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V. I love pigeons and chickens too much! Dreaming and planning for the distant future where I can care for a flock. Icon and Header images are both taken by me, my icon being my favorite local pigeon 💖 This is a sideblog! Likes and reblogs from she-doesnt-have-the-range.

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Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis), mother with "colt", family Gruidae, order Gruiformes, found over much of North America

Crane chicks are sometimes referred to as “colts”.

Sandhill Cranes breed in the far north of North America, and overwinter in the southern US and northern Mexico.

There are small separate southerly breeding populations in Mississippi, Florida, and Cuba, as well.

photograph by Denny Green

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1 year ago

Once i get my shitty little hands wrapped around the shaft of a sarissa it’s over for you bitches

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11 months ago

A photo of a chestnut-bellied malkoha, a blue-grey bird with irridescent feathers, a thick decurved bill, and bare red skin around its eye. Its bill is a pale greenish-grey colour. It is perched on a branch, with its body turned away from the camera and its head turned to be side-on.

A photo of a barred forest falcon, a long-legged, smallish bird-of-prey, standing on the ground with its head turned to the side and tilted upwards. It has brown upperparts and cream underparts, with fine brown horizontal stripes on its front, a broken white collar, a grey face, yellow skin around its eye, and a broad striped tail. Its bill is grey, hooked, and has downy feathers stuck to it. Its legs are yellow.

A photo of a black francolin, a chicken-like bird, standing on a flat surface with its head held high and its bill wide open. It has a black head and chest, white cheeks, a chestnut collar, and wings patterned with black, white and orange. Its bill is black and its legs are orange.

A photo of a common loon, a black and white seabird, in the water with a chick on its back. It is turned away from the camera, with its head turned sideways. Its has a black head, fine vertical stripes around its neck and on its chest, and a spotted pattern on its back. Its beak is long, pointed and black, and its eye is red. The chick has dark brown down feathers, and is facing in the same direction as the adult.

A photo of a black-tailed nativehen walking on grass, with one foot raised in the air. It is a vaguely chicken-like bird, with black and dark brown plumage. Its legs are red, its eye is yellow, and its bill is greenish-yellow on top and red underneath. Its tail is fanned out and held upright at a right-angle to its body.

A photo of brown mesite, a pale brown thrush-like bird. It is standing on a leaf-covered forest floor, positioned at a three-quarter angle with its feet close together and its head tilted to the side. It has grey legs and a narrow grey bill. Its tail is broad and rounded.

A photo of a Bannerman's turaco, a colourful bird perched in a branch. Its body is turned away from the camera, with its head turned sideways. The feathers on its body and tail are irridescent blue-green, and it has a lime green head with white cheeks and a red crest. Its beak is stubby, triangular and yellow, and its eye is red. There is dense foliage in the background.

A photo of an Andean potoo, a brown owl-like bird, sitting on top of a tree stump. Its speckled plumage makes it well camoflaged. It is round and fluffy, with its head tucked into its body, its eyes closed, and a tiny beak just poking out from its feathers.

A photo of a buff-crested bustard walking on a dry grassy plain and holding its head up high. It is a large bird with long legs and a long neck. Its plumage is mostly buff-brown, with a fluffy buff crest on its head, and a black belly. Its eye, legs and beak are pale greyish-yellow.

A photo of a capped heron standing amidst tall green grasses. It has silvery-white wings, a pale yellow neck and chest, a black cap, and long white plumes coming from its head. Its bill is long, pointed and turquoise, merging with the bare turquoise skin around its eyes.

A photo of an Andean flamingo, a large pink wading bird, standing in deep water. Its neck is long and curved, and it has a broad, angular, decurved bill that is yellow at the base and black at the tip. The tips of its wings are black. Its legs are yellow.

A photo of a channel-billed toucan perched on a branch. Its body is angled towards the camera, with its head turned sideways. It has a very large bill, as broad as its head and slightly decurved, and pointed at the tip. The bill is mostly black, with a yellow strip around the base. Its plumage is black, with a bright yellow throat and a red chest. Its eye is blue, and surrounded by bare red skin. Its tail is fairly long, broad, and heart-shaped at the end.

First 25% Summary - Part 2 (Cuculiformes to Piciformes, excluding Passeriformes)

Cuculiformes: Chestnut-bellied malkoha - Boon Chong Chen Falconiformes: Barred forest falcon - Andres Vasquez Noboa Galliformes: Black francolin - Vivek Saggar Gaviiformes: Common loon - Annie Lavoie Gruiformes: Black-tailed nativehen - John Daniels Mesitornithiformes: Brown mesite - Chris Courtaux Musophagiformes: Bannerman's turaco - Dustin Chen Nyctibiiformes: Andean potoo - Andres Vasquez Noboa Otidiformes: Buff-crested bustard - Luke Seitz Pelecaniformes: Capped heron - Xueping & Stephan Popp Phoenicopteriformes: Andean flamingo - Claudio Martin Piciformes: Channel-billed toucan - Silvia Faustino Linhares

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1 year ago

Steller’s jay stealing sweetener packets

National Geographic photo contest 2011

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1 year ago

Common or Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, found across much of Eurasia, northern Africa, and Oceania, Australia and New Zealand

The remarkable feet of coots are fissipalmate (lobed/partially webbed), which help them swim and walk across soft mud (without sinking).

Coots are not ducks, but are more closely related to rails and gallinules/swamphens (and more distantly, cranes).

photograph by Pat L. on flickr

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