#mimid

[jadafitch]

Out today! Duet: Our Journey in Song with the Northern Mockingbird by Phillip Hoose is a great look at the history of this amazing bird. Did you know we used to keep them as pets, and they were almost driven to extinction? Now the northern mockingbird is the state bird in five states, and their epic songs can be heard in every US state. Also, I painted the cover. Available through Macmillan Publishing, Amazon and more.

#duet #mockingbird #northern mockingbird #book cover #illustration #book cover illustration #art #design #cover art #cover #bird #bird artist #mockinbird #mimid #Mimus polyglottos #jada fitch #illustrator #bird illustrator

[10751dmoon]

Northern Mockingbird

#nomo #mimid

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Scaly-breasted Thrasher

Photo: ColinDJones

"A drab-colored and inconspicuous species typically found from the middle level to the canopy in woodlands, where it mostly feeds on fruits. Song is a deliberate series of high-pitched squeaks and lower-pitched whistles. Most common call is a high, thin whistle."

- eBird

#birds #scaly breasted thrasher #birds of north america #north american birds #thrashers #mimids #birds of the caribbean #birding #birdblr #birblr #bird watching #bird of the day #Allenia fusca

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

How many songs do you know by heart? Whatever the number, it probably isn't as many as the brown thasher! This little bird has at least 1,100 songs in its repotoire, with some studies indicating the number might be well over 3,000. Many of these calls are mimics of other species, which males use to impress and woo females of their own kind.

(Image: A brown thrasher () by Burline Pullin)

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#brown thrasher #Passeriformes #Mimidae #thrashers #mimids #perching birds #birds #uncharismatic facts

[skinks]

#I always see so many winter sunsets bc I’m still working when it’s sunset at 3:30pm #but I never see proper summer sunsets bc at highest summer it doesn’t get fully dark at all and I’m snork mimid up tae fuck by then

[everydayesterday]

while chipping sparrows have ...one... "song" (various repetitions of 'chipp') that they can sing, mimids (thrashers and mockingbirds) can recall hundreds of songs, even those of other birds that they may not have heard in months. (n.b. this can make birding challenging at times when you're identifying a call)

I am thinking back to this because I just also remembered a song by the moody blues (psychedelia from the 1960s; my parents' old vinyl records) a few minutes ago, put it on, and was able to sing along. this, despite probably not having heard it in 15 to maybe even 20 years, and despite my memory issues. ("the best way to travel" is the song)

and the birds' musical talents don't stop there. a brown thrasher's repertoire "cannot be quantified easily" (per Sibley, 2001), as they can build up a personal jukebox of thousands of phrases, and can improvise complex tunes on the spot, which might last up to 20 minutes. they're just like us, making up songs in the kitchen as they bake.

#you just learned something #brown thrasher #mockingbird #birdblr #birblr #birds #ornithology #the moody blues #mimids

[magnetothemagnificent]

Crows: *Harass and mob birds of prey much larger than them*

Crows when mimids and blackbirds harass and mob *them*:

[id in alt]

#birds #last week I saw a bunch of Baltimore orioles mobbing some crows #and now I just saw a Northern Mockingbird chase a crow lmaooo #bird behavior #avian behavior #crows

[mawu-yama]

honk mimid and I feel like I temporarily went to another dimension. I can hear the cards

#maramblings #i swear

[megarabane]

JUST SAW YOUR ASK ON HELLSITE-GENETICS AND NEEDED TO SEND YOU AN ASK!! /POS

you are like literally the person i want to be with the bird stuff i absolutely LOVE belted kingfishers they are so pretty. they are also one of my favorite birds (i have too many favorites i cant just pick one) but birds are so smart and their feathers are so cool like omg i love birds

im currently a small senior in highschool/sophomore in college and want more people who like birds in my life :))

anyway whats your favorite thing to study about birds? mine is how smart they are but also like how bluejays have the feathers that reflect the sun to show the blue :))

[id: screenshot of two text messages that say "oh good i get to get [sic] explain this to you" / "you will regret this" followed by the ellipses of someone typing. end id]

FELLOW BIRD ENJOYER SPOTTED

(sad my ask to hellsite-genetics didn't get me a bird tho but i did get the added satisfaction of knowing the goofy goober song is a member of the genus i exalted in my ask so all in all it's a solid win)

let me preface all of this with saying that while a lot of my experience with birds and learning about birds has been in a classroom setting i've also spent *checks watch* three summers now (including this upcoming one) doing field work working almost exclusively with birds in the midwest united states, so honestly a lot of the things i've learned have been incidental knowledge i've obtained working in the field. i'm not an *expert*, i just have a BS in environmental science and a lot of birding experience.

