#birds using tools

[lilithsaintcrow]

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, PARROT PHONE!

#parrot #birds using tools #smithsonian magazine

[landoffreaksandfrogs]

POV: you are eridan

#lofaf art #lofaf bloodswap #feferi #eridan #blood #ask to tag #SO some details about feferi specifically.... #i wanna lean away from the poseidon association with her and focus more on aphrodite symbolism and imagery #a god also very influential on the pisces symbol #who is also a goddess of fertility so i.e. muddergrub #i initially wanted to make her weapon of choice a big scallop shell shaped like a shield #but i kept the culling fork bc that just seems like an actual tool thatd be used in the caverns #honestly i was thinking about her potentially making bird puns as her new gimmick bc of aphrodites association with doves #and like itd be funny but do i know enough fuckin bird puns #ALSO all of her bracelets and necklaces are the arts and crafts from her now dead cloister and the wrigglers she took care of. yaaay. #anyway yeah i like jadeblood feferi a lot i think itd be cool if she undied #this does spell out bad news for violet kanaya though. stay tuned.

[captainkirkk]

did your family make you do anything weird when you came of age? my grandpa had me kill the thanksgiving turkey when i was 13 and my mom gave me a tool box when i was 18 bc i was a woman finally

Anon what the fuck

#the tool box thing sounds very reasonable because that's something useful for adult life #but the bird murder. less so #ask #anon

[geocyclist]

Sunday woodworking with my daughter to make a birdfeeder inspired by @fischotterkunst :

Mock up with suet holder with the placement of the ends and sides. The bandsaw was used to cut out the ends, and then the end pieces were used to set the jointer to make the sides match the angle of the roofline.

The feeder was assembled with an air powered brad nailer, much faster and cleaner than screws.

I am especially proud of how the roof panels came together. This reinforces that woodworking isn’t about getting exact measurements, it is about relative measurements. The peak of the end was used to set the jointer so that the roof panels would match up. The actual angle doesn’t matter, it is using the parts for the setup of the tool that does. (I really should have a picture of that and I may mock it up later for another post)

Here’s the block holder as it sits inside the feeder. It was too dark to get a photo of it hanging outside, so I’ll amend this post tomorrow.

Here’s to more avian visitors!

#technically I only used the bandsaw and jointer for this project #if you don’t count using the planer to mill some lumber that was resawn for the sides ahead of time #woodworking #woodworking tools #birdfeeder #bird feeder #band saw #jointer #birbs

[emuwarum]

Bird watches the sunset

#Emu does art #i love this birdy and I love this gorgeous sky and I love these hills I drew like how the bush looks from the car #made the birdy by drawing a giant uncooked rainbow ramen #then I cloned it and made a bunch of tiny ones #and then I smudged those together #cloned it so I could take specific sections as feathers then edit it together #four feathers through realised I could make a bird like this #did it #put it on a branch #started drawing the landscape and branch rough sketch #used the other smudge tool with blending on to draw everything except the sun #made the hills with green crescents of many shapes #the water was a lil weird #multiple things I drew in there. also dots so the light shines #did some splashy for the waterfall #then the sun #did one circle with the default tool #made a layer behind it #used the other smudge tool in orange then pink and purple #blend with dotty #go darker and darker purple blues #and made the branch with that smudge tool also #I think it’s actually called the blend roll but can’t check right now #and again with various shades of green drew needles #it’s one of those needle trees who knows which one #Love you bird who I completed with a migraine or something #Idk my head hurts and everything pain #I’ve been laying in my room in the dark for two hours #once again love you bird I’m gonna go back to my dark room now #oh also I can turn off the pen sensitivity that controls the size of stuff

[merelygifted]

Goffin’s cockatoo named third species that carries toolkits around in preparation for future tasks

#Animal Tool Use #Goffin's Cockatoos #Animal Intelligence #Animal Psychology #Parrots #Birds #Birbs #WHOA

[pyrrhuria]

birdposting today

#green cheek conure #traditional art #acrylic painting #parrot #my art #pets #my pets #sunnyposting #yes those are her real tail feathers glued to the painting #i collect them when she molts #i don't really do traditional art much and this is old but like #bird #idk #also i should clarify that the point of this piece is to demonstrate her tool use! #she often uses her own molted feathers as tools to open her pin feathers #birds are cool!

[corvilett]

🐦 #24 - Feral Pigeon

#feral pigeon #pigeons #birds #bird art #birblr #in this house we love and appreciate pigeons #i enjoyed drawing this one a lot c: #i sometimes pick a random brush ive never used before #and try to draw a birb only using this one brush #it loosens things up and kinda takes the pressure off of me whenever my perfectionism gets in the way #ive done this a couple times with shoebills #maybe ill post them too someday #ive drawn one using a brush that just makes a line of dashes lol #the brush i used for this pigeon here has the size of 1 pixel #so i had to use the fill tool to color it without losing my mind #corvilett draws

[charulein]

I love watching nature documentaries, but so many about reptiles of any kind tend to be... trite and wrong. Imagine if documentaries would talk about mammals the way they talk about reptiles.

