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.
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