hoot-alex:

Since the other poll has ended, let’s do another! Here are some birds that were requested and some that I just think are cool that weren’t included in the first poll. Still no corvids, sorry. Corvidae will be included in a poll with songbirds and the winner of this poll. (yes ‘songbirds’ is an very vague group. I wasn’t expecting to end up getting this technical with the other categories. Maybe I should break it down and do another poll? How many bird themed polls is too many?)

*yes, megapodes are galliformes which were included in the earlier poll, but they are unique and very cool and you should google them, go on.

I am sure there are more that I’ve missed. There are so many kinds of birds!

Did you all know that herons, cranes, and storks are all members of different orders? Storks and herons are closely related despite this. Cranes, however, are not. There aren’t any cranes in South America.

The order Gruiformes, which includes cranes, is the misc box of birds. You got a bird or a group of birds and don’t know where to put them? They’re Gruiformes now, baby!

Herons are in the order Pelecaniformes with pelicans, ibises, and spoonbills. Also shoebills are here despite sometimes being called shoebill storks.

Proper storks are in the order Ciconiiformes. Fun fact: Marabou Storks can reach 5ft tall and have 10ft wingspans. Herons and ibises used to be here until they got shuffled over with the pelicans.

Taxonomy! It’s constantly evolving and improving. Evolution is cool and so are birds.

emperorsfoot:

tirlaeyn:

since I’m the bird guy, here’s a bird poll.

Consider not your fav individual species of bird, but the general type of bird you like best. Got it?

Which is it?

waterfowl (ducks, geese, swans, etc)

galliformes (chickens, quail, turkeys, etc)

songbirds (finches, sparrows, thrushes, etc)

hummingbirds

raptors (eagles, hawks, falcons etc)

ratites (ostriches, emus, cassowaries, etc)

shorebirds (plovers, sandpipers, rails, etc)

seabirds (gulls, skuas, albatrosses, etc)

penguins

parrots

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and yes I left corvids off on purpose, bc I figured they would win by a long margin. I want to see what other kinds of birds people like! Also these groupings aren’t exactly scientific, so like, don’t yell at me.

hi, OP, I need to know if corvids could be included in any of these options or if they were excluded for being too powerful

yep it was on purpose. I’m thinking of doing one more of these polls with birds I couldnt fit on this one, and then pitting the two winners against corvids.

catchymemes:

chick-it-out:

bukaw?

buk buk :^

bu GOKK :V

bip bip bip bip bip 🫐🐓❗

snzzzz 🐥💤

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celebrityho:

How peaceful is this? Little finches enjoying the water last night’s rain brought

claritharklow:

how can you be mad at me when i look like this

robot-pup:

the ribbon seals most defining feature, their stripes, take 4 years to develop!

here is a short timeline of their development 🦭

adorable white coat ribbon seal pups. this baby fur is called lanugo.

after around 1 month pups will start shedding their baby fur to reveal a grey and silver coat

young seals with their grey and silver coat

then, the juvenile seals with start to develop their stripes over the next 3 years. they grow stronger with each moult, females can reach sexual maturity before they have fully developed stripes. this mothers stripes aren’t fully there yet.

once they’re 4 years old a ribbon seals stripes will have fully developed.

male and female are easy to tell apart by their coat colour, the males will have bold black and white stripes

whereas the females have more brown/beige/silver stripes