just found out about the Cinnamon-headed green pigeon… holy shit how gorgeous

heymisterpigeon:

pantaloons out!

heymisterpigeon:

wood pigeon love!!

heymisterpigeon:

wood pigeon collar appreciation post

walk-in-the-wood:

perhaps i will be insufferable. as a treat

hortensius:

the novelty of having pets really does never wear off i’ve had my cat for ten years and i still look at him strolling around like can you believe this. a cat. is everyone seeing this. he’s alive he has bones and all. unbelievable

homeofhousechickens:

Little cuties

Also easy to see why my birds are so easy to sex at a young age compared to other breeds. Ibis and Bitty are only a few days apart in age but Ibis already has a lot of redness to his comb and other rooster tendencies.

dykestoevsky:

doyle estate copyright was up in january where’s my gay sherlock holmes

siberiantrap:

Endless Forms Most Beautiful

CLIX: Paradisaeidae

Sister to the ifrit is Paradisaeidae: the birds-of-paradise. There are 45 species found across Indonesia, Papua, and Australia. Pictured are the greater bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea apoda) and western parotia (Parotia sefilata).

Birds of paradise are iconic animals that serve as a stunning example of extreme sexual selection. The majority of species are strongly sexually dimorphic, with the males adorned in striking colors and decorative display plumes. These species are also polygamous, with males performing elaborate display rituals to attract and mate with as many females as possible, while playing no role in the rearing of young.

Birds of paradise primarily feed on arthropods and fruit, though nectar is occasionally taken as well.  Frugivorous birds feed higher up in the canopy and tend to be gregarious, while insectivorous birds feed in lower storeys and are more territorial.

fairycosmos:

mistakes are so normal and human and inevitable and necessary and real. if i make one however please put me to death

audinoplushie:

i hope shein gets shut down i hope ai projects get shut down i hope billionaires go bankrupt i hope public transportation expands fast i am so tired of the world’s bs

valeskhoe:

I’M GONNA FAINT

thoodleoo:

cry-4-judas:

thoodleoo:

thoodleoo:

worlds most compressed jpeg vs worlds crustiest pdf scan uploaded by an elderly professor. fight

they will have beautiful children

real actual PDF scan from an undergrad class:

it’s the warping on the text that really makes this

sauntering-vaguely-downwards:

hallownest:

imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.

for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.

teratomat:

Why can’t God just give us a break? I don’t know. Maybe he hates us.