This is Zeus. He is a blind owl but still amazes people with his galaxy eyes.
Zeus was rescued after he was found on the doorstep of someones house,
it was thought that he flew into the house and injured himself because
he couldn’t see where he was going. His home is in the Wildlife Learning Center. (Source)
Looks like some sort of all-seeing god of prophecy.
This duck got himself all in a flap after inadvertently straying into the path of a giant Shoebill while heading towards water.
But it was all water off a duck’s back for the imposing 4ft tall bird which instead of eating his smaller friend, carefully picked him up in his beak and moved him aside.
Despite its fearsome reputation as a predator around water, the Shoebill seemed more concerned with completing its journey than tucking into a feathered snack.
These extraordinary pictures were captured by 51-year-old amateur photographer Mark Kay, at the San Diego Wild Animal Park in the U.S.
‘I thought the Shoebill was going to eat the duck, but soon realised he was moving him out of the way.
‘After the duck fell to the ground, he seemed flustered and just walked away. The Shoebill just carried on.’
Violet Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster) with feather detail. Iridescence in bird feathers is due to microstructures of the feather refracting light like a prism. Fossil evidence has shown that birds have had these structures in their feathers for at least 40 million years.
Starlings are weird. So pesky, loud and aggressive, but also flying rainbow wonders.
The bird above is the Common Starling, the type that got introduced to North America from Europe. What’s bonkers to me is, we got the most boring kind of Starling.
Y’all seen Starlings from other continents? BANANAS:
@elodieunderglass I feel these fabulous birbs very much belong on your blog.
I love starlings! The best name! The finest iridescence! The excellent glitter! The yellin! The fact that they were introduced to North America because One Guy wanted to fill New York City with all the (English) birds mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays! Doesn’t that sound made up? It sounds made up. “Yes, the Glittering Invasive Small Thing From The Stars has taken over because of… uhhhh… Shakespeare. Look, don’t worry about it.”
I suspect that starlings are actually a kind of reality-patch hiding a historical glitch in time.
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