I stopped by today the muddy pool at which I saw a Curlew four days ago, just to see this. White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla, 🇩🇪 Seeadler, 🇵🇱 bielik). This must be some exceptional muddy pool. I need to visit it more often.
Hey all, after some personal issues including the loss of a friend and serious illness of 2 others, I have decided to start sharing now and then. I started posting on a regional page and it has re-kindled my interest.
Here are a couple of local bald eagles. Enjoy your weekend:) #birdsofmastodon#baldeagle#birdofprey#raptors#birdphotography#naturephotography
My friend @MattyF is playing NHL96 on SNES as the Maple Leafs and opening up old hockey cards from the 90s on his stream if anybody's interested in nostalgia goggles. He might also do NBA Live 05 as the Raptors later tonight.
My husband and I just finished our fifth and final winter raptor survey for the season. Highlights were finding a big flock of Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches, seeing 30 pronghorn, and spying several Burrowing Owls staking out nest sites. #raptors#owls#birding#Idaho#CitizenScience
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (#IDNR) publishes a quarterly called Iowa Outdoors Magazine. They accept submissions so I've been submitting some of my favorite photos from the last few years like this one from 2023. Gives me a chance to re-edit & a trip down memory lane. The local & migratory eagles are the reason I purchased my 1st DSLR.
(09/21/23)
In the second quarter, the #Nuggets were down 22. But midway through the third quarter, something clicked. Joker scored 19 in the third, and Murray took over after getting knocked to the floor with 21 second-half points. Final score: Nuggets 125, #Raptors 119.
The numbers:
— Jokic: 35 points, 17 rebounds, 12 assists and six steals;
Joker woke up. So did Jamal. And, finally, so did the defense. #Raptors 98, #Nuggets 93, end of the third quarter. Joker already has a triple-double (31-14-11). #NBA@nba
So transness exists in many animals and not just humans. It's been observed but I'm going to give you a personal story from my personal life. My exwife was a wildlife rehabilitator. She went to school for it with a specialization in Raptors. That's birds of prey. Not Jurrassic Park.
They rehabilitate most birds but some just can't be released. If they can get along with people they become educational ambassadors. IE birds they take out to the public to educate on wildlife conservation and eliminate misconceptions etc etc.
Well they have a mated for life Golden Eagle duo. The boy is a little big but not so large that he's in lady eagle territory. In Raptors sexual dimorphism is reversed. It's important for later.
He has a wife. Golden Eagles mate for life. They do all the parnter things. Guard eggs. Have s3x. Normal stuff. but zero viable young. No young at all. They think maybe it's just a biproduct of the lady having West Nile virus. Organs move around and change in birds with west nile. It wouldn't be strange if she were infertile.
Because these birds are generally traumatized, and sexing of birds is prone to error they just don't do it. He acts like a guy. He is a guy. His lady love loves him very much. Well he dies of old age. It happens. It's sad.
So they do an autopsy. Also routine. Also for science. What is it they find in autopsy? Ovaries. No testes. No intersex condition. This eagle is a big masculine boy with ovaries. They had a married heterosexual couple with a trans guy and a cis gal ... if birds could be referred to by such terms.
Being trans isn't new. It's not a fad or a woke mind virus. It's not the Democrats or the Greens or the Hippies. It is observed in most animals capable of actually making advanced neural pathways. Some of the smartest creatures on earth are actually birds of prey. So guess where much transness is found? That's right Eagles, Hawks and owls. It's not weird. It's not unnatural. It's part of the normal distribution of thinking species. #Trans#lgbt#raptors#science#wildlife
Morning all. Bore da. It's St David's Day. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! And what better way to celebrate than with a lovely red kite (with parallel translation!). xx