Tag: birbs
“Great Horned Owl” (1917) by Paul Bransom, cover of “Country Gentleman” magazine, March 24, 1917.
Hawk morphs. Many bird species – and some other animals – come in several color patterns, or morphs.
did you know hummingbirds not only drink nectar, they also hunt for insects and arachnids?
because I did not know this until recently and, let me tell you, watching a hummingbird slurp up a spider in a flash of long red tongue is somehow unspeakably weird.
my arctic environment professor on narwhals: “they’re pretty interesting creatures, I guess, even though they’re not birds.”
my arctic environment professor on a colleague: “this is [name], she used to study polar bears but has improved her life and works on birds now.”
Charles Green, ship’s cook for Endurance, skinning a penguin during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton. The crew had to supplement provisions with seal and penguin meat while they were stranded in the ice for two years. 1914 – 17
I was on campus yesterday and someone was playing the ‘nice legs daisy dukes’ song as I walked past a flock of geese and my mind presented me with this:
webbed feet toothed beak makes a goose go [cacophonous honking noises]
accessorise with taxidermied finches, or an untaxidermied albatross
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 