of a batfamily bonding connection. teaching each other how to do different clicks and whistles, making up slang so bruce and barbara can't complain of clogging up comms with non-mission relevant talk, searching up birds to associate them with different people, psychologically terrorizing the criminal populace of gotham by chirping at them...

how the bird code works is that there's a bird assigned to each one of gotham's major heavy hitter criminals and vigilantes, and a few assigned to heroes out of the city (by which i mean the ones the bats associate with often enough to have a sign to address by). the only birds i've got so far are the robin (for robin. self-explanatory) and the glistening-green tanager (for the joker). i only have one for the joker bc i wanted to reference this hc in one of my fics and so searched up green birds to find the most eye-searingly annoying-to-look-at green bird i could find, and the glistening-green tanager was the closest one to fit the bill.

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[srutis]

warming up with scribbles