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I'd say that's a Giant Leopard Moth caterpillar.
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Feb 22, 2021 19:26
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They look similar enough that it's hard to tell the difference reliably even when you know what they are, but I think this is a crow. Ravens have slightly thicker and more noticeably curved beaks than crows do.
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Feb 22, 2021 19:31
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poverty goat posted:
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Feb 22, 2021 19:31
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poverty goat posted:
Small triangular beak and no visible beard. Seems like a crow to me.
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Feb 22, 2021 19:32
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Cardiovorax posted:Location?
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Feb 22, 2021 19:46
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Synnr posted:i'm in kentucky but I'm unsure where the grocery store (Kroger) sources it's herbs. They just mention packaging in cincinnati I think on the box. It isn't really helpful, I know. Sorry. I've been googling around a little, but I haven't finding many good results. Have you considered just putting in a box somewhere and seeing it might end up hatching? I'm kinda curious myself now. It's likely to be some sort of lepidopteran, going the placement and the shape, although it's a bit unusual to see only one egg placed there.
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Feb 22, 2021 20:07
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Cardiovorax posted:They look similar enough that it's hard to tell the difference reliably even when you know what they are, but I think this is a crow. Ravens have slightly thicker and more noticeably curved beaks than crows do. this is how I was leaning but if so there are some bigass crows around here and it's rare to see more than 2-3 of them hanging out together, which is pretty raveny as I understand. that one that shows up at my birdfeeder from time to time always has a mate nearby and that's it.
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Feb 22, 2021 20:13
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poverty goat posted:this is how I was leaning but if so there are some bigass crows around here and it's rare to see more than 2-3 of them hanging out together, which is pretty raveny as I understand. that one that shows up at my birdfeeder from time to time always has a mate nearby and that's it.
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Feb 22, 2021 20:24
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I knew the egg looked familiar, and I think it's because I've seen leaf footed bug eggs that look like it, which bug guide seems to agree with although they can't narrow it down (there's something like 2K in the family): https://bugguide.net/node/view/529666/bgpage
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Feb 22, 2021 23:33
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poverty goat posted:this is how I was leaning but if so there are some bigass crows around here and it's rare to see more than 2-3 of them hanging out together, which is pretty raveny as I understand. that one that shows up at my birdfeeder from time to time always has a mate nearby and that's it. I'd say crow, too. Crows tend to hang out in family units, so a mated pair together the most and kids and related crows overlapping sometimes. I usually see pairs, with others showing up from time to time. Scrub jays often follow a similar pattern, and I think Steller's jays do, too.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:37
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Cardiovorax posted:Does Kroger not put that on packing material somewhere? Where I live, all stores have to do that. Maybe you could try looking. Yeeeeaaah I was a little confused by the "packed in" instead of "from" bit as well. Edit: it's from Colombia it looks like. The Red Queen posted:I knew the egg looked familiar, and I think it's because I've seen leaf footed bug eggs that look like it, which bug guide seems to agree with although they can't narrow it down (there's something like 2K in the family): Well, that's just a lovely little bug. Thank you! Synnr fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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Feb 23, 2021 21:07
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I found this flicker sleeping in my yard. He's sleeping, right?   It was pretty far from the house and there was no mark on the window so I hope it wasn't a window strike, though I'm not sure what else would have happened. In happier news, I spotted porcupines a few times over the winter.  One time I came up behind one on the path and it awkwardly slid down an embankment to escape. What adorable creatures!
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Mar 5, 2021 16:37
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Chinston Wurchill posted:It was pretty far from the house and there was no mark on the window so I hope it wasn't a window strike, though I'm not sure what else would have happened. Chinston Wurchill posted:One time I came up behind one on the path and it awkwardly slid down an embankment to escape. What adorable creatures!
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Mar 5, 2021 17:44
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I didn't want to spook them for a pic because they seemed to be having a good time but I figured out what my big corvid (e: autocorrected to covid lol) friends like to eat for breakfast
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Mar 7, 2021 16:00
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 (O'ahu) About the size of a fingernail. Hangs out in a tuft of grass in the large pen where my landlady's guard puppy lives and gets annoyed when I spray it out. Fortunately, the bulbuls can't pick it off the wall! ID: Greenhouse frog Stickman fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Mar 8, 2021 |
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Mar 8, 2021 07:21
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What an adorable little dude.
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Mar 8, 2021 07:58
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Nothing too exciting lately, but here are a couple terrible cell phone pics of birds: American three-toed woodpecker - haven't seen one here before, so that was neat.  Peregrine falcon which was shortly thereafter scared away by the local magpies.
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Mar 17, 2021 21:34
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Friends I need help identifying this feather. I've never seen one of these in central Arkansas until now. 
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Mar 19, 2021 02:07
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vortmax posted:Friends I need help identifying this feather. I've never seen one of these in central Arkansas until now. I thought to myself "man, those shafts are yellow, wonder what a yellow shafted flicker feather looks like". Turns out, that is a yellow shafted flicker feather, I think.
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Mar 19, 2021 02:17
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That's an awesome feather! It looks like a Yellow-Shafted Northern Flicker secondary? I had no idea FWS had an online feather atlas! 
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Mar 19, 2021 02:23
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Definitely flicker feather, we only have the red shafted out this a way but it's the same concept.
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Mar 19, 2021 06:56
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Thanks! It's extremely pretty. I'll keep an eye out for the bird.