full slapshod essay rant of me going on about birds (edit: i just reread it and good GOD i went on for a while) of me talking about birds below the cut bc i already know this is gonna be far too long but you asked about my favorite thing in the world so this is on you my friend (affectionate)

i'm definitely ENRAPTURED with how smart birds are. They're so fucking intelligent it's almost scary.

since you brought em up imma talk about bluejays first!! i did part of a project my last year of college on bluejays!!

blue jays will often mimic the calls of other birds, esp predators like red-tailed hawks, with such accuracy that even bird id apps like Merlin (shameless plug) will mistake a mimicking bluejay for a real red-tailed. when i was doing audio surveys for northern bobwhites we had to have a separate training day where the only thing we focused on was how to tell if a mockingbird / thrasher / blue jay was mimicking the distinct bobwhite call and how that wasn't to be counted as a sighting.

(in my experience a lot of it has to do with pitch, repetition, and completion of what's considered the 'full song' of the NOBO, since a lot of mimids won't do the 'full song' and will just handpick bits to weave into the rest of their noises. bluejays especially will do this. mockingbirds will sometimes do the full song, but NOBOs have a pretty measurable repetition gap between their songs, at least in the areas we were doing surveys).

i remembered learning in a class that some bluejays will find bird feeders and spy on them, then mimic red-tailed and red-shouldered hawk calls to get the other birds to scatter, so they can then fly down and eat without having to fight for the tastiest bits.

when i was working with birds over the summer, one of the things we did was setting ground traps for mourning doves so they could be banded and then tracked for hunter take (they're a game species in my state). there were always blue jays in those traps. they're so fascinating to see up close, with their heavy bills and tough little feet and they're so full of rage. and they're loud.

also the thing about their FEATHERS - YES. it fucked me up to learn blue jays are naturally brown. iirc it has to do with the way the barbs on their feathers are put together with modified cells, which scatter the light in a special way to make them appear blue. If you get a bluejay feather in your hand it's only blue at certain angles and the undersides are almost usually completely brown unless you hold them in the light just so.

blue jays are part of the family Corvidae so it makes sense why they're so smart, in the family with other birds like ravens and crows.

well i didn't mean to go on for so long about blue jays. they are wonderful tho aren't they?? <3

my favorite thing to study about birds??? hoooooo boy what a question. everything?? is everything an option??

habitat effects on population size and habitat selection at the individual level is fascinating. i've done a lot of work with population studies, basically doing audio-visual surveys (point counts) of how many of x and y and z target species live in this area at a given point in time, then using that data to extrapolate potential population numbers in an area as narrow as a few square miles and as wide as the whole state (i worked for the state department of natural resources so we were focused only on our state obv).

in that effort, using that information to both directly and indirectly learn what environmental factors affect which bird species and how was so so interesting to me, and some of them are things so small we don't even think about them sometimes!! if there's as few as a handful of pine/cedar/evergreen trees in a field or grassland, you're far more likely to find cedar waxwings and indigo buntings, and you rarely see them in areas dominated by deciduous trees. red-winged blackbirds love wetlands, and while they aren't (iirc) specifically wetland-dependent, something as small as a single pond is enough to attract them in droves.

behavior is also such a cool topic to me, which i've learned more and more about just by birdwatching and attending bird-related conferences and working with wildlife biologists.

birds like the brown creeper are bark foragers that almost exclusively move upwards along a tree. they'll start at the bottom and move up, and once they reach a point they deem 'too high', they'll fly to the bottom of the next tree and move up. conversely, birds like nuthatches, still bark foragers, almost exclusively move down trees in the same way - they'll start at the top, forage downwards, and when they reach the bottom, they'll fly back to the top and do it again.

the yellow-bellied sapsucker (woodpecker family), as the name implies, eats a lot of sap, so they drill holes into a tree, like woodpeckers do, but they lay them down in 'bands' that run horizontally around the tree, often with multiple rows on top of each other, leading to a grid-like pattern of shallow holes only an inch or two apart from each other. that's often the best way to figure out where to look for sapsuckers when you're birding!! (apart from actually seeing or hearing the little guy, obv.)

