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🏳️‍🌈CloudyPetrel

@macronecteshalli.bsky.social

🔞He/They/It 23🔞 A tired Misophoniac/Misokinesiac and an artist. I like extinct organisms, fish, and birds! Bugs are cool too.

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Andrew Iwaniuk@evoneuro.bsky.social · 3h ago

Dodo fans unite! We have a new paper out on the brain and sensory abilities of the Dodo and Solitaire showing that the Dodo has several unusual features. #ornithology #birds

@evolsara.bsky.social · 6h ago

🦤 What do we really know about the Dodo? The dodo was likely nocturnal and, less surprisingly, its telencephalon was perfectly normal for a pigeon of its size. This paints a very different picture of one of history's most misunderstood birds. @evoneuro.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.1093/zool...

Constance Lee Menefee@conniemenefee.bsky.social · 8h ago

Common Grackles have a ridge (keel) on their upper bill & move the acorn around to "saw" the acorn open - Illustration of Bronzed Grackle (subsp of Common Grackle) is from the Wilson Bulletin <https://sora.unm[dot]edu/node/218 THE WILSON BULLETIN p.238 December, 1941 Vol. 53, No. 4

The Bronzed Grackle's Method of Opening Acorns.-The writer has known for some time that the Bronzed Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula aeneus) splits the shells of acorns in order to secure the meat. While watching the feeding operations of this species at Madison, Wisconsin, in September, 1941,it occurred to me that the procedure might not be commonly known. The reference books consulted were silent beyond the statement that acorns form a portion of the Grackle's diet. Correspondence with J. Van Tyne resulted in reference to the paper by Alexander Wetmore (auk, 36, 1919: 190-7) in which the method of splitting the acorns is described. The cutting is done by a special ridge or keel in the Grackle's palate. The position of the acorn in the bill during shelling is shown in the accompanying ...Black feathered bird with iridescent head is holding an acorn near beak hingeBlack feathered bird with iridescent head has acorn crumbs in beak
Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 22h ago

A thread of abolsutely fantastic woman and enby pterosaur palaeoartists (you should follow, platform and shower with compliments) 🧵 Like, look at avi🌧️ over here, baller:

avi 🌧️@barghest-land.bsky.social · 2y ago

i think it's time to introduce Gentle Wind - my personal project about pterosaurs. there will be quite a few animations done to appreciate those beautiful creatures. here's one of them :) more to come! i'll be talking about it under #gentle_wind tag☁️ #paleoart #sciart

Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · yesterday

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.
Chris “Chance!” Brown@chancesecond.bsky.social · 6d ago

It’s something that I was assured was cyclical but also became impossibly and frustratingly semi-permanent, and it serves nobody.

Rachel Green@rachelgreenart.bsky.social · 6d ago

I love how the previous generations of storyboard artists were allowed to draw silly cartoon characters on flat wobbly backgrounds, but now we have to learn how to draw the most realistic anime proportions and perspective ever to even be considered for a job