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Mar 19, 2021 20:46
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vortmax posted:Thanks! It's extremely pretty. I'll keep an eye out for the bird. Flickers are woodpeckers, so you'll probably hear them first.
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Mar 19, 2021 20:58
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Cythereal posted:Flickers are woodpeckers, so you'll probably hear them first. I don't know if I've ever heard them pecking. I think flickers tend to forage on the ground and usually only bore into wood to make nesting sites. Regardless what you said is still true because they have a pretty unmistakable call! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EQeJBQH1nk
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Mar 19, 2021 21:04
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Not sure about Arkansas but many populations are at least partially migratory so they may be a lot easier to find for you in the fall and winter compared to spring/summer.
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Mar 19, 2021 21:31
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Mak0rz posted:I don't know if I've ever heard them pecking. I'm not sure if it counts, but just yesterday the flickers here started their yearly ritual of pecking the poo poo out of the plumbing vents on my roof presumably as a mating ritual. Last year I thought an inconsiderate neighbor was using an air ratchet at odd intervals until I finally figured out it was the birds. They're really pretty (these would be northern flickers) but holy hell they can make noise. Tangentially, I also figured that the flickers in my neighborhood, or at least one of them, makes a call that sounds like a small hawk - it's weird seeing a woodpeckery bird making a bird of prey sounding noise.
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Mar 20, 2021 05:39
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I've got a Green Earth Woodpecker here that comes by regularly (instead of pecking holes into trees they peck holes into the ground) and its call sounds like a tropical bird of some sort. Every time I hear it, I go "what is that thing" for a moment before I remember it's a woodpecker. You know that ululating bird cry that movies play in every jungle scene ever? That's exactly what they sound like, so I supposed it might be a really multi-layered case of misinformation in media and they actually do play a woodpecker call in those scenes because that's what people have come to expect.
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Mar 20, 2021 15:50
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Cardiovorax posted:I've got a Green Earth Woodpecker here that comes by regularly (instead of pecking holes into trees they peck holes into the ground) and its call sounds like a tropical bird of some sort. Every time I hear it, I go "what is that thing" for a moment before I remember it's a woodpecker. You know that ululating bird cry that movies play in every jungle scene ever? That's exactly what they sound like, so I supposed it might be a really multi-layered case of misinformation in media and they actually do play a woodpecker call in those scenes because that's what people have come to expect. Fun fact, one of the most popular bird cries to use in movies with jungle scenes isn't a jungle bird at all but a common wetland bird of the American tropics.
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Doesn't surprise me. They don't sound anything like that, though. Less rasping, more of a very smooth 'oolooloolooloo' cry.
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Mar 20, 2021 16:02
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I'm not sure if it counts, but just yesterday the flickers here started their yearly ritual of pecking the poo poo out of the plumbing vents on my roof presumably as a mating ritual. Last year I thought an inconsiderate neighbor was using an air ratchet at odd intervals until I finally figured out it was the birds. This is known as "drumming": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxre6H2l4-I Which I guess qualifies as "pecking" yeah. They'll do it on stuff like vent covers and other makeshift resonators because they're nice and loud. Probably not as distinctive as a woodpecker boring for grubs and they likely only do it during certain times of the year. Anyway I stand corrected. You are likely to hear a flicker before seeing one.
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this robin was near my driveway, seemed to have just dropped dead shortly before I went out there since it wasn't stiff or anything. No signs of injury or anything, just ragdolled. Looks well, looked healthy, too. Not sure how it died. Aneurysm, maybe?  
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Birds don't really get those, they don't live long enough for the blockage to build up. Same reason short-lived animals don't have strokes - it's an age-related disease. There's some fairly interesting science behind that. I'm guessing either disease or it was dropped by a predator. I'd ask you if the neck feels wobbly or broken, which is a good hint that a cat got to it, but I'm sure you'd rather not check.
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I just thought of something, it was off to the side of the driveway, near my car. It's possible it might've flown into the window and snapped its neck and bounced off onto the nearby lawn, and that's why there's no sign of a predator injuring it. 
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This might be worth checking https://www.cdc.gov/westnile/dead-birds/index.html Obviously there's lots of diseases that can kill a bird but west nile is one and avian flu is another, and some states would like you to report dead birds if they're trying to collect or screen for where the viruses are active.
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Apr 1, 2021 22:18
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Spotted this handsome gentleman when I walked into work this morning. He's out and about pretty early! I'm pretty sure it's a male from the fabulous antennae.
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Apr 2, 2021 01:05
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Leperflesh posted:This might be worth checking
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Apr 2, 2021 11:31
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bij posted:Spotted this handsome gentleman when I walked into work this morning. He's out and about pretty early! Yup, also, fun thing about Actias luna. The diapausing brood, the one that sits in their cocoons over the winter has much more saturated color, and maroon coloration on the wing edges. The ones that live their entire life cycle over the summer are much lighter colored, with nearly translucent light green wings, and brown or yellow or no color on the wing edges. Think I saw a Tri-colored bat stuck to a tree today.  
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Apr 3, 2021 23:56
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HES SO FUZZY
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I found a little guy like that with his wing stuck in a gap outside my window once. I managed to pry him out and tried to give him water, but sadly he didn't make it. They are exactly as soft to the touch as they look. No idea how anyone can hate the little guys.
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