bird marginalia
from the bible of borso d'este, illuminated by taddeo crivelli and others in ferrara (italy), 1455-61
source: Modena, Biblioteca Estense, MS.V.G.12 (= Lat. 422)
3 months ago
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BIRD IDENTIFIED: Eurasian Goldfinch (Cardeulis cardeulis)
European goldfinch - Wikipedia
NOTE: this is also the bird in image #9
BIRD IDENTIFIED: Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria)
BIRD IDENTIFIED: Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)
NOTE: rather unsure but this is my best guess; I believe this is also the bird in image #7
BIRD IDENTIFIED: Gray heron (Ardea cinerea)
BIRD IDENTIFIED: Little egret (Egretta garzetta)
NOTE: very, very unsure of the black birds with the egret, so I’ll leave that for someone else
BIRD IDENTIFIED: Rock partridge (Alectoris graeca)
BIRD IDENTIFIED: Egret (Egretta sp.)
NOTE: I have no idea what kind of egret that is, but I am pretty sure of the genus at least!
BIRD IDENTIFIED: Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris)
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ur-daily-inspiration
Purple Starling
Purple Staring
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Definitely could be! The heron in the photo I attached previously doesn’t have his neck fully extended, though. I’ll add one with its neck fully extended below
Black-crowned night herons do tend to have shorter necks than most herons; if this still seems to short than a juvenile yellow-crowned night heron seems plausible too!
Here’s some photos of them, with a relaxed and extended neck respectively
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Thank you for the description, that’s very thorough and certainly made my job a lot easier :)
It does sound sort of like a juvenile black-crowned night heron to me! Here’s a photo of one
They tend to get as big as 28 inches (2.3 feet) which is a little smaller than what you described, but maybe you spotted a particularly big one?
If you don’t think this is it, I can keep trying!
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howtocan
Baby bird season is incoming and I’d like to remind everyone that birds do not have a significant sense of smell. Bird parents will not reject birdlets because you have handled them.
If you see smol birbs with few or no feathers on the ground, you can safely put them back into their nest, bird parents will still care for them.
If you see smol birbs with some or most feathers on the ground, please leave them there, as bird parents are probably nearby watching and feeding.
nakey bird = accidentally fell out, is cold and scared, put back in nest! if you can’t reach the nest, try to put it on a wide branch or fork so predators can’t get at it as easily.
scruffy feather bird = starting to try the fly thing, not very good at it. only put in nest/branch if predators abound, i.e. you have four outdoor cats and they’re licking their chops.
fluffy feather bird = smol fly guy! do nothing. can probably get away from predators and will flip its shit if you pick it up.
Reblogging this because I’d always heard the ‘Don’t touch a distressed bird its mom will reject it’ thing treated as fact before now, I didn’t realise it wasn’t true…
illogical-bullshit
Spring is coming, time to reblog this again.
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- Confuse a Gimmick Blog for 10s (1/1)
ABC EFG I KLMNO RS U
15/26
[Image ID: a pink 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Seville /End ID]
1960 Cadillac Eldorado Seville
Image ID: a
pink 1960 Cadi
llac Eldorado
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Ok.
Achievement Unlocked:
Break The Gimmick
What is going on??
Item: Cadillac of Confusion; allows wielded to cast indecision upon targets when the engine is revved, making them unable to determine their next move.
confuse a gimmick blog for 10s
abc efg i klmno r s u
1960 cadillac eldorado seville
beep boop! i look for accidental haiku posts. sometimes i mess up.
ok
achievement unlocked:
break the gimmick
what is going on?
item: cadillac of confusion; allows wielded to cast indescision upon targets when the engine is revved, making them unable to determine their next move.
dragons detected!
Same pic of car detected every day
official post
and I’m denmark
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The three kinds of bird species name
1. God’s Specialist Little Boy
2. Hot Breasted Milf
3. Grey Bird With Brown Head
4. Walter’s Fingernail
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POV: she’s showing you this cool plant :)
[15th May 2024]
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A leucistic raven
Thank you for thinking of me!
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A cute early spring couple.
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bonded pair 🦢♡ 🦢
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Kingfisher and Great Egret lined up just right
BIRD IDENTIFIED: Great egret (Ardea alba)
BIRD IDENTIFIED: Common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
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In tears
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melanchol1e-deactivated20250809
shirazi pigeons
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Deserves worship
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Magandang hapon! :)
These are zebra doves, the most common dove in the Philippines. They’re endemic all across the country but especially common in urban and suburban areas.
You can identify their calls as a number of rapid, relatively high pitched “coos.”
Whey they’ve only just appeared in your area over the last few years, I’m not so sure! Could it be that you haven’t paid much attention to them until now?
BIRD IDENTIFIED: Zebra dove (Geopelia striata)
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BIRD IDENTIFIED: American woodcock (Scolopax minor)
BIRD IDENTIFIED: Kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus)
BIRD IDENTIFIED: Monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)
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A muppet dinosaur
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It is with the heaviest of hearts that I bring you sad news today. Murphy, the eagle who incubated a rock (and later raised a foster eaglet after his rock “hatched”), passed away at age 33 (almost a decade longer than long-lived wild eagles!). A tornado hit his local area. It’s believed he sustained blunt force head trauma, likely from spooking during the high winds, as his cage and fellow eagles were unharmed.
Murphy is survived by his foster son, Baby 23-126, who was successfully released into the wild, and a second foster eaglet he was still caring for; this eaglet is expected to be able to be released as well.
I know a lot of people on Tumblr enjoyed seeing his story, and I know we will remember him fondly.
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Or you use a plastic/silicon spatula?? Or a silicon whisk?? go to literally any dollar store they have shitty plastic/silicon kitchen utensils you can scramble eggs with without scratching up your pans
Now that’s what I call
