foxfeather.bsky.social
Birds! Licensed wildlife rehabilitator and educator in Minnesota, focusing on vulture conservation. Also an artist, falconer, yak-wrangler, beekeeper, and owned-by-emus.
Foxloft.com - Vultureconservancy.org
654 posts
8,449 followers
433 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
It is! The horaltic/sunbathing behavior likely feels good, but helps clean all those feathers, too :)
comment in response to
post
Our vultures are all really friendly and like people, they'd be more likely to be concerned about why we were hurt than to want to eat us. They're very sweet birds and form close bonds, injured mates will care for one another :)
comment in response to
post
That sounds amazing! I love seeing groups of them like that, it's always really special!
comment in response to
post
Gosh our ducks too. While most of our other birds are hiding and looking sad, the ducks are having a raucous duck party
comment in response to
post
Gosh our ducks too. While most of our other birds are hiding and looking sad, the ducks are having a raucous duck party
comment in response to
post
Diva! But Sev was equally soggy
comment in response to
post
Vultures don't deserve the negative stereotypes they get, theyre intelligent, peaceful, loving, clean birds! We need a better (actual gross) thing to call politicians doing terrible things, for sure!
comment in response to
post
Soooon!
comment in response to
post
It will depend on the designs - we try to keep them as small as possible so they're comfortable for people's ears - the tall/narrow designs will be like the vulture and the short/squat ones will be more like the wolves (thinner metal can be used on more square small pieces, thicker for tall)
comment in response to
post
Please don't - vultures are really wonderful, peaceful birds who don't deserve the bad rep they get. Reinforcing negative stereotypes of them is very harmful. The politicians deserve actual gross and not harmful stereotype of wonderful birds ❤️
comment in response to
post
Absolutely! Especially our black vultures, but really all of them. They have so much personality!
comment in response to
post
I'm so happy you like it! I was really excited to work on that one, I'll always have to sneak in at least one corvid!
comment in response to
post
I understand! I tend to think of small creators/advertising on these kind of things to be not spam, but the issue is very real - even keeping things separated I waste a lot of time having to constantly clear floods of junk in my inboxes (and missing stuff that gets sent to spam incorrectly)
comment in response to
post
Thank you so much, Katie!
comment in response to
post
They get to be honorary birds, since they fly (and are awesome!)
comment in response to
post
Thank you so much for your support, I appreciate it a lot! ^.^
comment in response to
post
Ads are incredibly expensive and hard for small creators, so the ability to reach their own audience (i.e. people who have supported previous projects) is really rare and needed - I just (personally) make an email just for online purchases of any sort so I can glance at it but not barrage of spam
comment in response to
post
I am using Backerkit instead of Kickstarter for our new campaign, they send out automated emails that I can't toggle on/off and I know it can be frustrating for some folks but online advertising is incredibly hard for small creators, so there's not an easy answer
comment in response to
post
Have you signed up for the launch notice yet?
Don't miss out!
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
comment in response to
post
There will be! We have four new pendant designs as stretch goals :)
comment in response to
post
Thank you so much for the share and your kind words, it means a lot! ❤️
comment in response to
post
Half would run towards it at top speed, flailing madly whe the other half would run in all directions like dropped ping pong balls
comment in response to
post
Emus gather and do sinuous weavy side to side snake dances with their heads and necks while summoning eldritch horrors (can confirm, have video)
comment in response to
post
Yes, you can't candle emu eggs since they are too thick and opaque for it. Definitely adds an extra layer of uncertainty into the incubation process!
comment in response to
post
They do! The eggs have super thick, hard shells so there's no change in them during incubation or hatching
comment in response to
post
Yes, it requires a dremel or drill to get into them, its crazy that baby emus can break out!
comment in response to
post
These are unreleasable birds who cannot survive in the wild; their other option would be euthanasia. Instead, they lead lives where they are extremely well cared for by the staff of the University Raptor Center, and help with the important purpose of educating people about their kin
comment in response to
post
Seemed to be doing well! Just got to peek in between sessions :)