Herps and Birds (and More)

What about your naughtiest, most chaotic birds?

NAUGHTY AND CHAOTIC BIRDS!!!

Keas are well known for getting into all kinds of shenanigans… untying peoples shoelaces, getting into their purses bags and pockets, pulling things off of peoples cars…

Kea (Nestor notabilis), family Strigopidae, found on the South Island of New Zealand

ENDANGERED.

A few ornithologists place this genus in its own family, Nestoridae, but this has not been widely adopted by ornithologists.

photos: mikullashbee, Andrew Walmsley/Kea Conservation Trust, long.explorer, cityparrots.org, & Tiffany Stephens

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aabcdp asked:

Could I perhaps have a couple turacos? They are my favorite bird family and I love their soft big eyes and pigments <3

Turacos:

Sure thing, here’s a few of my favorites…

Purple-crested Turaco (Gallirex porphyreolophus), family Musophagidae, South Africa

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White-crested Turaco (Tauraco leucolophus), family Musophagidae, found in central and Eastern Africa

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Great Blue Turaco (Corythaeola cristata), family Musophagidae, Kakamega Forest, Kakamega and Nandi County, Kenya

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restinpurples asked:

would you be willing to do a couple of your favorite finches? i quite enjoy the purple finch :)

FINCHES!!!

Oh man, i love some nice finches…

Red-cheeked cordonbleu (Uraeginthus bengalus), family Estrelididae, order Passerifomes, Kenya

photograph by Simon Odhiambo

Crimson Finch (Neochmia phaeton), male, family Estrildidae, order Passeriformes, Northern Territory, Australia

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Pin-tailed Parrotfinch (Erythrura prasina), family Estrildidae, order Passeriformes, SE Asia

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Pallas’s Rosefinch (Carpodacus roseus), family Fringillidae, order Passeriformes, Japan

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Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus), male, family Estrildidae, order Passeriformes, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa

photograph by Rich Flack

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rory-town asked:

i would just like to say thank you for all the work you put into running this blog :]

Thank you so much kumquat!

Here is a nice gecko for you…

Golden-tailed Gecko (Strophurus taenicauda), family Diplodactylidae, SE Queensland, Australia

photograph by Rob Valentic

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rusty-keys asked:

hello I need your most upstanding corvids

Corvids:

Hey there, this is very similar to a request made a few days ago, Check it out…

Herps and Birds (and More) (Posts tagged corvidae) (tumblr.com)

But i got you this as well…

Common Green Magpies (Cissa chinensis), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, India

photograph by @dhanapalphotography

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chaossandwich asked:

i was going to tell a story about a neat encounter with a barred owl i had when i was young, but thinking about barred owls reminded me of spotted owls, which i will likely never see in the wild. so, may i ask for spotted owls?

Absolutely!!!

Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, found in SW Canada and the NW United States

Conservation Status: Threatened

photographs by Greg Vaughn, NPS, Frank Lospalluto

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Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker (Prionochilus thoracicus), family Dicaeidae, order Passeriformes, found in SE Asia

photos: Natthaphat Chotjuckdikul & Saravanan Krishnamurthy

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eosofspades asked:

may i request some purple birds pretty please <3

Purples:

Hey there we did that one just a few days ago. Here are the links:

Herps and Birds (and More) — saw that other people were doing color-based asks… (tumblr.com)

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Violet-backed Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster), male, family Sturnidae, order Passeriformes, South Africa

photograph by Derek Keats

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Yellow-eyed Bush Frog (Raorchestes flaviocularis), family Rhacophoridae, endemic to the southern Western Ghats, India

ENDANGERED.

photos by Siddharth Sasidharan & Davidvraju

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kitsunesfire asked:

Do you have any birds that remind you of snakes, or alternatively snakes which remind you of birds?

SNAKE BIRDS or BIRD SNAKES:

Well, what really comes to mind is the SNAKEBIRD aka American Darter aka Water Turkey aka Anhinga.

Watching that long neck move around in the water, as the bird hunts for fish, reminds some people of a snake.

Anhinga aka Water Turkey aka American Darter (Anhinga anhinga), male, family Anhingidae, order Suliformes, Costa Rica

photograph by Tim from Ithaca

Here are some close relatives that also have the same vibe:

Oriental Darter (Anhinga melanogaster), with prey, family Anhingidae, order Suliformes, Keoladeo Ghana National Park, India

photograph by CLPramod

Oriental Darter (Anhinga melanogaster), family Anhingidae, order Suliformes, India

Darters, along with Gannets and Cormorants, were once included in the order Pelicaniformes, but many ornithologists have now separated these bird groups out into the order Suliformes.

photograph by Raj Dhage