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shoutout to this random-ass guy who had this incredibly rare bird sighting

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✧ A Mothers Revenge ✧

A kestrel seeks revenge on a European Starling after it kills and eats her chicks. In the U.S, European starlings have a devastating impact on our native ecosystems in the entire United States. This species is known for their aggression towards other cavity nesting birds, outcompeting native species for nesting spots and food sources. They’ve been known to kill many native species from bluebirds, to woodpeckers, to kestrels. They are violent towards competing species, destroying their nests, and pecking holes in eggs laid by other birds. Not to mention, they also destroy crops and devour multitudes of grain each year.

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I wanted to portray something intense to kind of grab people’s attention to this problem. Most people don’t know how horribly invasive they are. While they’re pretty birds, they’re not meant to live in the United States. I wanted to use colors like red (to represent anger, sadness, revenge, betrayal) to portray what native species have to endure every year towards a bird that was never supposed to even come in contact with them. And colors like yellow (to represent wrongfully perceived innocence and guilt).

The spills of blood can be represented as the successful revenge the kestrel has, or, the multitudes of blood spilled from native species by European Starlings.

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Did you know? All the European Starlings in North America descended from 100 birds set loose in New York’s Central Park in the early 1890s. The birds were intentionally released by a group who wanted America to have all the birds that Shakespeare ever mentioned. It took several tries, but eventually the population took off. Today, more than 200 million European Starlings range from Alaska to Mexico.

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lets appreciate geese ok? i love geese

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should i get into bird watching?

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Some of the taxidermy reptiles at the natural history museum in Bern! Gila monster my beloved

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カササギ（Eurasian Magpie）

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These two beautiful babies are still looking for homes! They're from Leliana and Asriels clutch last year :) The first one is a little boy, a disco mojave yellowbelly The second one is a little girl, a disco mojave :) They are eating well on f/t ra/ts! The male is $250 free shipping, female $200 free shipping :)

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Crimson chat (Epthianura tricolor) By: Stanley Breeden From: Wildlife of the Deserts 1980

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Potato

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GEESE

GEESE!!!

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Leliana is due to ovulate any day now! That means around 45 days after that until eggs :D

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Namaqua sandgrouse with his chicks By: Clem Haagner From: Wildlife of the Deserts 1980

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She's so stinkin' cute!

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Pūkeko - 2020

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Boop the snoot ! I love the dark little stains at the corner of her mouth that make her look like she's constantly making this face :(

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Sweet Raina darling!

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Everglades rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta rossalleni) By: Chris Mattison From: A Practical Guide to Exotic Pets 1994