#Despite having a brain the size of a lime #The monkey seems to be aware of what's its doing. #Or at least this could be interpreted into this behaviour #however unlike corvids there is no conclusive evidence that monkeys truly understand tool use #as the older mammals never teach their offspring #being thus stuck in a primitive cycle of learning the same basic principles with each generation #etc #crocodiles aren't lizards #crocodiles aren't relics of the past #mammals are not more advanced #and dinosaurs are still all around us (birds)(crocodiles aren't dinosaurs either)

[lisbonsteresa]

doing horribly

#it's just- aside from everything else going on it feels like there must be a part of lisbon (maybe deep deep down she does like to repress) #that hears this and wonders 'does he think that about me' #even after 10 years together she still has that fear - #i called you hundreds of times...not a reply; he's gonna quit someday; you ran away again....you ran away from me #(even after they get together! after blue bird! i don't know....if he's gonna stick around) #- that one day he is going to change his mind and that'll be it; he'll just walk out and they'll be done #and that almost makes more sense of her at the end of the fugue episode - it's a lot of things but most importantly #she just doesn't want him to leave (god it really is her blue bird) #and then for him to admit that he does have feelings for lorelei (something he's danced around but never actually said about her) #and still brush her aside as little more than a tool to get to red john...where does that leave them? what does that make lisbon? #what happens when she's no longer useful to him? #they make me so #tm

[wild-raven-and-crow-favorites]

This Green Heron is using bread as a lure to catch a fish. Behold tool usage by a heron!

#nature #tool use #heron #animals #birds #Youtube

[babblingstacey]

The kids invited over Otto & Desmond after school and discovered a new play gym in the neighborhood.

There wasn't enough room for Gerdie to play too, but she didn't mind, she decided to try to make friends with bunnies & birds. (the bunnies weren't home)

#Guess who just learned how to use TOOL? #I really felt like in these woods there should be rabbits & birds #and I didn't want the junglegym on the home lot #JulissaTheUnluckyChef #GerdieVisser #AnthonyVisser #RosaVisser #thesims4 #simblr #ts4 gameplay #ts4

[the-puffinry]

anyway did you know puffins can live up to 40~ and are (afaik?) the only seabird known to use tools so far?

here’s one using a stick to scratch. Check out this paper from 2019;

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1918060117#sm03

(also sorry but -- for the love of god stop eating them, they’re a very curious (to the point of often seeming tame, which they are not), highly intelligent and fast declining species, aside from the whole ‘cute appearance’ thing).

#puffins #birds #you might have followed for my own sweet bird but you really should have known i would puffinpost eventually given the url #animals #tool use

[merelygifted]

Video of cockatoos transporting and using toolset - YouTube

#Animal Tool Use #Animal Intelligence #Animal Psychology #Goffin's Cockatoos #Parrots #Birds #Birbs #WHOA

[void-tiger]

My friend: ooooh~ I’d love it if you did [fandoms] on a pixel grid that I could crotchet and we could sell as patterns

Me: I’m…not sure where the Fair Use and How to Get Licensing is.

Friend: [looks it up] …yeah it’d prolly be less complicated to just do original patterns and maybe then figure out fandom patterns we can do without getting into trouble, later.

Me: yeah. We can still do them for ourselves, but should prolly stick to original stuff.

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Also me: [fights with tablet. Gets it installed. Art software programs are…a massive learning curve.]

Friend: sooo how’s it going? I was thinking you could make a bunch of traditional crotchet “stamps” people could mix&match.

Me: …sPACE. ✨ [translation: if I’m gonna get myself to push through the art software learning curve + patience required for Neat Pixel Art and File Formatting n shit…I need to do frikkin Tapestry Pictures vs Stamps for a bit to stay engaged and motivated.]

#tiger’s musings #sooo I got pixel studio downloaded and that’s prolly what I’ll use primarily #it also gives me Tool Tips that aren’t frikkin annoying #buuut it popping up an UwU Message about my pen ‘plz do mouse mode~ 🥺 #is…uuuuugh. NO. I’ll deal with my pen being a bit sluggish and jumpy #mouse mode in that program takes away my stabilizer completely #so like…I may need to just. use my mouse. in pixel studio. wHY. #and I do have firealpaca. because Free. I like free. #and it lets me use my pen and it glides like a dream. lets me use the eraser end #…the Problem is…IDK what any of the tools even are or how to get out of them #ie: …apparently I need to print out its manual. #…I WILL figure this shit out. I’ve waited a decade to use my damn tablet #and Tablet + Desk (and screens I can stare straight ahead at vs down) #feels like it’s gonna be The Most erganomic way to Just Lemme Do Art!! again #(aside from watercolor. I don’t have the patience to let that dry or figure out Water to Paint tho) #(I did enjoy acrylic as a teen. but do I have a ventilated space vs Dead Bird? no. nor the paints or canvas anyway) #(idk. if I take up acrylics again it’ll have to be ‘painting outside’

[seeminglyseph]

I am like.... trying to decide Shrike stuff... because that was what I managed to do today. here are some of my ideas for sprites and variants and stuff. I have definitely also like... kind of wanted to play up the like.... fucked up anti-monster military system in WTNC with it playing into the major character arcs with Shrike and August. (and everyone else involved but it’s my August/OC fanfic I can do what I want.

I can also give everyone as thick of thighs as I want and no one can ever stop me the end.

#seph plays wtnc #shrike the butcher bird #will I ever progress a drawing past the sketch phase again? #who knows #but at least something has become created #timelapse #drawing timelapse #csp timelapse #and ye I trace 3D models why the fuck not???? #how do you CHEAT at art? #are you stealing someone else's art or imagery or material? Bad. don't do that #but like people who sell stock photos want you to buy and use them #and 3d models are positioned or posed in your own interpretive way anyways so like #you set up the shot and then you draw it #stop shaming yourself into struggling with something there's a tool for