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A gauche painting of a baby king vulture gazing at the viewer with puppy dog eyes, his beak nestled in his baby fluff.

Gauche sketch of @foxfeather.bsky.social’s baby king vulture, Yolo.

I love their ice blue adult eyes but oof I often wish they kept the giant dark baby eyes forever because they're too cute, I can't stand it!

It's hard not to just smoosh his little face all the time (and he loves it and pushes his face into your hands when you stop), it's too cute!!

I feel like most people dont know just how adorable vultures really are! They are the cutest!

A young king vulture standing on a table with his back toes crossed over each other

Yolo often stands with his little back toes crossed, which I find ridiculously cute!
You can see vultures don't have bulky feet and talons built for grasping/carrying like other raptors. Their more chicken-like feet are meant for bracing on food to pull at it with their powerful beaks, instead.

That is awesome! Yes, that is one of the places we went, we spent two nights at the lodge :)

A Blakiston's fish owl sitting in a tree, looking at the viewer

A Blakiston's fish owl sitting on a snow-covered rocky stream bank

A view of the sea of Okhotsk

The last few weeks I've been off chasing the world's largest owls (Blakiston's fish owl) in Hokkaido. These massive, muppety, eagle-sized owls spend their nights hunting fish in shallow streams in the Russian far east/China/Northern Japan.

Hi there! Yes, the previous project shops are open (it won't let me redirect them so there's multiple that all go to same place), the current one has all available designs on it: visionary-vultures-4.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Happy to combine tagua order with it, just send me an email

A bit overcooked but still good loaves!

Aww, that is wonderful! Thank you ^.^

A wild king vulture in front of a number of American black vultures

Hola from Costa Rica!
I am here for a work trip and the Raptor Research Foundation conference. We've seen nine king vultures so far, it has been absolutely incredible! 🪶

Happy anniversary!!

Two black vultures sitting side by side. One of them is laying down, relaxed into a flat pancake shape.

Nearly 90 degrees in Minnesota in October is crazy. Even the vultures have melted spectacularly in this weather. 🪶

A closeup of a young king vulture standing on a branch

They grow up so fast!
Yolo has lost his floofy baby pantaloons and almost all his baby fluff now. It will take him about 4-5 years to get his full, bright, adult king vulture colors but he looks different almost every day! 🪶
#lovevultures

A peahen and her chick sitting atop a mesh coop door in front of an old barn

The next generation of peabirds is coming along nicely, tended to by diligent moms. 🪶
#overflowingwithpeacocks

Young turkey vulture standing beside a gravel road

Young turkey vulture nested on some towels in a cardboard transport box, one wing skewed outwards

Been out of town at a work conference for a week. It's hard to leave; dropped a nighthawk off at the big city rehab center literally on the way to the airport . As soon as I got home, this poor kid needed help. This young turkey vulture was hit by a car while trying to grab some roadkill breakfast.

Distilled essence of coyote

An 'About Me' collage graphic of photos and text introducing Foxloft Conservancy's new Education Director, Sidney Campbell. Expanded text version at: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EJfA4n4Sr/

I'm super excited to welcome and introduce our new Education Director, Sidney!
Sidney brings with her a wealth of experience in managing birds of prey (and the people that work with them), and will be working with us over the next year to help grow and expand our education work.

I did it before too, before I knew! I figured compostable things wouldn't hurt anything but hadnt realized it causes all sorts of animals to come to the road. Thank you so much for changing your actions, too, it really can make a difference! :)

It's been a very busy week!
Almost all of our patients this week have been owls, mostly unfortunate victims of car strikes.
You can help owls out by never throwing trash out of your car (even compostable things like apple cores) - these attract rodents, which attract their hunters to the road. 🪶

That is absolutely fantastic. Child you and child me would have gotten along!

So-so! The bees themselves are doing alright but its been a very slow year because we had a ton of rain but at exactly the wrong times and solid weeks of wildfire smoke from Canada making our air quality awful (and inescapable). So not bad but not an ideal year for them (or us!)

Scanning for yum-bats

Should have known better than to order the BORRZOIÅNGAD from IKEA, everything from there is like that

Sized and materials - the huge ones can be a bit heavy but the one I have is medium canvas type and never bothers me with weight. I have a fancier leather one from another company for 'dress' but its not significantly heavy either. My first one lasted til literally the threads disintegrated :)

I do, I cant carry a typical bag/purse/shoulder carry things because of neck/back issues. The hip/leg bags take the weight off those areas so are my daily go to. Theyre also really nice for travel (cant just be grabbed and taken) since multiple straps hold them on. There are a bunch of options for

It is! I adore it, its my second (the first finally disinterested after more than a decade of heavy use). Do you use one too?

Closeup of a baby king vulture looking down at the viewer

Hey!
Did you know it's the best day of the year? International Vulture Day is here!!
It's a day to celebrate, share & support vultures, the most endangered (and misunderstood) family of birds in the world.
Take a moment to share a vulture with someone just how cool and important they are!
#ivad2025

All of them were super sweet and quite mellow, excepting one bottle boy (mother rejected him so was no other choice) who was quite pushy/mischievous and still in the process of learning manners around people (typical bottle baby traits!). Super nice little animals, very affectionate!

1000% less ornery and difficult, for sure!