Ngl, the first time my hen molted, I was verklempt. She didn’t get that bad, as she tends to st it in waves rather than all at once, but I was anxious as fuck all wondering if it was molting or some kind of disease
Honestly shocking that we didn’t discover that birds \subseteq dinosaurs until recently
It’s not that shocking given that all birds have feathers, and almost no dinosaur fossils had feathers until fairly recently (and they’re still rare as I understand it).
The connection was made in the 19th century, it just didn’t become mainstream until the 60s.
And pet peeve: “birds are dinosaurs” is only true cladistically speaking, but ordinary English is not cladistic. There is such a thing as a fish and anyone who says there isn’t can fuck off.
“\subseteq”?
LaTeX way of writing “is a subset of”
Neat, but, I have to admit, completely incomprehensible to the uninitiated 😅
Perfect, half of the sentences I say in real life are similarly indecipherable 😎 this is the #authentic #me
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the dark crystal
Why do he beak like that though?
Banging his face repeatedly on windows, car mirrors, and anything else remotely shiny at 6 am while I’m trying to sleep, maybe?
Probably mites.
I have yet to see this myself and I have a BUNCH of cardinals and blue jays. I do see the young “punk rocker” cardinals.
But the Internet says it’s true, this is molting not mites.
The only dark horror I witnessed was when a murder of crows came into the neighborhood and used my bird bath for their dark rituals for 2 weeks.
Maybe I didn’t see this kind of cardinal because they didn’t complete the rites to summon it?
The head is normal molting. The beak damage can be from mite.
Rethinking all those plans to befriend all the crows in the neighborhood
I was gonna say I don’t think this is a normal part of the molting process…
Botox, some cardinals just want that plump beak look.
Juvenile skeksis!