incidentally, i learned that it's really really hard to put backpack trackers on henslow's sparrows, not bc they're so small and hard to catch, but because they're smart enough to realize there's a thing on their back and will, somehow, pull the backpack around to their front and completely mangle it beyond repair, and that's before they chew it off.

god i could go on forever. kestrels. ospreys. owls. nightjars. songbirds. fisherbirds. albatrosses. puffins. kinglets. sparrows. starlings. they're all so good and perfect and wonderful and fascinating and if i could learn everything about all of them forever i would.

in an extremely roundabout way of answering your question, if you're still reading and haven't run for the hills yet, i can't pick just one thing to call my favorite to learn about birds. everything about them is so interesting and makes me so excited to learn and see and talk about.

belted kingfisher lovers unite!

edit: I DIDN'T EVEN TALK ABOUT TURKEYS EITHER I'M DOING TURKEY RESEARCH TOO -

#megara.txt #birds #ask #you found it #the bird button #ya push the bird button ya better be prepared to hear about birds #there's a channel in my dungeons and dragons discord server reserved for them to let me talk about birds #in an unsurprising turn of events this is why i go by starling

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Gliding in for the third 🐉Wings of Fire AUs names lists are...

The 🔥SkyWings🦅!

The X-Men Members:

• Charles Xavier/Professor Xavier: Charcoal

• Ororo Munroe/Storm: Maroon

• Logan Howlett/Wolverine: Longspur

• Scott Summers/Cylcops: Cinder

• Jean Grey/Marvel Girl/Phoenix: Junco

• Hank McCoy/Beast: Hawk

• Anne-Marie/Rogue: Rouge

• Remy LeBeau/Gambit: Ridge

• Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat: Kite

• Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler: Warbler

• Jubilation Lee/Jubilee: Jebel

• Evan Daniels/Spyke: Ember

• Bobby Drake/Iceman: Bunting

• Piotr Rasputin/Colossus: Pyrite

• Illyana Rasputin/Magik: Ignite

• Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane: Wren

• Samuel "Sam" Guthrie/Cannonball: Gyrfalcon

• Roberto da Costa/Sunspot: Sunstone

• Danielle "Dani" Moonstar/Mirage: Merlin

• Laura Kinney/Wolverine 2.0: Lark

• Tabitha "Tabby" Smith/Boom-Boom: Burgundy

The Brotherhood:

• Erik Lehnsherr/Magnus/Magneto: Eagle

• Raven Darkholme/Mystique: Ravine

• Victor Creed/Sabretooth: Vermeil

• Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver: Peak

• Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch: Scarlet

• Mortymer Tonybee/Todd Tolansky/Toad: Topaz

• Fred "Freddy" Dukes/Blob: Finch

• Lance Alvers/Avalanche: Avalanche

• St. John Allerdyce/Pyro: Pyrope

(A few more resused names this time around, but, they fit. These are certainly on fire, aren't they? And last but never least...)

• Reader/Bby: Jasper, Hessonite, Garnet, Bluff, Steep, Sierra, Alp, Carmine, Crimson, Cerise, Besra, Shikra, Owl, Harpy, Robin, Phoebe, Chickadee, Mimid, Jay, Magpie, Tanager, Sparrow, Coal...

#honeycomb thoughts #platonic yandere marvel #yandere platonic marvel #platonic yandere marvel x reader #platonic yandere xmen #yandere x-men #platonic yandere #platonic yandere x reader #🐉Wings of Fire AU #🔥SkyWing🦅 AU

[maryyy-bunbun]

pewo,,, ya te fuidte a la camita?? debed id a mimid pronto supongo,, aunque ed temprano pewo, mañana es luned, ed dia de claded o curdo de verano!! entoced te debed dedpedtar temprano,,, entoced deberiad dodmidte ahoditap,,, debed id a mimid,,, así que buenad noched limdo,, ahoda vete a mimid,, ¿Sipid? /abashito. nod vemod mañana >w<

#babycore #baby talk #baby pink #kaoemoji #kawaii #cutecore

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Blue Mockingbird

Photo: Ad Konings

"Only distantly related to our Northern Mockingbird, this slaty-blue Mexican specialty is an elusive skulker of dense thickets. It has strayed north very rarely into southern Arizona, where some individuals have been known to linger for several months."

