Tag: Birds

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A helpful guide to some common birds here in the western US

Here are a few more, for your birding needs:

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Here is some more helpful identification knowledge of birbs

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@elodieunderglass Important birds!

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Fawkes the Phoenix was based on a harpy eagle, howmcute would a kestrel phoenix be with a peacock tail and train?

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this is a Good Opportunity considering i was never a big fan of fawkes’ movie design how about

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@elodieunderglass uhhhhhh… Birb?

I Suggest we Consider:

AQUATIC (penguin)

  • No wait
  • this is terrible
  • put it back
  • the poor thing
  • why would anyone do this

I dunno, I kinda love it… 😀

It’s a fine line to tread when you’re breeding your phoenix. A swan is good:

  • Elegant
  • Classic
  • Like Cleopatra, he burns upon the water
  • Equal parts beauty and danger
  • Full of Secrets

But take it a few genes to the left and you’ve got a GOOSE

  • A raptor if raptors were total idiots
  • Neither beauty nor grace
  • Full of Hate
  • Has so much poop for you

(Make no mistake, a swan will mess you up just as hard as a goose. But it is the difference between being slain with a katana and getting whacked with a bag of old potatoes.)

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@elodieunderglass

Oh my God someone actually drew a Good Version of my Dubious Penguin????? And THEN someone added a sweonix (swan phoenix)? Oh man, this is the stuff you miss when you’re in the middle of a reblog chain.

@english-history-trip that is some powerful art, and I respect the trip that it represents from the sublime to the absurd, for in this journey we find enlightenment.

@keire-ke your magnificent penguin art represents the other side of the journey, which takes us from the absurd to the powerful. In this journey we find truth.

According to some sources, the legend of the phoenix might be derived from another bird noted for it’s striking appearance and who, indeed, are of the order Phoenicopterus

You know what birds those are?

FLAMINGOS!

Just saying…. if someone wanted to try ANOTHER take on Fawkes….

This is terrible and I feel like I should apologise, but really, it’s @iconuk01‘s fault.

Also I am not a certified Birb artist.

Never

Apologize

For

Shaming

Herodotus

A Cassowaenix

IT KEEPS GETTING BETTER

What’s your definition of better?  Cause I think this peaked at the shoebill.

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I would like to adopt another parrot someday, but I think it would be very strange to adopt something older than you.  Parrots can live to be 60+, so I could someday be the guardian of an animal who lived a few decades before I was even born and that’s just weird.

I don’t think I have the authority.  By default, that bird should be my guardian.

I am totally down for my next rescue to be older than me cuz frankly I need the life advice

My friend works at a pet store and while they don’t sell parrots, they do board and occasionally take in rescues and adopt them out. Well one of the birds they were boarding for a month was a 60+ year old scarlet macaw who knew one phrase besides occasionally coughing like an old man. She would say it on cue whenever a customer approached her and an employee told them how old she was. She would stop what she was doing, lean in close, her eyes pinning wildly, in a raspy whisper she would utter, “I was there when it happened.”

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The Silver Swan, built by John Joseph Merlin and James Cox, 1773.

Source: Mechanical Marvels, Clockwork Dreams (BBC)

oh wow, the “water” is an illusion created by spinning glass rods.

wooooooooooah

I will reblog this automaton every single time I see it because I adore it and you cannot stop me.

The Silver Swan can be seen at The Bowes Museum in County Durham, England. More about it here.

They still run it, once daily at 2pm. It’s an amazing piece, and I hope to see it one day.

WHAT

… There can only be one reaction to this wonder. 

But seriously, it’s mind boggling that something like that was achieved through clockwork mechanisms from two centuries ago. And that it is so well made that it’s still working to this day. 

Simply wonderful.Â