#groove billed ani

[seathernycolors]

birbfest week 1 gugh

#lineart? in this economy?! #birbfest2024 #digital art #ornithology #birblr #groove billed ani #evening grosbeak #green-crowned plovercrest #oxpecker #cerulean warbler #bluethroat #scarlet ibis #long ass nose

[proton-wobbler]

FINAL POLL: HIPSTER BIRD BRACKET

Tidbits of info, if you need help deciding:

Groove-billed Ani has flown in on the power of friendship and communal child-rearing- as well as the power of being "just a little guy". They're clumsy and floppy and cute and they do raise kids in a big communal family, which is wild for cuckoos to do.

Sickle-winged Nightjar have made it this far I think based solely on the fact they are nightjar that are just a little weird in the wings department. Nothing else about them is extra weird or strange, and they're not well studied.

Purple Honeycreeper defeated the Pink Robin, a bird which I thought was unstoppable, by a best 2-of-3 run-off poll. The male is pictured here, but the female is also quite colorful and could have been the contributing factor in the win.

Oilbird has risen on its popularity of being an absolute nut of a bird: it lives in caves and echolocates, it eats fruit but finds them mostly by vision, it is the only living member of its family and order, the babies are so fat they can be used to make lanterns-- it's a lot.

Image Sources: Ani (Cameron Carver); Nightjar (Kristof Zyskowski); Honeycreeper (Mike Hudson); Oilbird (Andres Vasquez Noboa)

#hipster bird main bracket #animal poll #bird poll #FINAL POLL #oilbird #purple honeycreeper #sickle winged nightjar #groove billed ani #south american birds. all of them #GBAN gets into north america but still

[murimuridae]

Biiiiiiirds

#sketch #practice #bird #great hornbill #groove billed ani #Osprey #Black-and-white casqued Hornbill

[thelamb17]

I did the short list of Birbfest 2024 🐦

this is 1/5, the groove billed ani

Birbfest created by birdietam.art and hosted by monkeymintaka on Instagram

#bird #birbfest2024 #groove billed ani

[bird-week]

#kakapo #groove billed ani #birds #poll tournament #birdweek

[shimaenaga-art]

Groove billed ani - Riefenschnabelani

#Groove billed ani #birbfest2024 #birbfest #art #digital art #sketch #drawing #artwork #artists on tumblr #Riefenschnabelani

[andramariestudio]

Birbfest 2024 Day 1: Groove Billed Ani.

#Birbfest2024 #birbfest #Groove Billed Ani #bird art #watercolor birds #bird painting

[dougdimmadodo]

Groove-Billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris)

Family: Cuckoo Family (Cuculidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concerned

While many species of cuckoos are brood parasites that trick other birds into incubating their eggs and raising their young, the 3 species of large-billed, black-feathered cuckoos in the genus Crotophaga, known collectively as Anis, are not, and the Groove-Billed Ani (notable for being possibly the most common Ani species) is no exception: every Groove-Billed Ani lives in a small social group consisting of 4-10 individuals, with the number of individuals in a group always being even. This even numbering is the result of the way the flock is organised, as each flock is made up of 2-5 pairs of mates, and while each individual will only breed with their mate all individuals in the group work to establish and defend a shared territory and to construct a large, cup-shaped shared nest into which every female in the flock will lay eggs. Found in grasslands, shrublands and other open habitats, the Grooved-Billed Ani is native to much of northern South America and southern North America (although on occasion it may be observed as far south as northern Argentina and as far north as Canada as a vagrant) and feeds on fruits, seeds, insects and small vertebrates, with its large and extremely powerful beak being well suited to breaking hard seed shells as well as the exoskeletons and bones of prey. Throughout the majority of its range this species is resident (non-migratory), but in the northernmost extremes of its North American range it may seasonally travel south to avoid cold weather and low resource availability during the winter. 

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1972-Crotophaga-sulcirostris

#Groove-Billed Ani #ani #anis #cuckoo #cuckoos #bird #birds #zoology #biology #ornithology #animal #animals #wildlife #South American wildlife #North American wildlife

[stickynotebirds]

193. Groove-billed Ani

#todays bird #birdblr #artists on tumblr #birds #bird of the day #bird #Groove-billed Ani

[drafthearse]

Groove-billed ani, Playa Del Coco, Costa Rica

#groove-billed ani #Crotophaga sulcirostris #birds #finds

[mrlilrox]

a groove-billed ani for the doodle request?

A groove billed ani you shall receive

( 3/5 )

#another birdie request! #groove-billed ani #bird art #doodle requests #✉️onward #🖌SmallThread #🌝SettingMoon

[proton-wobbler]

Semifinals, Poll 8

Bat Hawk vs Groove-billed Ani

sources under the cut

Bat Hawk (Macheiramphus alcinus)

"Bats are captured by the use of small talons and swallowed whole immediately in flight." - Wikipedia

eBird sightings: 3,086; IUCN Redlist Rating: Least Concern

Other than bats, this hawk will also hunt swallows, swifts, nightjar, and sometimes insects. Almost 50% of their hunts are successful. Their gape, or mouth opening, is the largest of any raptor relative to body size, and is ironically more similar to that of swallows and nightjar. This may be due to their habit of eating on the wing, or as a selective pressure to a limited feeding time- only around 30 minutes at dusk.

Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris)

"Bizarre, coal-black cuckoos with long floppy tails and unique, curiously tall, flattened bills. Gregarious and not particularly graceful; usually seen crashing around awkwardly in small groups" - eBird

eBird sightings: 262,392; IUCN Redlist Rating: Least Concern

Ani are communal nesters, with each pair creating their own nest before the group as a whole decides which single nest to lay all of their eggs in. Each member will take care of the chicks as if they're their own, and they all take turns incubating. While their genus name 'Crotophaga' means "tick-eater", it was given to them a bit erroneously. Rather than plucking ticks off of animals, as people have assumed, it's more likely the Ani prefer to follow cattle and other grazing animals because of the bugs they scare up.

Images: Hawk (Zak Pohlen); Ani (Cameron Carver)

(the tick story comes from their genus page, Crotophaga)

#aka: I did not exactly expect y'all to get this far but Lets Gooooo! #hipster bird main bracket #polls #bat hawk #groove billed ani

[quiets-cradle]

[sandpaper sanding sounds]

#more rambling #does this make sense to anyone ever #because the first one is a groove billed ani. and the second is a smooth billed ani

[herpsandbirds]

Thoights on ani birds???

I have been trying to see them here in the US for ages, and the elude me... they betray me!!!

But I love them!

Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), family Cuculidae, Order Cuculiformes, Houston, TX, USA

Photograph by Frank J Faresse

#Crotophaga #ani #cuculidae #cuculiformes #bird #ornithology #nature #animals #north america

[bird-week]

#kea #groove billed ani #poll tournament #birds #birdweek

[kateammann]

daily birds week 4!

groove-billed ani + white-breasted nuthatch

downy woodpecker + eurasian treecreeper

carolina wren + tufted titmouse

baltimore oriole

#my art #digital art #daily birds #birds #bird art #artists on tumblr #art #animal art #sketch book