important vulture updates
Feb. 27th, 2026 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
radiantfractureDid you know vultures are sexually monomorphic? Females and males look so much alike that it's difficult to sex them unless you personally watch one lay an egg (and even then bird genes are delightfully unpredictable). Just another awesome vulture fact I learned from the raptor centre insta.
Further, condors (aka Really Big Vultures) can reproduce via parthenogenesis. Here are some excellent queer bird stickers. I have ordered the asexual condor and the trans kookaburra.
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Further, condors (aka Really Big Vultures) can reproduce via parthenogenesis. Here are some excellent queer bird stickers. I have ordered the asexual condor and the trans kookaburra.
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Date: 2026-02-28 07:34 am (UTC)I had no idea. That's so cool.
Here are some excellent queer bird stickers. I have ordered the asexual condor and the trans kookaburra.
BISEXUAL OYSTERCATCHER.
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Date: 2026-02-28 11:07 am (UTC)Found an article: https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/112/7/569/6412509
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Date: 2026-02-28 11:12 am (UTC)Thank you! The fact that it was not driven by a lack of appropriate males with which to breed! "Nah, thanks, I got this."