#aves

[internetdruid]

Baby homunculus crying because he only has a dime to his name... many such cases

#aves #palm cockatoo

[snototter]

Guira cuckoos (Guira guira) in Brazil's Pantanal

by Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith

#guira cuckoo #cuckoos #birds #guira guira #guira #cuculidae #cuculiformes #aves #chordata #wildlife: brazil #wildlife: south america

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

#condor #aves #wildlife #wild animals #natgeo #wildlife videos #national geographic #natgeowild

[life-on-our-planet]

❄️🪶Goofy Ravens Playing in the Snow🪶❄️

#birds #ravens #birdblr #snow #aves #passeriformes #i too am shoving my beak into a snowbank

[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.

#not vc sorry #bird #birds #aves #raptor #hawk #red shouldered hawk #i think. might be wrong on that id #accipitriformes #birds of prey #honestly a really cool guy so close up #I'm happy i wasn't attacked. i would not want to fight a guy that big. #talons on this bird were huge. big scary. #I've never heard of large predatory birds just landing in front of people like that so i don't know what gives #it didn't catch any food or anything. just landed near me then stared me down. #I don't know a lot about bird behavior so i tried to not look back at it but still. #it also didn't look injured. seemed like a healthy bird #if anyone has any idea why this thing would act the way it did I'd love to know

[milagro24]

#nature #animals #aves #birdwatching #bird photography #birds #Pelecanus crispus #pelicano

[xylographica]

leave everything always unbroken

#bird #aves #ivory billed woodpecker #woodpecker #digital #reductive #recently extinct #b&w

[todropscience]

GULLS WILL DECIDE WHAT TO EAT BY WATCHING PEOPLE 

Herring gulls (Larus argentatus) can perfectly thrive in coastal  and urban landscapes, however, these birds will steal your food as soon as you are distracted. Urban gulls pay attention to human behaviour in food-related contexts, and will mimic what humans almost all the time, a new study shown.

In a simple test, researchers studied how herring gulls behave in front person eating snacks on Brighton beachfront, UK. They gave the gulls the choice between two differently coloured potato chips,  and when the human were eating potatos chips from one color, seagulls approached the food, and chose the same colour that the experimenter was eating, the 95 per cent of the time.

Seagulls were able to use human cues for stimulus enhancement and foraging decisions. Given the relatively recent history of urbanization in herring gulls, this cross-species social information transfer could be a by-product of the cognitive flexibility inherent in species who steal food, called kleptoparasitic species. This success in urban environments is suggested to result from behavioural flexibility, which is likely to require specific cognitive adaptations. In food-stealing birds, success is said to reflect an ability to integrate and use information about both the environment and other individuals, and kleptoparasites generally have usually larger relative brain sizes than their hosts.  

Photo by Jon J. Laysel

Reference (Open Access): Feist et al., 2023) Inter-species stimulus enhancement: herring gulls (Larus argentatus) mimic human food choice during foraging. Biology Letters.

#Larus argentatus #Herring gulls #science #animals #birds #aves #marine science #sciblr #scienceblr #biology #marine biology

[coffeenuts]

#IFTTT #Flickr #animal #animalia #animals #animalsinthewild #aves #avian #bird #birdwatching #birds #argentina #glennbartley #latinamerica #photography #southamerica #wildlife #redtailedcometsapphosparganurus

[meklarian]

Roseate Spoonbill, in flight (Platalea ajaja) Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Titusville, Florida, USA December, 2022

#birds #roseate spoonbills #roseate spoonbill #bif #platalea ajaja #aves

[hasellia]

"So the goat effigy burns every single year? Even though the authorities have tried numerous times to stop the public?"

"Yes. EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR... Except that one year with the birds."

#gävlebocken #gävle goat #goat #birds #dinosaurs #aves

[internetdruid]

Favorite genre of image ever

#aves #the first chickadee one is my fav

[snototter]

A snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) in the United Kingdom

by Graham Thurlow

#snow bunting #birds #plectrophenax nivalis #plectrophenax #calcariidae #passeriformes #aves #chordata #wildlife: uk #wildlife: europe

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

#pico zapato #aves #wildlife #wild animals #natgeo #wildlife videos #national geographic #natgeowild

[life-on-our-planet]

🪶🌑great-eared nightjar🌑🪶

#great eared nightjar #nightjar #bird #birdblr #forest #malaysia #aves #caprimulgiformes #request

[feather-bone]

European starling, one of the most successful birds in urban areas. During autumn and winter especially, when some starlings have migrated from colder climates and joined their warm weather resident relatives, they move in a huge cloud of birds, called a murmuration, on their way to their nightly roosting site.

[ID: an illustration of an iridescent black bird with a gold lacy pattern to its feathers flying to the left. It is on a sunset background with a loosely depicted flock of starlings behind it, merging into dark cloud shapes. End.]

#starling #starlings #birds #bird #aves #daily creature