buteo autisticus

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

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.

In conclusion, join iNaturalist. You want to sooooo bad

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draconym

A couple weeks ago I was practicing my owl calls on a night hike and I successfully called in a barred owl. My owl call is pretty good, but I've never called an owl to me from afar because I rarely do night hikes and so I don't get much chance to. I had expected to be really excited about this, especially since two of my coworkers are really skilled at owl calls and they don't usually get a response, much less a full conversation, but instead I felt so guilty. I eventually had to start ignoring this poor deceived owl that was following my call through the park. I felt like I catfished him.

draconym

Comment from pixelcurious: What if the owl could tell? What if it was curious about you, a human who can make almost owl-like calls? And that's why it was following you?ALT

I was gonna say "who among us would follow an inhuman voice in the forest yelling HEY, HEY YOU WHAT'S UP?" but then I remembered this website has me pigeonholed as Most Likely To Be Taken By The Fae. So. Yeah fair enough to this owl, I would probably do the same.

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Ink sketch of an owl with a disgusted look on its faceALT
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wild-west-wind

At work there used to be a sign on a few things that would say like "if this bubbles, run for your life" and "if you hear thumping run for cover" and "bears can and will kill you" and really in general I wish the park service was more willing to say "you are not at home, you are not at disneyland, you can die here and you can die so badly your family will have to bury an empty casket because no one will risk their own life to collect your idiot corpse."

Fact: Queue Will Never Go Into Space

Anonymous asked:

new to inat, is there any kind of etiquette to follow when IDing? is anyone gonna find it odd if someone with no profile picture is just identifying a bunch of super common stuff?

Nope nobody will find it odd! Random faceless account identifying tons of observations is like, 70% of the site.

The only etiquette is honestly just be open to feedback from other identifiers re:ids

for real one of the top millipede iders who wrote papers on inat data didnt have an icon or anything until checks notes a week ago nonody will care abt how ur account looks so worry not inat faq hawk talks asks

Anonymous asked:

what are your opinions on the iNaturalist Next app coming in to replace iNat Classic?

I don’t have an iPhone, so I haven’t used iNaturalist Next. My friends who have have said good things about it, and frankly I very rarely use the iNaturalist app for anything beyond checking notifs anyway because it is uh. not very good. So I’m all for improvements to the app

I’ll personally probably never end up being a majority app user but that is because desktop more easily facilitates me ddos-ing iNaturalist with hundreds of images at a time. Though if they ever add a halfway decent mobile ID interface its so fucking over for you guys

Anonymous hawk talks asks the app charitably sucks majors balls so any update is good update at this point