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A bird with a good name is the least grebe. If that grebe grebe'd any less there wouldn't be any grebe there, hence it is the least grebe possible without no grebe.

[a least grebe shown next to mallard duck] image credit: Richard Ditch -> https://richditch.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/maricopa-countys-first-least-grebe/

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A lot of animals have bad names, But the snook? That thing is definitely a snook. There is no snookier animal than the snook, just look at it, snook snook snook is the sound it would make if it were a cartoon character. Snook.

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YES I’ve been chased and hissed at by a Canada goose but it doesn’t make me hate them guess I’m just built different

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Hey, do YOU live in the Southeastern United States?

i just want to let you know you share a landscape with some absolutely rad little guys.

Saffron Shiner: Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia.

Gulf Coast Pygmy sunfish: Georgia and Florida

Candy Darter: Virginia and West Virginia

Bluemask Darter: Only found in Tennessee (there are a large number of Darter species only found in Tennessee, I could not come close to putting them all here)

Mountain Redbelly Dace: Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina

Spotfin Chub: Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

Russetfin topminnow: Florida, Georgia, Alabama

Rainbow Shiner: Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee

image credits, please check these folks out!: Saffron shiner: Enchanting ectotherms Gulf Coast Pygmy sunfish: Isaac Szabo Candy Darter: Joel Sartore Bluemask Darter: Isaac Szabo Mountain Redbelly Dace: Roughfish.com Spotfin Chub: Enchanting ectotherms Russetfin topminnow: Isaac Szabo Rainbow Shiner: Isaac Szabo

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Cloven-feathered doves are really good and Green but also...

He's got PANTS

image credit: Shailesh Pinto, ebird

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I have one (1) special delivery for you

(this is a storm petrel, a small seabird that feeds on plankton and smells of old leatherbound books, trust me I've sniffed one)

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Any thoughts on the little fellows from the Bird's Head Haggadah?

delightful ask, thank you. huge fan of those fellows! i love how modern that kind of medieval cartooning can look sometimes. here's a pair enjoying some Jewish zines (was the haggadah the original Jewish zine? discuss) ♥

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tumblr, tumblr sweety that’s not how hillstream loaches work…

(it’s a common misconception that hillstream loaches, suckermouth catfish, and other biofilm grazers act as “vacuums” in aquariums and require no additional care/feeding when in reality they need to be look after just like any other fish!)

I also can’t believe they called a hillstream loaches mean, they’re just lil guys :(

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*seduces you*

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Are diamond doves actually made of diamonds?

This is a common misconception! they are actually made of a lightly sweetened puff pastry.

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sometimes I take photos of my bird from the front

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from my old account

Gingerbread sturgeon

HES BEAUTIFUL AND HE MIMICS THE LIFE CYCLE AND GROWTH OF THE GENUS HUSO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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*I* can fully appreciate the beauty of the budgerigar, sounds like you have a skill issue or smth

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Least Bittern my love....fundamentally unserious beast

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Snowy sheathbills (the bird in this photo) are known to drink the milk of seals.

Got milk but asked threateningly

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happy Tu 'BiShvat, all I want this year is to climb up into a tree and hang out up there like a porcupine and never ever come down ever again :)

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🛑STOP🛑

Are you about to send ANON HATE? Have you considered sending ANON SKATE?

(he's anon skate because no one knows his name)