#flightless birds

[proflambeovt]

Paleovember 2023, Dromornis!

Staying in Australia for a bit, turns out emus and cassowaries weren't always the only large birds to worry about down under! Dating back to the Pliocene, the genus Dromornis were titans of their time and place, with one species in particular, D. stirtoni, estimated to grow up to ten feet tall, making it the largest bird to ever exist! It's powerful beak and jaws allowed it to cut and crush vegetation (though it likely also scavenged on occasion).

#dromornis #mihirung #australia #pliocene #bird #flightless birds #prehistoric #art challenge #illustration #paleontology #paleoart #art #artwork #cartoon #digitalart #drawing #procreate #artist on tumblr

[appleteeth]

Rhys Darby as Native Aotearoan Birds

Kiwi

Pukeko / Australasian Swamphen

Pīwakawaka / New Zealand Fantail

Ruru / Morepork

Kākāpō

Kererū / Wood Pigeon

Kea

#this is so stupid but it's fun dammit #i had way too much fun 1. looking at pictures of cute birds & 2. finding pics of rhys to match #rhys darby #flightless birds #aotearoa's top quality sexy dads and complete idiots #rhys darby: aotearoa's hottest dad #stede bonnet #rhys darby is indeed a mystic time bird

[jokingluna]

Adapted from another Alexa joke

#princess luna #princess celestia #wedding #flightless birds #joke #emotional

[animalsandanimals]

Kiwis are flightless and color-blind birds endemic to New Zealand. Of the five recognized species, four are considered vulnerable, and one is near threatened.

#kiwi #new zealand #birds #flightless birds #cute birds

[kp777]

#new zealand #takahē #endangered species #flightless birds #conservation

[heartnosekid]

ostriches!!

for @onlinefriendsarereal!

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#stim #stimboard #ostriches #birds #sfw #black #white #brown #beige #animals #nature #flightless birds #aves #african ostrich #common ostrich #struthio camelus #feathers #wings #eyes #ishy gifs #requests #postish

[iowriteswords]

Lex Learns Batman's Identity - Preview Snippet from Flightless Birds Part 4

Lex has known Bruce Wayne for most of his life. They used to get dragged to the same boring parties, until Bruce’s parents died. (He’d disappeared for several years after that—he was too young to attend social events alone, and no one wanted to invite his guardian, who was a butler.)

Neither of them had fit in with the other kids, who’d thought that Lex was mean and Bruce was weird. This could have made them friends if they hadn’t shared their peers’ opinions of each other; as it was, they disliked each other more than the other kids disliked either of them.

He remembers one gala he’d been dragged to, the boys had been trying to set up some kind of game. One kid, he didn’t remember who, had decided, “And Lex and Bruce will be the bad guys.”

Lex hadn’t cared what his role was—he’d play the game to make the night go a little quicker, and when it was over he’d spend the rest of the summer with his mom. But Bruce had turned red and stomped his feet and insisted, “I’m not a bad guy.”

They were at an impasse. Eventually, Oliver Queen intervened. He often did, then, for obnoxious child Bruce, and later, for a very different but equally obnoxious teen Brucie, when he was old enough to come to parties without the uninvited butler. (When Bruce was six, Lex had watched him bite a man for calling him Brucie. At sixteen, it was how he introduced himself.)

“We don’t need two bad guys,” Oliver had said. “Bruce can be on my team.”

The game went on. It was a night like many others. But Lex is picturing that Bruce, tiny, red faced, indignant, insisting, “I’m not a bad guy,” when the epiphany hits.

He looks across the room at his son. His son, who now trusts him enough to do homework in his office, instead of meeting in public. His son, who’s dating, of all people, Bruce Wayne’s son.

“Kon?”

“Yeah?”

“Are you dating Batman’s son?”

Kon stares at him. There’s that split second pause that Lex knows means he’s about to lie. “No,” he says, speaking very slowly, like he thinks Lex is stupid, “I’m dating Tim. You know that.” He pauses. “Does Batman even have kids?”

“I suspect he has seven of them. Named Tim, Jason, Dick, Cassa—”

Kon bolts out of the room at superspeed.

Well. He left his homework—he’ll be back.

