Just hung up a bird house about a week ago. Had it for years now, with house finches and chickadees faithfully nesting in it each year.
Well, new house and recently found it so decided to hang it up just to let the local birds get use to it.
Didn’t take this one long to claim it.
Still has the previous oqnwra nest in it and everything.
nature goes and puts a beak on top of that bird’s head
um… @elodieunderglass I feel this bird breaks some fundamental bird clasification rules…
that’s the bittern! from the front!
they’re the one that goes from the Orbular
into the Longular
which makes sense from the Side-ular
but is weird from the Full Frontular.
Once had to restrain a Green Heron (very similar to the Bittern) for a blood draw. As I stretched the neck for the draw the vet whispered under her breath “oh my gosh it just keeps going…”
An excellent demonstration of how tricky feathers are. All that neck folds up underneath those feathers, and if you never saw it do the Long, you’d think it was just a round thing.
So some of you who have been around a while know I used to work at a small, privately-owned, bird-focused pet store, right? And some of those of you might remember that we had a black palmed cockatoo, Artie, there. He was wild-caught illegally back in the ‘80s–the shipment was seized by Fish & Wildlife, some of the birds were sent back to Indonesia, but some were not. Artie bounced around to a few places–a zoo, a couple private people, and eventually ended up at our store (the owner was heavily involved in the bird community and was involved with all this somehow, idk I wasn’t around). Anyway, he had been with us for more than a decade, and since he was wild caught he was never really tame, and the owner always wanted to find a breeder to take him, since black palms are so endangered. She figured since he’s here, and being wild caught his genetics would be diverse from captive populations here, it would be awesome to help propagate the species.
ANYWAY a year or so ago, he finally went to a breeder, and he almost IMMEDIATELY hit it off with one of her females, and they laid an egg very soon after. The breeder & Ruth weren’t sure it would be fertile, since it was so fast and all, BUT IT WAS AND IT HATCHED AND LOOK HOW CUTE THIS BABY IS IM CRYING.
and i thought “woah what a noble beast” so i searched for more photos and i just
even the babies
i mean
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