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welcome to my raptor taxonomy conspiracy board

Hi all, I’m Hawk, and this is my hawk blog. As you can tell, I like hawks. I’m a computer and electrical engineer, hobbyist photographer, accipitriforme identifier(and general obsessor), and guy with 20-something years of experience rummaging in the dirt for bugs. I am not an ornithologist or professional rehabber nor do I play one on TV.

This blog is mostly for posting wildlife content/naturalist memes and shilling for iNaturalist(join iNaturalist btw). My favorite hawks are Red Shouldered Hawk, Tyrant Hawk-Eagle, and Oriental Honey Buzzard. My favorite non-hawk birds are Shrikes, Scrub-Jays, and Great Potoos. My favorite non-bird animals are Marbled Polecats, Mountain Lions, and Foxes. I think all kinds of bugs are cool, but I’ve got a fondness for cutworm moths, ladybugs, and hoverflies. I’m in a parasocial relationship with salticus peckhamae.

Join my Naturalist Discord for pictures of bugs, taxonomy discourse, and extremely niche natureposting

I’m autistic and bad at tone, so if I come off as blunt in any responses/messages its usually not on purpose. Please let me know if anything I say is in poor taste and I’ll fix it ASAP.

You can find my own photography under #hawks photos, my identifications under #raptor id, my original memes under  #hawk tourism, and my personal posts under #hawk noises. A few other random tags are #hawk screeches for anything I consider ‘discourse’, #hawk talks for responses to other people, #hawks guides for iNaturalist user guides, and #hawks faves for my favorite organisms.

You can also find me on iNaturalist, on flickr(if you want to see more of my photography), and occasionally with my good buddy Kestrel over on @inaturalist-unofficial

As it says in my description, I’m a top identifier of Accipitriformes(Hawks, Eagles, Kites and Allies). While I do specialize in “hawks”, as nebulous a category as that is, I can identify most Accipitriformes worldwide, and if I can’t, I can definitely point you to someone who can. I don’t know anything about falcons, but Kestrel does. My accuracy with any other kind of bird is up to God. 

If I’ve commented on your photo/post with a species ID, its because I noticed there wasn’t one in the original post/tags and I think its valuable to include.

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laurelnose

did you know that the well-known factoid that male anglerfishes degenerate after attachment until they’re basically just a pair of testes is false? i knew of course that they don’t just become “growths” on the female because I’ve handled dozens of attached pairs and every male I’ve ever seen has been very much obviously a whole and complete second fish, but I sort of assumed there was internal degeneration, perhaps muscle atrophy, etc. i can’t believe no one ever corrected me on this but this just doesn’t happen. in obligatorily parasitic species, the male actually continues to grow and increases considerably in size after he attaches to the female, because the two of them can only reach sexual maturity together. me, an octavia butler fan: is this the height of romance??

what is true is that attached males do have hugely enlarged testes proportionate to the rest of their bodies & organs, and that they receive all nutrition from the female’s bloodstream so their stomachs are always empty, though their own gills seem to still be functional, as are their fins and muscles—you can even induce movement and swimming motions on recently dead attached males. I can only assume that at some point someone said that basically the only biological function a male anglerfish needs to perform is sperm production and this got taken out of context and luridly exaggerated over time. he’s not just a pair of testicles! he’s her forever partner! one flesh one end!

laurelnose

there’s a type of creature that lives six miles underwater in the sunless void and it’s hatched in two bodies and unless they find each other and fuse into a single chimaeric whole they can never grow up properly. hello? hello??

ducktoothcollection

That's extremely cool! also, distracted and enraptured by the writing style at the second link.

149panda149

hello??? deep sea scherzo fishes??