Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus)

Photo by Paul Crook on Unsplash

I was looking up pictures of albino, melanistic, and otherwise colour-atypical animals as reference for something, and I had never thought of how fucking funny an albino seagull would look like. Like they're mainly white anyhow, you wouldn't think that it'd make that much of a difference, and I think that's the reason why it does. Like all the other albino birds look eerily angelic, pale etheral entities carved out of living ivory, and this motherfucker right here is just. nakey.

like. sir? any particular reason why you took your pants off?

Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

OP: When you walk the Jianghu, be fast (cr 兜里有糖)

i'm reading the genius of birds by jennifer ackerman (amazing book) and today i learned that the first ever documented case of a bird making a tool to use as a weapon against another bird was a steller's jay breaking off and sharpening a stick to wield like a lance at a crow that was taking too long at a feeding station the jay also wanted to eat at. the jay tried to stab at the crow but narrowly missed, the crow lunged back, the jay dropped the stick, and the crow picked it up with the sharp end pointing towards the jay and pursued it into the trees

imagine the guy in front of you at mcdonald's is taking too long to order and so you fashion a blade on the spot and hold him at knifepoint. and then he steals your knife and points it back at you while chasing you out of the restaurant. and also the guy is twice your size

i just found out about this bird (scale-crested pygmy tyrant) trying to find the most biodiverse countries and i feel tears welling up in my eyes because its so cute

why does it look like that i love him so much he's a little fella

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