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Anonymous:

Are there any raptors that make special nests? Like if you saw the nest, you could be like, "oh yeah, that's x species" with confidence.

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is-the-owl-video-cute:

I can recognize many raptor nests by nest size and location, but no they don’t do anything fancy.

is-the-owl-video-cute:

Amending this as I was still half-asleep and somehow forgot the ridiculous nerds that are bald eagles.

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Bald eagles will manage two nests a year— the one they use for rearing nestlings that is added onto annually to become a massive tower like above or continuously grow outward depending on the tree, and their winter nest which pairs make when they migrate south. The winter nest is not used to raise young, and seems to only be done as a bonding activity between pairs.

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They also tend to use comically large sticks which they manipulate into curved shapes with their unbelievably strong feet.

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Bald eagle nests can become so large that huge chunks fall from trees, or so dense and heavy the entire tree breaks under the weight. This is quite literally the only thing to make most pairs build a new spring nest from scratch, and they usually try again in the same spot.

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Between their ridiculous nests and needlessly death-defying courtship dance, bald eagles are dramatic romantics, to the point of being almost comical.

thyrell:

evilscientist3:

charlesoberonn:

charlesoberonn:

I’m really into internet discourse but only pointless and stupid internet discourse like how many holes there are in a straw (it’s 2)

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This is exactly what I’m talking about.

I’m sorry but mathematically speaking this question has a single objectively correct answer, which is 1 hole. This can be very simply proven; a straw and a torus are homotopic, and a torus has one hole.

i odnt think thats true one of my friends is a taurus and hes fine with gay people

muchymozzarella:

hieronymus-bush:

frankie-assassin:

delicious-dream-before-the-storm:

When you are a classical musician and the public asks you to play Queen …

@hieronymus-bush … although I’m not sure what you’ll think of it 😆

Holy hell. He has amazing technique AND he didn’t just transcribe the piece to piano, he essentially composed classical music (and honestly some neo-classical, lol) based on the melody. Plus, he kind of looks like Freddie.

People in the 1800s would’ve gone apeshit over this in the concert halls

rayne-the-neutrois-nerd:

Ppl say that after our man bashir is when garak and julian drifted apart and ye kinda?

But those guys are also kinda forgetting in purgatorys shadow and by infernos light, bc garak brought julian along to witness him 1) revealing that tain is his father 2) also witnessing tains death when its taboo to have non-cardassians view such a thing.

But then immediately after they get back, julian is outed as an augment. And i believe THAT (at least narratively) is when they drifted apart and tbfh i think it was julian who pulled away. How can you admit to someone that you’ve trusted against all odds that you were essentially lying to him this entire time.

And I think garak knew something was up beforehand, probably ever since they started hanging out, but respected julian enough to not dig into his past.

I think julian pulled himself away because he was ashamed? Feeling guilty? That he never let garak know the “true” him all these years.

And I keep fucking saying this, but /julian was never as vulnerable with garak as garak was around julian/. Not on the same level anyways. I don’t think julian knew how to be as revealingly vulnerable around him.