CURIOSITY HAS BEEN ON MARS FOR 14 YEARS!! HAPPY LANDIVERSARY CURIOSITY!!
Tommy Edwin
@tommyedwin.bsky.social
Singer-songwriter based in South Dakota. Bassment Rock recording artist. 😎🎸🎼🦋🇺🇦🇹🇼 Retired professor, ex milbrat, USN veteran American fan of cricket 🏏🏏🏏 #LGB 💙💛🏒 Website: www.tommyedwinmusic.com Booking: tommy_edwin_music@icloud.com
Gouldian finch Black-faced is by far the most common, making up about 70% to 80% of the wild population. Red-faced variant is next at roughly 20% to 30%, while the orange/yellow-faced variant is extremely rare in nature.
Southern Ground Hornbill is one of the world's largest hornbills, roaming the grasslands and woodlands of Africa. Living in cooperative family groups, working together to hunt snakes, lizards, insects, small mammals, and other prey on the ground. Their booming calls can carry for kilometers.
King bird-of-paradise 17cm New Guinea and Papuan islands Diet prefers small fruits and berries they pluck from trees, plant nectar, and occasional insects during breeding season at the end of the video this male is trying to mate with a female by showing off its dance moves.
Bearded reedling 15cm They live in temperate regions of Europe and Asia, their diet shifts from insects in the summer to reed seeds in the winter. Males have a blue-grey head with a striking black "moustache" and bright orange-brown body. Females are a simpler buff-brown without moustache.
The hyacinth macaw inhabits the wetlands, savannas, and open forests of Brazil, 🇧🇷 Bolivia, 🇧🇴 and Paraguay.🇵🇾
Golden crowned tanager15cm Subtropical regions of the Andes mountains in South America found travelling in pairs are in small groups Diet small fruits, berries, nectar, and flour parts, insect during the meeting season dedicated attentive parents that share the workload of raising their young
Collared Sunbird. This is a common breeder across most of sub-Saharan Africa. Two or three eggs are laid in a suspended nest in a tree. Collared sunbirds are tiny, only 9–10 cm (3.5–3.9 in) long. They have short thin down-curved bills and brush-tipped tubular tongues. 📸: @rbrdcky
Extraordinary Photo of Red-tailed laughing thrush *by Frankie Low They are 27 cm, live in broadleaf evergreen forests of SE Asia and China, specifically across China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam Diet: insects, and soft fruit parents share all duties, incubating and feeds the chicks
The Great Argus Pheasant rainforests of Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay Peninsula in SE Asia. Males reach up to 200 cm in total length omnivorous diet fallen fruit, seeds, invertebrates. Solitary and territorial, spending the daytime walking the forest floor and roosting in trees at night.
Blue-breasted Bee-eater. This is a central African species of bird. It is a member of the family Meropidae. Beautiful bee-eater with a green back, yellow throat, and buffy underparts. The color of the breast band varies geographically. 📸: @drsunnyphotography
The beautiful Inca Jay 30 cm male and female are identical the male has a slightly bolder vocabulary. They live in the Andean mountain ranges of South America.
Trying this NA Pilsner for the first time. Damn, it’s good. Wish I’d grabbed a case of it. 🍺🍺🍺
The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:
Firecrest ~ Photo by Chen Chengguang The flamecrest or Taiwan firecrest is a species of bird in the kinglet family that is endemic to the mountains of the island of Taiwan.
Random Tommy Lyric of the Day “She does not think that I know what’s wrong. But I’m the one who knows her every song. And it won’t be long till she dries those tears and comes back to me.
Spotted pardalote 9 cm Eastern and southern Australia, Tanzania, In eucalyptus Forest in Woodlands and an urban Gardens Diet plant sap, leaf secretion sap-sucking plant lice Nest tunnelled into a clay or sandbank Both parents incubate and then feed their chicks 
I’m not going to say that spending all day at a bluegrass festival yesterday was like having steel wool in my underwear for nine hours….. but I could. 🥸 🪕 🪕 🪕
Another photo from my set at the cafe during the recent Montrose Music Festival.
White-crested Laughingthrush It is a highly social and vocal bird found in forest and scrub from the Himalayan foothills to Southeast Asia. Stunningly white peaked crest, combined with a thin dark mask and russet-brown body, makes this laughingthrush an otherworldly beauty. 📸: @mukeshmishra.in
The Indian Roller 32cm is a vividly coloured native to tropical Asia, from Western Asia across the Indian subcontinent. Males and females look alike. Diet: Eats mostly insects like grasshoppers, crickets, and beetles. Acrobatics: Males perform rolling, twisting dives during breeding displays.
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
