Can anyone ID this bird?
edith head
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this bird looks so cool and i want to learn more about it and know what it eats. but i can't find anything cause i don't know what it is
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Cool bird, btw. What race you think he is?
hahahaha
well i know it was living in uganda at the time of this photo
Funny, he doesn't act like a dodo.
I thought he was Iranian
should be right... definitely a storck.
Ornithology Strut in effect! I remember those from my trips to the zoo. East African methinks.
DAMN thank you!
behold
they grow up to 54 inches (4 ft 5in)
this one kinda reminds me of that popular old lady/young girl optical illusion
i'm 5'2"
does every animal you like have to scare the shit out of me? dont you like koalas or pandas or something?
i like alpacas shig.
are you afraid of alpacas
Like...totally.
Hi I am a gigantic jelly fish and i sense fear and when i sense fear i want to eat your arm.
sincerely,
G.J. Fish
that's a nice photoshop.
ha ha *nervous laugh*
right?
right
this is real though
and they found this red fleshy one in the monterey bay a few years ago (nicknamed "big red"). it uses its arms to feed and is a meter wide
here is an article in the chronicle
dayum! is this really really?
i used to love pelicans...until i heard this story. a buddy of mine i work with was deployed to git.mo a few years back and during his lunch break on the patrol boat was feeding some bread to the seagulls off the stern of the boat. when he was done he went up to the bow to take a leak over the side. a pelican flew up to him and opened it's mouth and took all the urine.
after i heard this, i can't look at pelicans the same way again.
cas, that is a giant jellyfish but they aren't that giant. so yeah it's fake. i'm just trying to give shig nightmares
and i totally just lost all respect for pelicans
I know I'm late to this but Real Headz, plus every zoo placard will call this a Shoebill. Coz that's what it is.
No not TET.
The Shoebill, called "Whale-headed Stork" in some older literature, is a unique bird of uncertain affinities. As the old name suggests, it was once thought to be a relative of storks but its habit of flying with neck retracted and powder-down patches suggested an affinity with herons. But skeletal and biochemical evidence now show it is more closely related to pelicans (Sibley & Ahlquist 1990, Elliott 1992). Indeed, Sibley & Monroe (1990) reduced it to a subfamily of the Pelecanidae, but the Handbook of the Birds of the World is retaining it as a unique monotypic family.
Thanks. For a minute there I thought I was gonna have to revoke your Young Audubon Society membership. It's like a Ghetto Pass but yo pockets be fat with trailmix rather than duckets.