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White-crested Helmetshrike (Prionops plumatus), family Vangidae, found throughout much of Africa
Photograph by ASalfa Deri
Arcade at the Strong National Museum of Play. Rochester, NY.
Because sometimes what you need most is a real-life muppet in the form of a fluffy Tawny Frogmouth chick. This little cotton ball with a beak and two legs hatched on August 31st at Vogelpark Olching, a bird park located outside of Munich, Germany. The chick is the very first Tawny Frogmouth to hatch at the park and has been aptly named… wait for it… Fluffy.
“Tawny Frogmouths are native to Australia and are named for their wide, frog-like mouths. They feed at night on moths, spiders, worms, beetles, scorpions, frogs, and reptiles. Their coloration and ability to sit motionless provide excellent camouflage, making the birds nearly impossible to detect as they perch in trees. To increase the effect, they often sit with the head tilted upward to mimic a broken tree branch. These birds are often mistaken for owls, but they are not closely related.”
Head over to ZooBorns to learn more these awesome birbs.
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@todaysbird why do they????
because they can
Forest interior by moonlight - oil on canvas. — Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840) aqua-regia009 art edits
A 1978 image from famed space artist Chesley Bonestell, illustrating a molten, prehistoric Earth.
I’m pretty that this image/others by the artist were featured in LIFE magazine’s “The World We Live In” series, which I had a copy of as a kid and loved obsessively
Did anyone else have this as a kid? It got me into this type of sci-fi art at a young age.
A Seychelles fruit bat (Pteropus seychellensis) stretches its wings in Mahé, Seychelles
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im explosion lover so its very pretty
The Secret Place - William H. Hays
American, b. 1956 -
Colour linocut , 11 ¼ x 17 ½ in. Ed. 41.
