Because Alliteration is Cool
This post will mainly feature Birds and Sea Birds cards, as well as some cards that boost the collections as a whole. Feel free to comment on any cards or add your own ideas!
#Caden’s Crazy Cards
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if you’re ever looking for some bird ideas, i have plenty
i live in hawaii and theres a lot of unique ones
i kinda wanna make a pueo card now
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The Fork-Tailed Drongo, found widespread in Africa south of the Sahara, is one tricky devil. They spend a significant portion of their time trailing other species, such as sociable weavers, wattled starlings and meerkats, and act as the sentries of the group. Whenever a threat approaches, they sound the alarm and everyone immediately stops what they’re doing and takes cover. Once they’ve gained the trust of the group, however, they’ll sound the alarm when no threat exists in order to steal food away from their fleeing victims. Truly the act of kleptoparasitism (being a jerk) at its finest.
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The Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker is a migratory woodpecker that spends its summers in Canada and the northeastern United States and the winter along the Gulf of Mexico. Its favorite food (believe it or not) is tree sap, which it is more than willing to obtain at great expense to the tree, but it also occasionally indulges in arthropods, nuts and berries, and plant buds. There’s nothing really wacky or wild about these little guys, but they’re just so darn cute and with a name like that they simply couldn’t be ignored.
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Named after its favorite food, mistletoe, the mistle thrush is a staunch defender of its food supply in the winter and will protect their mistletoe clumps and holly trees against any thieves. They’re also one of the first birds up and singing after any inclement weather, earning it the rough and tough nickname of “stormcock”.
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John James Audubon was a French naturalist whose master piece, The Birds of America, went on to inspire generations of artists and reinvigorate interest in the New World throughout Europe. Over a period of 14 years, he created 435 life-sized prints of over 400 species and identified 25 new species in the process. A copy of Birds of America sold at auction in 2013 for $11.5 million, proving once again how much people like pictures of birds.
A birder’s dream, a Big Year is a personal or informal challenge between birders to spot the most different species of birds in a specified area in a year. The current world-wide record was set by Arjan Dwarshuis in 2016 when he managed to spot 6,852 species.
Plume hunting was most actively practiced in the late 19th century when the demand for feathers for women’s hats was at its highest. At the peak of the craze in 1886, feathers of certain species were worth their weight in gold, leading to the extermination of an estimated 5 million birds in a year. This resulted in the near-extinction of some Birds-of-paradise and eradicated all large populations of egrets in Florida until they became a protected species later in the 20th century.
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One of the most prolific birds of North America, the mourning dove’s coos are staple background noises for backyards around the continent. Their numbers are sustained by their ability to raise up to 6 clutches of 2 eggs in a year in some areas as well as their ability to eat a wide variety of seeds and drink water up to half the salinity of sea water without getting dehydrated. In fact, an estimated 20 million mourning doves are killed in the US as game birds a year without substantially affecting their population. The passenger pigeon really should’ve been taking notes.
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One of Hawaii’s many astonishing bird species, the ‘i’iwi is a very prevalent and striking sight. Found throughout East Maui, Hawaii Island, and Kauai, these birds were mentioned in Hawaiian Mythology as having come from the demigod Maui, who gave the originally invisible birds their color. This was done to win an argument with another god on whose island was nicer, and as you can’t really flex on somebody with something that’s invisible, he brought them forth and painted them in the most striking colors.
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One of Hawaii’s many astonishing bird species, the ‘i’iwi is a very prevalent an...
love these guys
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