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herpsandbirds · 3 months
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Black Crake (Zapornia flavirostra), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Limpopo, found in much of Sub-Saharan Africa
photograph by Mike Haworth
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todaysbird · 1 year
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the white-breasted waterhen is a slender member of the rail & crake family that is distributed throughout southeastern asia. the sexes are similar, with slate-gray upper bodies and white bellies, but females are slightly smaller. their elongated toes are used to balance on delicate water vegetation and to forage in the shallows. this bird feeds on insects, small fish, and invertebrates. they live solely in marshy habitats, and spend most of their time in or near the water.
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birds-and-friends · 2 years
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Yellow-breasted crake, Tim Hopwood
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An illustration of some crake chicks: Baillon’s crake (top and figure 1), little crake (figure 2) and spotted crake (figure 3) from Aquila v.76-77. Crake chicks begin their lives with black downy feathers before later developing brown feathers in adulthood.
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demonhimbo · 6 months
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My swtor character, Crake, has been living rent free in my head for a couple weeks now. He's a Mirialan padawan and the best boy.
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He just wants to help everyone, yes even the poor sith. They're just hurting!
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milesandmilesofmusic · 7 months
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Being princess has its perks
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Now, for your consideration, this guy.
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This
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oracleofmania · 2 years
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Reading Oryx and Crake for class. Everyone was describing Crake as an mad scientist and a sociopath and manipulative for not acting like Jimmy. When it was revealed that he's canonically autistic the look on my classmates faces were priceless.
Turns out I may be the only one who gets Crake as a character
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pastrygeckos · 2 years
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Oh, to be a tiny frizzy dude bobbing around in the water whilst your parents pop up once a minute for a snack and a kiss
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moonlit-mask · 2 years
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#7 for the ask game?
7. Show us a WIP!
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Woe, Crake be upon ye
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herpsandbirds · 2 months
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Slaty-legged Crake or Banded Crake (Rallina eurizonoides), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, India
photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar 
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hotsauceintheebag · 6 months
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"Immortality," said Crake, "is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be ..."
- Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
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n0isetanks · 2 months
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can't you see we're not opposites?
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senorboombastic · 2 years
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a/s/l: Carpet
Remember the days of the old schoolyard? Remember when Myspace was a thing? Remember those time-wasting, laborious quizzes that everyone used to love so much? Birthday Cake For Breakfast is bringing them back!  Every couple of weeks, an unsuspecting band will be subject to the same old questions about dead bodies, Hitler, crying and crushes.   This Week: In the run up to the release of new EP…
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sonicziggy · 2 years
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"Lamb’s Tail" by Crake https://ift.tt/u4v1jdm
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