Melodramatic gull
/One thing this experiment highlighted: you never know when the old Voice Memos that you recorded on your phone while messing around on the piano will come in handy.
See also: Hastily animated birds, part two (Tentative Goose).
Beached As
/Ah, noo!
Gull and boats at low tide, Scarborough, ME
Video by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Turkey doodle
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Click above for a vocabulary lesson of questionable value, brought to you by the Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and his lesser known relative, the Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata).
“But... I still don't know what ocellated means,” you say. Well, if this turkey fanned his tail, you'd see concentric semicircles of eye-like spots, a.k.a. ocelli. Maybe I should have illustrated that.