Posts tagged birds
Kingdom of Bad Jokes
I hope you know what you're doing
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Argentavis magnificens
Argentavis magnificens (literally “magnificent Argentine bird”) is the largest flying bird ever discovered. This bird, sometimes called the Giant Teratorn, is an extinct species known from three sites from the late Miocene (6 million years before present) of central and northwestern Argentina.
Currently accepted estimates:
Wingspan: approximately 7 m
Wing area: 8.11 m²
Wing loading: 84.6 N/m²
Body Length: 1.26 m
Height: 1.7–2 m
Mass: 70–78 kg
-Wikipedia
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Red tailed black cockatoo females (Calyptorhynchus banksii) of Austrailia
Saw some of these when I went over Christmas, so stunning!
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jesus christ
Here, have a raptor with a wingspan of two metres and as much strength in its talons as a big dog has in it’s teeth flying in slow motion.
Holy crap…. that slow-mo footage is glorious!
Incredible!
crying
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It’s my dream, that if I ever get married, I want a dress that makes me as pretty as this peacock.
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Pin-Tailed Whydah. Photo by davidcyt
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Thick-billed Raven (Corvus crassirostris)
Is one of the larger Passeriformes (or songbirds) weighing in at 3 lb and 25 in long. it has a distinctively large bill (thus the name thick-billed) that is slightly curved. it can be found in and around the horn of Africa (Somalia and Ethiopia). they feed like common ravens on insects and grubs and human scraps where available.
Phylogeny
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A Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota), a bird closely related to kingfishers, shows off his serrated beak to the photgrapher in the Los Amigos Conservation Concession, Madre de Dios, Peru.
(photo: Geoff Gallice)
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