important vulture updates

[radiantfracture]

Did 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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[sovay]

Further, condors (aka Really Big Vultures) can reproduce via parthenogenesis.

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.

[rydra_wong]

I too did not know this about condors!

Found an article: https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/112/7/569/6412509

[sovay]

Found an article

Thank you! The fact that it was not driven by a lack of appropriate males with which to breed! "Nah, thanks, I got this."

[malada]

I've always though vultures were really cool. Now I know they're even cooler!

[sabotabby]

I did not know that and it is very cool to know!

At the queer Stitch n' Bitch some folks next to me started talking about cardinals and I was like OMG DID YOU KNOW SOMETIMES THEY ARE INTERSEX and they also had all kinds of bird facts and yeah, it was that kind of scene.