#purple honeycreeper

[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

[glittertimes1997]

kuya bird agenda

purple honeycreeper

#i know hes a fox but SHUT UP #it has YELLOW feet #like his YELLOW eye #hes so pretty though ahdhgshdhsgsgdguhghsbshshh #kuya #nu carnival kuya #nu: carnival #nu carnival #hhhhhhhhgggghnnnhhhhghgggngnggg #aaaaGHGHHEHAGWHGJGKKENSNNGH #a #bird #bird agenda for life #purple honeycreeper

[redwrencreative]

Happy 8th day of Pride Month! We’re celebrating Bigender Pride today with a Purple Honeycreeper and a wreath of Impatiens Flowers 🩵🤍💜🤍🩷

#happy pride 🌈 #pride #pride birds #art #illustration #pride 2023 #pride month #procreate #birds #bigender #bigender pride #transgender #purple honeycreeper #impatiens #impatiens flower

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

Quick Purple Honeycreeper doodles (references in link)

#they're in riddler colours. i had to draw them. #purple honeycreeper #cyanerpes caeruleus #bird #bird art #birds #birb #birb art #birbs #doodle #doodles #digital art #art #wauk wauk

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus) © G. Pike

It hatches from black, blue, brown, common, different, female, green, grizzled, little, long, male, much, narrow, northern, other, pale, separate, similar, small, widespread, and yellow eggs.

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#squawkoverflow #purple honeycreeper #cyanerpes caeruleus #birds #g. pike

[roseunspindle]

Harry Potter, Lord Potter, Peverell, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Gaunt, Heir Black (Bonded)

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/417849671692413401/

 Potter Lord Ring

peverell Ring

Black Heir Ring

Gryffindor Lord Ring

Slytherin Lord Ring

Gaunt Lord Ring (in this au the ring as being part of a lordship, once Voldemort “lost” to baby Harry the ring vanished from all his protections and returned to Gringotts for keeping for Harry. The Goblins were kind enough to remove the “dark magic” (horcrux and curse) from the ring (for a small maintenance fee naturally)

Harry’s new other form.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/417849671692413534/

Harry’s First Familiar a Black Headed Python - “ Blæc ”

Second Familiar an Angora Bunny - Pancake Mix

Third Familiar a gypsy horse - Randolphe

Fourth Familiar a Gaboon Viper - Chanda

Fifth Familiar a Purple Honeyceeper - Iolanthe

Sixth Familiar a Spotted Cuscus - Marmalade

Seventh Familiar a Costa Rican Snail Eater - Ruby

#Harry Potter #for my Bonded Fanfic #black headed python #angora bunny #gypsy horse #gaboon viper #purple honeycreeper #spotted cuscus #costa rican snail eater

[monmorgandy]

Purple Honeycreeper by Kathy Hicks Via Flickr: Asa Wright Nature Center, Trinidad

#purple honeycreeper #Asa Wright Nature Center #Trinidad #flickr

[heartnosekid]

blue dacnis & sombre hummingbird fighting for the flower | source

#turquoise honeycreeper #blue dacnis #sombre hummingbird #birds #stim #sfw #tanagers #hummingbirds #aphantochroa cirrochloris #blue #purple #pink #black #green #plants #flowers #wings #petals #ishy gifs #postish #animals

[multishipper-baby]

Random thought before I go to sleep but, if Eak had wings, Ray would have to have wings too... I just don't know if those wings would look just like his dad's or if they'd be blueish purple and black like the animal he's inspired by. Or what.

#myocs #I mean it doesn't make a lot of sense for ray to have drastically different plumage from his dad #but at the same time. eagles and scorpions don't typically have babies. so I feel like we're fully away from realism territory #I like both options tbh. I love making ray be a little more like eak. but I also love purple honeycreepers #I guess it doesn't really matter that much #one thing is for sure though: his small wings when he's a baby would be positively adorable

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Golden-hooded Tanager

Photo: Greg Lasley

"Very attractive small tanager of humid tropical lowlands. Found in humid evergreen forest edges, plantations, and gardens; at times with mixed-species feeding flocks of honeycreepers and euphonias. Often in pairs, feeding at all levels in fruiting trees and bushes. Sexes look alike: black and blue overall with a white belly and a soft golden hood; in good light, varied purple and turquoise sheens are apparent."

- eBird

#birds #golden hooded tanager #birds of north america #north american birds #tanagers #birds of central america #birds of mexico #birding #bird watching #birdblr #birblr #bird of the day #Stilpnia larvata

[herpsandbirds]

Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus), male, family Thraupidae, Colombia

photograph by David Torres Byron https://www.instagram.com/davidtbryon/

#honeycreeper #bird #thraupidae #cyanerpes #ornithology #animals #nature #south america

[proton-wobbler]

Finals: Pretty Birds

Purple Honeycreeper vs Pink Robin

sources under the cut

Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus)

Cyanerpes, from the Ancient Greek 'kuanos' meaning "dark-blue" and 'herpes' meaning "creeper"; caeruleus meaning "dark blue" in Latin

eBird sightings: 29,552; IUCN Redlist Rating: Least Concern

Feeding on nectar is how this honeycreeper developed its bill shape- the bromeliad flowers it prefers are also shaped in this way. These small birds forage together in groups and are described as bold and inquisitive. They will often respond to the sight and sound of predators by mobbing, a behavior where multiple 'prey' animals surround a predator and try to annoy it away from the location.

Pink Robin (Petroica rodinogaster)

Not a European Robin or an American Robin, but a secret, third thing. (An Australian Robin)

eBird sightings: 4,981; IUCN Redlist Rating: Least Concern

The placement of Petroicidae, the family of the Pink Robin, on the songbird family tree is uncertain, but the current theory is that they are an early offshoot of the 'Passerida' parvorder, otherwise known as "advanced songbirds". This would put them outside of a lot of other Australian songbirds, who belong to the 'Corvida' parvorder. (A parvorder is basically as granular as you can get withing the 'Order' classification before you have to call something a 'Family' instead. Taxonomy is complicated)

Images: Honeycreeper (male & female - Mike Hudson); Robin (male & female - David Adam)

#hipster bird main bracket #polls #animal polls #bird polls #purple honeycreeper #pink robin #thraupidae #petroicidae

[thegurlwhoisntthere]

Because I’m feeling passive aggressive today, here’s a list of birds by colors they showed up for by google search for the batfam fandom when they try to come up with alternate names for Gotham’s Vigilantes:

Green:

HoneyCreeper

Macaw

Sparrow

Tanager

Vireo

Kingfisher

Kinglet

Greenfinch

Warbler

Siskin

Turaco

Eurylaimidae

Hummingbird

Yellow:

Goldfinch

Meadowlark

Warbler

Tanager

Verdin

Sicalis

Oriole

Cape Weaver

Icterid

Red:

Cardinal

Tanager

Finch

Flycatcher

Redpoll

Chaffinch

Rosefinch

Trogon

Ibis

Firefinch

Sunbird

Woodpecker

HoneyCreeper

‘Apapane

Blue:

Bluebird

Songbird

Thrush

Cyanocitta

Parula

Gnatcatcher

HoneyCreeper

Mockingbird

Warbler

Niltava

Tanager

Flycatcher

Dacnis

Magpie

Purple:

Starling

HoneyCreeper

Hummingbird

Gallinule

Sabrewing

Cotinga

Woodnymph

Swamphen

Thornbill

Sunbird

Finch

Flycatcher

Fairywren

Scimitarbill

Turaco

Dove

Woodstar

Tanager

Sheartail

Mountaingem

Carib

Violetear

Plovercrest

Cochoa

Grackle

Kingfisher

Black:

Blackbird

Raven

Icterid

Grackle

Songbird

Crow

Starling

Cowbird

Magpie

Phoebe

Phainopepla

Ani

Passerine

Oystercatcher

Vulture

Cormorant

Rook

Warbler

Turnstone

Jackdaw

I’m sure there’s more, but I’ve seen too many fics where they try to rename them and it’s all the same 4 birds with different colors slapped in front! There are so many birds and a lot of them have color overlap for costume accents!!!

