Mangina argus is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in south-east Asia, including Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Taiwan, Hunan, from southern India to Kashmir, the Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.
I love how to my very tired brain this seems like some kind of deep passage about how home is where the heart is and I went “aw”, and scrolled down a good six posts before going “wait fuCKIGN MINUTE.”
Wait a minute, is the plover an actual animal? I always thought this scene was listing plumbers as migratory animals, and I was just like “yeah that checks out, it’s Monty Python after all. Probably a British joke I don’t get.”
Plovers are a migratory shorebird! there are many species of plover, but the Piping Plover is the most famous becuase of it’s ubiquitousness and FUCKING ADORABLE BABIES:
they lay their eggs in the sand, get crazy territorial, and when it’s cold out, they stuff thier babies into thier soft underfluff:
Which results in hilarity like this:
If you go to a beach and little birds with long legs are running back and forth right at the edge of the water, darting after the waves to probe furiously into the sand before running away from the waves, those are probably plovers. They eat little invertebrates that live in the wet sand, and, funnily enough, they can’t actually swim. See their little feets? No webbing. They aren’t waterproof, either, they just make do by avoiding water.
Photo of the Day – The Black-throated Parrotbill (Suthora nipalensis) is found in the northern region of the Indian subcontinent and adjoining parts of south-east Asia. Some of the countries it can be found in include Myanmar, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam. It is mostly found in tropical and subtropical moist montane forests.
This lovely photo was taken by Glen Valentine in Myanmar
This looks like a bird that was drawn by someone who’s never seen a bird up close before. It’s got all the right parts, but the beak is weird, and the eyes are even more so.
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