Archiv der Kategorie: Vögel

Snap-shots of a Live Foodchain – The Seagull that caught a Garfish with a Sprat in its Mouth

Publiziert am 18. November 2022 von Markus Bühler

We all know depictions of food chains and food webs from books or museums, which show how small herbivores or planctivores are eaten by larger predators which are again eaten by even larger predators. But it´s incredibly rare to see … Weiterlesen →

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Curiosity of the Day: A Native American bag made from a pelican head

Publiziert am 5. Dezember 2020 von Markus Bühler

Today´s Curiosity of the Day is a very remarkable bag made from a pelican head. It is on display in the exhibition about First Nations in the Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa. Sadly the only available information was that it … Weiterlesen →

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The Nightmare Look of Naked Owls – how Feathers Conceal a Bird´s True Shape

Publiziert am 2. Oktober 2020 von Markus Bühler

Today I want to show you one of the coolest bird specimens I have ever seen in a museum, a bodycast of a barn owl (Tyto alba) with removed feathers. This gives us a great opportunity to see the enormous … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Anatomie, Vögel | Schreib einen Kommentar

Shit happens part IX: The fatal snake hunger of a grebe

Publiziert am 17. April 2020 von Markus Bühler

Bizarre deaths and accidents of animals were already covered for several times on the blog, especially in the shit happens-series. Today I want to feature an interesting specimen to continue this topic. This is a partially dissected great crested grebe … Weiterlesen →

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The bird that follows in the footsteps of the dinosaurs

Publiziert am 3. Oktober 2019 von Markus Bühler

Technically, all modern birds are dinosaurs, descendents of a lineage of theropods that evolved complex feathers and the ability to fly. But to be honest… most of them don´t really look very „saurian“ anymore. Those fancy feathers, toothless beaks and … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Dinosaurier, Vögel | Ein Kommentar

A moustache for the elephant bird – had Aepyornis facial bristles?

Publiziert am 4. November 2018 von Markus Bühler

A recent study in which digital endocasts of elephant bird skulls from Madagascar were examined, has shown that those gigantic flightless birds had extremely reduced optical lobes. At the same time, their olfactory lobes were very large, what indicates that … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter ausgerottete Arten, Megafauna, Vögel | Schreib einen Kommentar

Out-of-place flamingos at Bavaria

Publiziert am 24. September 2017 von Markus Bühler

During my recent visit to the Chiemgau Alps, I made also a day trip to Chiemsee, one of the largest Bavarian lakes. I made a slight detour to a nature reserve around the area where the river Großache issues into … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Naturbeobachtungen, Neozoen, Vögel | Ein Kommentar

The spiny wing quills of the cassowary

Publiziert am 12. März 2017 von Markus Bühler

Cassowaries are unusual and weird by nearly every standard, but the general focus is mainly on their flamboyant heads and necks and their formidable foot claws. But there is just so much more noteworthy about them. For example their extraordinaire … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Anatomie, Vögel | Schreib einen Kommentar

Don´t forget the blood and guts – for the sake of badass feathered theropods

Publiziert am 26. Dezember 2016 von Markus Bühler

Feathered theropods have some issues. A lot of people just don´t like them. Movies like  „Jurassic World“ have also shown that the mere idea of theropods being mainly covered in some sort of feathers or filaments is still far away … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Dinosaurier, Paläontologie, Populäre Irrtümer, Vögel | 3 Kommentare

Shit happens part V – grasped by killer mussels

Publiziert am 17. Juli 2016 von Markus Bühler

Bivalves are usually not the kind of animals which are regarded as potentially dangerous. But they can actually cause a lot of trouble or even fatal accidents if they accidentally grasp other beings with their shells. One of this cases … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Amphibien, Mollusken, shit happens, Vögel, Wirbellose | Schreib einen Kommentar