-

It takes Kon two hours to come back. When he does, he knocks on the front door instead of the office window, and he has Tim with him.

“You forgot your homework,” Lex says. He walks back toward the office, confident the kids will follow him. He’s not about to have some sort of confrontation with a teenager in the front hallway.

Kon sits down. “Tim’ll talk to you when he’s ready,” he says, then resumes his homework.

Tim stares at Lex for a long moment, leaning against the back of Kon’s armchair. Lex waits. He’s had enough encounters with Tim by now to realize pushing him is utterly impossible.

“I was born in a different world,” he says, finally. “Six of the seven of us were. That’s why all my paperwork is fake.”

“Batman brought you here?”

“Yeah. In my world—in my world you paid a psychopath to torture me for three weeks. I was fourteen.”

Kon’s hand snakes around the side of the armchair to grab Tim’s. Otherwise, he seems occupied with his homework.

“At the end of those three weeks, my kidnapper and my world’s Batman were both dead, I was insane, and you were the president of the United States.”

“You killed him,” Lex says.

“Yeah.”

Kon’s hand squeezes Tim’s; Tim squeezes back.

“Batman’s my dad. You aren’t going to ruin another world for me. Because you love Kon. And Kon loves me.”

“I’m not going to ruin anything for you, Tim,” Lex says. He’s trying to picture an even younger version of the very young man in front of him killing Batman. It’s an unpleasant image.

“I knew Bruce flunked gym on purpose,” he says, hoping to lighten the mood.

All the tension goes out of Tim, and he smiles. “He only did it to upset you.”

Kon comes around the chair to stand pressed close to Tim. “Okay?” he asks.

“Okay,” Tim says.

Kon smiles at Lex. “Congrats on being the second smartest person in the room. Tim figured it out when he was nine.”

“Well, accounting for universal variants—”

“Oh, this world’s version of me beat you to it, too.”

Lex decides to ignore that. He checks his watch. “We have dinner reservations. Tim, you’re welcome to join us.” He’d rather have a tag-along than wait for Kon to fly him back to Gotham. And they’d probably miss the reservation. Kon doesn’t fly as quickly as Superman—Lex’s contribution to his genetics, unfortunately.

#my writing #batfic #batman fanfiction #flightless birds

[dougielombax]

The Emu War began 91 years ago today.

Total madness.

What a fucking shitshow that was!

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #history #australia #emu war #wtf #what #no context #this is real #emu #flightless birds #western australia #colonialism #weird history #australian army #wildlife management #1932 #1930s #great depression #interwar period #military #military history #what a shitshow

[histsciart]

Dwarf Cassowary

Casuarius bennetti. These flightless birds live on the island of New Guinea. They have powerful feet with large, sharp claws on their inner toes, and they use their head crests to sort through leaf litter in search of food, such as fallen fruits, fungi, insects, small lizards, and frogs.

SciArt by John Gerrard Keulemans for the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. 15 (1898-1901). View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (@smithsonianlibraries) for digitizing.

#dwarf cassowary #cassowary #cassowaries #dwarf cassowaries #birds #flightless birds #New Guinea #flightless bird #ornithology #SciArt

[bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Weka

Image credit: Jorg Hempel

Weka (Gallirallus australis)

The Weka is a flightless bird of the rail family endemic to New Zealand. There are four recognised subspecies of Weka, but only two of them are supported by genetic evidence. When food is plentiful, they can raise up to four broods throughout the year. Weka are significant to some Māori tribes.

#weka #gallirallus australis #flightless birds #endemic birds #endemic #birds of new zealand #new zealand #birdlife #wildlife #ornithology #bird facts #bird of the day #bird fact #bird fact of the day #birding #birdwatching #birds #bird

[whatthefoucault]

... will anyone mind if I defer this week's Flightless Birds chapter (the second-to-last, nothing left after that but the epilogue) until next week, since we're gonna kinda be... distracted tomorrow night, what with the new Pirate Trailer and all that

I just don't want to steal the pirate show's thunder with my extremely popular story

#flightless birds #i can't believe it happened AGAIN

[dopescissorscashwagon]

📸 by Rachel Wood @RachelSTWood

#Rachel Wood #@RachelSTWood #Penguin #Penguins #Wildlife #Amazing #Flightless Birds #Beautiful #Nature

