#bird molting

[martuzzio]

ETHO!!!

#hermitcraft #my art #ethoslab #saw pictures of little kid kakashi and went oughghghhhhghghhghh [passes away] [revives to draw Etho] #Naruto AND Hermitcraft my beloveds #I've been doing nothing but drawing this man. This happens at least once every year. Like a bird molting or somethn

[ostdrossel]

If this is a face

that only a mother could love, I guess I am a mother now 😁 Grackles can undergo some of the more dramatic molts, with individuals sometimes losing their entire head feathers. This gives them a completely different appearance, and while I kind of pity them, I also deeply love these weirdly beautiful creatures.

#birds #Common Grackle #Count Grackula #molting season #birds of Michigan #birds of north america #birdwatching #birdlovers #nature #Ostdrossel #birdphotography

[arkiwii]

Learn to take care of your Liberi partner

#for people who dont know birds #Saria is preening Silence #preening is the action of removing the keratin shell around newly formed feathers when the bird molts #so you know!! yes i do put my bird knowledge on my blorbos. im insane #arknights #stalkiwiart #olivia silence #saria #sariasil #fanart

[kedreeva]

This tiny little barb feather is an ear feather! It is one of many that cover Bug's aural cavity, to protect it from getting dirt and other debris in it. They're also differently colored than the feathers around them, making the circle of the ear stand out in their face!

#peafowl #feathers #peahens #birds #my pets #bug the peahen #she's molting so I'm finding all the cool feathers right now lol

[tinylongwing]

Out now in the Journal of Avian Biology! Pyle et al. 2024 discusses the evolutionary history of bird molt, and I was asked to illustrate this whole family tree in terms of molt strategies. I'm so pleased to have put this all together for the authors! This is a fairly technical topic and so I know how valuable it is to have an image to go along with it!

The Institute for Bird Populations has a post here that describes the paper, and includes a link to the high-resolution pdf of the above image as well as a link to the paper itself for those who really want to dig in deep. Check it out!

#birblr #birdblr #scientific illustration #molt #ornithology #bird evolution #evolution #scientists on tumblr #artists on tumblr #birds #birb #birbs

[ziggystarling]

Over-wing vs Under-wing Head Scratching

Like most passerines, starlings scratch themselves by drooping one wing, hiking their leg back, and lifting it over the wing to scratch their head, as you can see in this slowmo video. This is in contrast to birds like ducks, geese, herons, and storks who scratch under the wing.

#birds #pet bird #birb #birblr #starling #european starling #sturnus vulgaris #bowie #molting #scratching #head scratching #scritches #video #slowmo #fun bird fact of the day for you

[draconym]

Cheese update: he will sit on my hand as long as I don't try to take him anywhere.

#cheese bird #cockatiel #he's going through a gnarly molt and he may have to go back to the vet for another de-boogering

[makenna-made-this]

It's them: the LesbiHens💅

#do not point out how Smol Winry is from molting she's very sensitive about it #my feather babies #my pets #the lesbiHENs #chickens #tiny fluffy dinosaurs #the BEST animals #chickenblr #birdblr #pet bird #leghorn #they are so skrunkly

[northernpintail]

Spotted Towhee with a funny haircut

#birds #spotted towhee #original photography #original photography on tumblr #nature #vancouver island #nature photography #pnw #birding #bird photography #birdwatching #molting is weird

[sass-squat]

Part 6 of the Linked Universe Winged Au! After many requests this time around we've got our Veteran, Legend!

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As always we have to start off with a bird fact, so did you know that male White-Winged Crossbills have unpigmented barbules that mask their red color and are what make them appear pink in the fall? However, as these barbules wear off, the bright red is able to show through leaving them a brilliant red in the spring and summer!

Anyways, I found this fact to be very interesting especially considering Legend's adventure throughout Oracle of Seasons. Just the mental image of his plumage slightly shifting with the constant changing of the seasons was very funny to me and I couldn't NOT make it canon. Plus, I enjoy making his life more difficult than it already is because I also headcanon that when he was younger, his wings were constantly stuck in a half molted state because white-winged crossbills usually molt in the fall. In other words, turns out messing around with seasons and time has consequences so he was a very scruffy, fluffy looking kid growing up.

As for how he looks and acts now, he has many similar characteristics and behaviors of a White-Winged Crossbill. For example, he is a very strong flier, and his unique way of flying has given him a very aggressive and abrupt fighting style both on the ground and in the air. His style of fighting is especially effective in forests with a lot of trees because it allows him to dart between foliage and foes alike.