- Audubon Field Guide

#birds #blue mockingbird #birds of north america #north american birds #mockingbirds #mimids #passerines #birds of mexico #birding #bird watching #birdblr #birblr #bird of the day #Melanotis caerulescens

[ladyluscinia]

For Frenchie's daemon, consider: a catbird! They're fantastic mimics, they winter in the Caribbean, and you get the cat joke in.

(Frenchie Daemon AU Post)

Lol I did have catbirds open in my research tabs until right before I wrote the Frenchie post, at which point I decided that they fell under all the same points as mockingbirds but not as strong (only living in the Caribbean in winter, sounding raspier and less musical) and I really should pare my options down further. Especially since I am still leaning stronger toward corvids for the superstition / being looked down on / high intelligence bit.

They are really fun, though!

The left image shows a grey catbird - the one most people are more familiar with that lives across the USA - while the right image is a lovely Black Catbird that lives year-round on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, but is also a mimid not known for mimicking.

#our flag means death #frenchie ofmd #ofmd daemon au #birds #ask #anon #ladyluscinia #was SO disappointed by that black catbird fact btw. totally would have put it above mockingbirds #except while they presumably have the biological skill they just don't feel any need to mimic things 🤷‍♀️

[crittercache]

I try to tag accurately, nav links under the cut. If you tell me your favorite creature I will be overjoyed and add more of it to the queue <3

Mammals

bears // cats // dogs // bats // red pandas // lagomorphs // marsupials // cervids // rodents // foxes // raccoons // mustelids // bovids // horses // primates // elephants // coatis

Reptiles

snakes // lizards // crocodilians // turtles

Amphibians

frogs // salamanders // axolotls // caecilians

Birds

owls // hummingbirds // corvids // suboscines // herons // wrens // jacanas // finches // falcons // cuckoos // grebes // starlings // picides // phasianids // columbids // toucans // raptors // cockatoos // parrots // turacos // flycatchers // icterids // vultures // anatids // sparrows // ratites // mimids // woodpeckers // tits // muscicapidae // dicruridae // tyrannidae // gruiformes // passerellidae // kingfishers // nectariniidae // bucephala

Insects

bees // moths // caterpillars / wasps // butterflies // dragonflies // beetles // mantises

Arachnids

spiders // scorpions

Gastropods

slugs // snails // nudibranchs

Sea Creatures

jellyfish // sharks // crustaceans // cetaceans // seals // fish? // cephalopods // rays // worms

[ao3feed-crimeboys]

Farther than the Stratosphere

by CrouchingTiger28

Technoblade was having the time of his life. The lights were dim, the walls, ceilings, and floors were a uniform steely gray, and he was forced to beat the pulp out of aliens every little while on a completely unpredictable schedule. He hadn’t eaten enough in far too long, his circadian rhythm was totally wrecked, and he was riding the wake of a killer headache. On the whole, though, not as bad as it could have been.

Philza of the Perfodio-Creo flock was kidnapped by Sky, a Mimid who runs a coliseum where people watch sapient creatures fight each other for sport. Philza happens to have an entire crew of dubiously sane privateers eagerly trying to get him back. If they happen to pick up a stray deathworlder in the process, well, in Philza's defense, Techno flock-bonded with him first.

Or: Humans are Space Orcs starring Technoblade.

Words: 3714, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English

Fandoms: Dream SMP

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Phil Watson | Philza, Wilbur Soot, TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Toby Smith | Tubbo, Niki | Nihachu

Relationships: Technoblade & Phil Watson | Philza, Niki | Nihachu & Technoblade, Niki | Nihachu & Wilbur Soot, Wilbur Soot & TommyInnit, Toby Smith | Tubbo & TommyInnit

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Space, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Alternate Universe - Aliens, Space Pirates, Humans are space orcs, Outer Space, Human Trafficking, Gladiators, Humans Are Weird, Alien Wilbur Soot, Alien TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Alien Phil Watson (Video Blogging RPF), Alien Niki | Nihachu, Human Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Fantasy Violence, Kidnapping, Fighting, Blood and Injury, Humans have A Reputation, language barriers, Sci-Fi, space technology, Found Family, BAMF Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Hurt Phil Watson (Video Blogging RPF)

#ao3feed #wilbur soot #tommyinnit #crimeboys #crime boys #crimebois #crime bois #mcyt #This is an automated process #If you see any fic that breaks boundaries #or the fic is yours and you don't want it shared send an ask #it will be looked at and removed if need be

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