oh god I don't know what I'm doing

I got you booboo...

Flame Bowerbird (Sericulus ardens), male showing off cool blue berry to impress a female, family Ptilonorhynchidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to New Guinea

photographs by Glen Bartley

Flame Bowerbird (Sericulus ardens), male displaying and showing off his bower, family Ptilonorhynchidae, order Passeriformes, Papua New Guinea

photographs by Dustin Chen

Have you ever wondered where all the fantasy worlds based on African and Black mythology are?

Well, today is your lucky day.

Check out ZAIROO - The First Pan-African Steampunk Fantasy

made by a Global Team with love

all art is from the gamebook, we dont use ai

Our game includes:

100 Creatures · 13 Heroes · 13 Creeds · 12 Kin · 5 Kingdoms · 6 Adventures · 400 Pages

Albatross. Yes.

Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, Galapagos Islands

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

photograph by Diego Quesada

Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria fusca), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, Marion Island in the Southern Ocean

photograph by Rich Everett

Northern Buller’s Albatross (Thalassarche bulleri), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, off the coast of Chile

photograph by Pablo Gutierrez Maier

Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, South Georgia Island

photograph by Bruce Robinson

Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, found across much of the Pacific Ocean

photograph by Kat Paleckova

Makalena aka Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Hawaiian Islands

photograph by Isabella

Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris), coming to get you!!!, family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, Sydney, Australia

photograph by Meysam Makvandi

Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariformes, offshore from Auckland Island, New Zealand

PEENT! PEENT PEENT!!!

American Woodcock (Scolopax minor), family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, Bryant Park, NYC, NY, USA

Also called the Timberdoodle or Bogsucker.

photographs by Jenkepler Birds

American Woodcock (Scolopax minor), family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, found in and near woodlands in the Eastern and central US and southern Canada

photograph by Louis Brodieur

NY, USA - photograph by Rhododendrites 

Washington DC, USA - photograph by Andrew Tao

EAT A TASTY WORM!!!, Bryant Park, NYC, NY, USA

photograph by Bryan Kao

May I request some pygmy falcons and other small but mighty birds of prey?

Thank you!

Indeed!

African Pygmy Falcon (Polihierax semitorquatus), females, family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, found in Eastern and SW Africa

Body length: As small as 18 cm (7.1 in).

photographs: Stephen Temple & Sumeet Moghe

Collared Falconet (Microhierax caerulescens), EAT TASTY BUG!!!, family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, India

This tiny raptor is only 18 cm (7.1 in) long.

photographs by Sanjay Ghosh & Pompi Bera

Black-thighed Falconet (Microhierax fringillarius), family Falconidae, order Falocniformes, found in SE Asia

Body length: As small as 14 cm (5.5 in).

photograph by Zhongying Koay

Pied Falconets (Microhierax melanoleucos), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, China

Body length of only 7 1/2 in.

photograph by Lin hillside

Bornean Falconet aka White-fronted Falconet (Microhierax latifrons), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, endemic to Borneo

 It is only 14–17 cm (5.5–6.7 in) long

photos: Akshat K,  Andrew Hunt

Seychelles Kestrel (Falco araeus), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, Seychelles)

Body length: As small as 15 cm (5.9 in).

ARE YOU MAD? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?!?!

Yes, of course...

Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), family Corvidae, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

photograph by @mikullashbe

Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Colorado, USA

photograph by David Whiteman

Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), recent fledgling, EAT A TASTY PEANUT!!!, family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, WA, USA

photograph by Henry Degive

Oregon - photograph by Jeff Maw

Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, CA, USA

photograph by Ka-el Dino

Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Estes Park, Colorado, USA

Yes, sandgrouse deserve more love!

Here are 8 species for you.

Sandgrouse have been placed in the galliforms (pheasants and grouses) and columbiforms (doves and pigeons), but are now in their own order.

They may be closely related to the Charadriiformes or the Columbiformes.

Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata), family Pteroclidae, order Pterocliformes, Middle East

photographs by Tomás Martins & Moshe Ben Artzi

Painted Sandgrouse (Pterocles indicus), family Pteroclidae, order Pterocliformes, India

Photographs by Bhanudas Chavan & Pompi Bera

Burchell's Sandgrouse (Pterocles burchelli), B - male, T - female, family Pteroclidae, order Pterocliformes, South Africa

Photographs by Derek Keats

Yellow-throated Sandgrouse (Pterocles gutturalis), family Pteroclidae, order Pterocliformes, Southern Africa

photographs by Yathin S Krishnappa & Mans Booysen

Crowned Sandgrouse (Pterocles coronatus), family Pteroclidae, order Pterocliformes, Morocco

photograph by Francesco Veronesi

Namaqua Sandgrouse (Pterocles namaqua), B - male, T - female, family Pteroclidae, order Pterocliformes, Namibia

photograph by Yathin SK

Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus), T - male, B - female, family Pteroclidae, order Pterocliformes, India

photograph by Tisha Mukherjee 

Black-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis), L - male, R - female, family Pteroclidae, order Pterocliformes, Canary Islands, Spain

People have been asking for this a lot so lets get specific!

Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans) male, family Columbidae, Ridge Park, Singapore

photograph by Kow Hao Rui

Cinnamon-headed Green Pigeon (Treron fulvicollis), male, family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, Singapore

photograph by Hong Yijun

Thick-billed Green-Pigeon (Treron curvirostra), back - male, front - female, family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, India

photograph by Phani K Kalyan

Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon (Treron sphenurus), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, Bhutan

photograph by Narendra Athnikar

African Green-Pigeon (Treron calvus), family Columbidae, South Africa

photograph by Villiers Steyn

Philippine Green Pigeon (Treron axillaris), family Columbidae, Zambales, Philippines

photograph by Gid Ferrer

Little Green Pigeon (Treron olax), family Colmbidae, Raub, Pahang, Malaysia

photograph by William Ko

Orange-breasted Green Pigeon (Treron bicinctus), BERRY TIME!!!, family Columbidae, Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka