libertineangel:

is-the-bird-video-cute:

trashbaby1996:

bmwiid:

flowersnteacups:

viejospellejos:

@bmwiid

wow - like…. I didn’t think corvids did that synced flying formations?!

I’ve only ever seen this with like ‘flocks’ of starlings and things

@is-the-bird-video-cute how or why are they so in sync?? Im so curious!

Rating: Wild/Cute

These are wild ravens in a courtship flight. It’s a rare treat to witness!

What if we were both ravens 😳…and we developed a synchronised flying routine…😳

bogleech:

revretch:

iamthekaijuking:

revretch:

calloutnevvegas:

prokopetz:

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

….. Didn’t know most of that

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

manywinged:

i think my favorite thing about birds is how unapologetically and effectively violent they are about anything they don’t like. and i’m not just talking about birds like geese and swans and eagles and magpies. even a flock of tiny little sparrows can beat the shit out of you if they decide you’re looking at them the wrong way. if the rapture happened and a chicken decided to take issue with it that chicken would fight god and i honestly can’t tell you for sure that god would win that fight.

yishaqeni:

viejospellejos:

@tirlaeyn