While his flight and fighting styles were influenced by the sheer number of quests he has gone on as well as his young age when he began, other characteristics and behaviors of his were also influenced as well. For example, when he was still just a kid thrown into his first adventure where just about everything in the world was bigger than him, he learned to bristle and fluff his feathers to appear bigger and more threatening to enemies. While somewhat effective at the time, nowadays it means he still has the unconscious habit of doing it whenever he is irritated or embarrassed.

In addition to his tendency to "poof" when upset, he also has a habit of picking at and pulling out his own feathers when especially stressed. He picked up this habit mainly because of his constant molting as a child but then continued it as he was went on more and more adventures. Doing it is second nature to him now, but it's a bad habit he's actively trying to break by fiddling with his rings instead. It's also part of why he's so insistent about preening the others because helping them quite literally stops him from pulling out his own feathers.

Anyways! I could go on, but that's all for now folks! Thank you again for all your support and kind messages! I really treasure them and they are always the highlight of my day! As always, feel free to let me know who or what you would like to see next! Thank you all again!

Bonus Doodle Feat. Wind taking a photo of Wild taking a photo of Legend inspired by this masterpiece:

#my art #winged au #LUWAU #Linked Universe: Winged AU #linkeduniverse #linked universe #loz #legend of zelda #loz link #lu legend #I'm a failure #I swear I had this art done like 2 days ago but I'm illiterate and couldn't write to save my life #Anyways. Making Legend's life and childhood even more difficult than it already was is my passion #Did I basically give him the equivalent of bird acne with his constant molting??? Whoops. #also that lil tidbit about pulling out his own feathers is a real thing birds do when physically or emotionally distressed! #I really looked at Legend and went “this bad boy can hold so many suppressed trauma responses” #I also showed this to @breannasfluff a couple days ago and she said Legend looked like he was posing for a picture #So I had to draw a quick doodle to make it canon #I use my time and artistic talents for good I swear

[fluffybird1]

The nibbler is molting right now so they look really scruffy!

#birb #birblr #pet #pets #petblr #bird #pigeon #columba livia #the nibbler #mixed breed #baby #squeaker #molt #molting #scruffy

[ostdrossel]

The Grackles

are also still around, and some are still feeding babies, but molting has also begun, giving some of them the best and most dramatic looks. As if they couldn’t already do that with their plumage fully intact!

#birds #backyard birds #Common Grackle #Grackles #Count Grackula #molting #birds of Michigan #birds of north america #birdwatching #birdlovers #nature #Ostdrossel #birdphotography

[horatioandalice]

Pascal has been doing a little Extreme Molting (he looks a lot better now, but he was looking pretty rough for awhile)

#budgie #budgerigar #parakeet #bird #pets #cute #fluffy #molt #molting #molty bird #Pascal

[fleshdyke]

btw tia just started his molt and he dropped the very top white feather on his crest so he looks stupid now

#he also dropped the exact middle tail feather so his tail looks soooo weird 😭 #he needed this molt though his feathers were looking gross. he tends to have really long and brutal molts so that won't be fun for him for a #while but he'll be all nice and fresh at the end #he will be dropping all his crest though.... i may be able to get my hands on another crest feather..... #rambles #birds #tia boy

[jessfandrawer]

Trigun Birdles 🦜

Companion to this post. Naturally.

Look up "birds playing dead" on Youtube to see where I got the ref pic for the last one.

The black palm cockatoo picture came from Unsplash.

#my fanart #birbs #cute birbs #birdles #bird #doodles #trigun #trimax #vash the stampede #rem saverem #millions knives #meryl stryfe #nicolas d wolfwood #legato bluesummers #milly thompson #parrots #I also had a gag about the plants “molting” at the end #but I didn't feel like drawing a lot of individual feathers #lazy art #derringer meryl #stun gun milly

[ziggystarling]

Oh my god these birds are like, the shape ever. Please i beg you can u post a vid of you petting them because my brain keeps registering the white feather bits as spiky and i need to know that they are smooth and shiny and soft like a bug or perhaps a mouse thank u 🐦

I would say normally they're pretty soft, if a bit sleek and oily on the contour feathers, but right now they're just full porcupine mode because they're molting.

#birds #pet bird #birb #birblr #starling #european starling #sturnus vulgaris #bowie #molting #molting season #molt season #petting #video #ask #anonymous