#this is also towards DC writers #literally one google search and there are so many names #red robin #black canary #white canary #Robin #JUST USE DIFFERENT NAMES #there are not enough bird themed heroes to justify this much overlap #batfam #batman #dc #dc comic #dc characters #dc batman #dc robin #redbird #to be clear I am aware that some of these are already in use but I added them anyway because I can

[lalulutres]

Purple Honeycreeper.

📸: @davidtbryon

[birdyverdie]

continuing our birb discussion... i wanted to ask, are there any real purple birbs?

(no pressure to answer!)

Mmmmm it's 4am rn bcuz I'm a bit of a fool and was drawing my Dungeons and Dragons Owlin character sooo beware my rambling and nonsense ahah ;;

Anyways! There are so many purple birds out there, it's very lovely. However you said "real" purple birds and I may be overthinking this cuz it's late but it reminded me about how blue isn't a real color on birds because there's nothing in a bird's diet that allows for that sort of blue pigmentation. Yknow how bell peppers can be like...red and yellow? Yeah it's cuz they have some antioxidants called carotenoids that create the red/yellow/orange pigmentation. (Pink flamingos are pink cuz shrimp...what would blue birds eat to make them blue? There's really not a blue fruit out there. Don't say blueberries.) And the answer researchers found out for blue on birds feathers is cuz of light wavelength.

Protein structure specifically keratin in their feathers (stuff ur nails and hair is made up of!) kinda refract the blue wavelengths and since all color we see are the colors that aren't absorbed...well. blue!

But for purple--and this is a guess cuz im pulling this out from what i remember of my nutrition class--purple may be their true color. Cuz carotenoids can also mix and match structurally and allow for some green and off kilter blue pigmentation to occur. And yknow. Blue and red = purple.

So. Maybe purple birds. Will do research later. But there are many. Many lovely ones that we can actually see. For example, and my favorite cuz I participated in a volunteer opportunity for these guys:

Purple Martins! What lovely guys, they flock in the hundreds. Seeing these guys pass by overhead was so cool. Ok maybe they're a bit more indigo but they're adorable regardless.

Though if you want a very very vibrant purple.

Violet-backed Starlings. What a banger bird. This bird just knew how to win in the fashion show. This tone of purple with white? Urgh. Slaps. Iridescent too.. lovely.

You're a corvid enjoyer. I think you'll get a kick outta this guy.

Purplish Jay! No I'm not kidding about the name. It's kinda funny cuz it's like hmmm you're not really purple but still purple enough sjjshaha silly!! I love human naming conventions

I know there's a bunch of hummingbirds that have purple feathers I wonder why. Oh flowers. Flowers maybe?? Nectar?? *shrugging noises*

Anyways, personal favorite of the hummingbirds

Lucifer hummingbirds! Have no clue why they named such a tiny lil guy with such a name but humans are silly. Just like birds. I wish there was carcinisation but for birds. Ornithonisation?

Ok I'm not making sense anymore here's the names of other purple birds off the top of my head:

violet-crowned hummingbird.

Purple breasted cotinga. (Cotingas are such goofy birds).

Purple honeycreeper (what a name. Imagine creeping on honey i dont think they even eat honey, just flower nectar.)

Purple Grenadier (finches beloved)

And I forgot the name but it's a Turaco

Anyways good night!! I love chattering about birds

#hmmm birds beloved #birds #this bird speams #coffee my beloved enjoyers!! enjoy bird #oh my...ur kinda a purplish jay yourself. oh maybe a Rook. they have such curious mating dances. but the white face aesthetic is banger #oh but u give me red vibes. i cannto explain why. so maybe a red winged black bird. ur kinda a black bird energy too. #what am i even syng right now?? #this bird speaks #this bird responds

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Short-billed Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes nitidus) © Zein et Carlo

It hatches from black, blue, bluish, bright, colorful, common, dark, female, green, indistinct, legged, pink, purple, red, short, tiny, and white eggs.

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