[swirley1618]

#funny #embroidery #penguin #penguins #flightless birds

[blessedbe-writing]

what is UP im blessedbe on ao3

im cassi im 20 and i have blue hair and pronouns (he/him). i made this tumblr just in case i or anyone feels like chatting abt my fics or yknow. batfam :) i might take requests at some point but im always at war w/ myself so we'll see abt that one haha

i write too many fics with one specific archive warning - turn ur eyes away if u do not like it <3

things u should know: - i do not want my shit reposted ANYWHERE. - if u wanna write smthng inspired by my shit, pls do?? but like,, link to mine so i can see. pleading emoji. - do not beg me for updates, i got the metnal ilnes and its hard enough to write on my own time. - i write fanfic for fun. i am not doing this to improve my writing or be the best. leave unsolicited criticism and i will delete it <3

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i am ass at being active on tumblr but just in case i ever talk abt my fics on here, here are their tags!:

series.

quadruple - #quadruple

flowermouths - #flowermouths

omegaverse - #aboau

i'll follow you, you follow me - #lolaverse

all wip fics that have not yet been posted! - #pending

specific fics.

(TW) night terrors - #night terrors

(TW) a different world (a place where you can't find me) - #a different world

(TW) i've never found a way to be honest - #way to be honest

meet me in another life - #another life

(TW) breaking the bones of flightless birds - #flightless birds

fics/series that will hopefully be started and posted soon.

the serpent is eating itself - #ouroboros

hands painted red with the blood of a brother - #hands painted red

your knuckles are bruised and my mouth is bloody (i love you and i'm sorry) - #bruised knuckles bloody mouth

like i just forgot to breathe - #forgot to breathe

dream i die - #dream i die

does it always have to end so fucking sad? - #endings

if it held me the right way - #held

#pinned post #where r my fellow menaces to polite society #quadruple #flowermouths #aboau #lolaverse #night terrors #a different world #way to be honest #another life #flightless birds #pending #ouroboros #hands painted red #bruised knuckles bloody mouth #forgot to breathe #dream i die #endings #held

[covenawhite66]

Dromornis stirtoni, nicknamed the thunderbird. It lived in the late Miocene period of Australia, about 8 million years ago. It stands about 2.5 metres tall and can weigh up to 240kg.

Despite being fossilised for millions of years, the microscopic structure of bone (histology) is preserved intact and gives us a unique glimpse at how the animal grew when it was alive. In some animals, growth rings (like tree rings) occur and, just like tree rings, they can give us an idea of the age of the animal, and also information about its health.

We found that Dromornis stirtoni grew far more slowly than the most recent "thunderbird" species". In the largest individual at least 15 growth marks were present, suggesting that they needed at least 15 growth cycles (years) to reach adult body size.

Osteohistology of Dromornis stirtoni (Aves: Dromornithidae) and the biological implications of the bone histology of the Australian mihirung birds

American Association of Anatomy The Anatomical RecordVolume 306, Issue 7 17 August 2022

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25047

#paleontology #science #biology #australia #fossil #bone growth #flightless birds #stone age #bone structure

[liss1989]

Flightless Bird

Tore out my heart

Ravaged the whole of me

Left me trembled in the dark

A flightless bird is now all I'll ever be

Separated my body from my soul.

Changed my dreams.

Changed my face.

A woman or bird, I'll never truly know.

Tied to rusted, useless tracks.

As the ones I loved laughed behind my back

Starved me til i was barely faceless skin, then said I was fat.

Told me everything i ever was, is now everything i lack

What use is there for me now,

A flightless bird and lover scorned?

I can never truly leave the ground,

as my wings and heart are forevermore torn.

A flightless bird is me.

A useless creature is all I'll ever be.

My potentials now obsulete.

A useless creature is all I'll ever be.

#my post #poem #poems on tumblr #poetry #prose #spilled poetry #love poem #sad poem #sad poetry #sad thoughts #death poem #dear diary #flightless birds #original poem #poems and quotes #poetic #poetic prose #poetry blog #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #short poem #writers and poets #sad quotes #sadgirl #betrayal #betrayed #true love #ruinedmyself #damaged #poems