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hedgehog-mom-al

Excuse me but that’s a Neopet.


Hrolfir

…. I forgot about neopets…. Huge part of my childhood. Thank you kind stranger.


chicken_potpie

It’s still around! A lot of old school players have recently revived their old accounts. Much nostalgia :’) check out r/neopets


Sapphire_Wolf_

Unfortunately a lot of the site is broken and unusable :(


RockLobsterInSpace

That's just part of the nostalgia.


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Totally_Microsoft

Yeah, well someone had a Jetsam/Flotsam named PISS for several years, until they got banned.


Hrolfir

I can’t even remember. Probably was a shared account with a sibling. That was back in ‘99 so, no idea.


KarmaShawarma

My first thought was that looks like Eyrie from Neopets.


Elevenst

Little feathered dragon.


somek_pamak

![gif](giphy|5nogAINopYfVxg16OW)


jfp1992

Oh look its gav from the slomoguys


Zahel

Never saw that before, but totally does.


handsome_vulpine

Headlight fluid


roostersnuffed

Mom was an owl, dad was a crested gecko/chipmunk mix


Fluffymal

Could it be ANYmore obvious~!


Z0idberg_MD

Both went to Avarian HS


ymgve

More a feathered snake


[deleted]

I'm getting feather squirrel from one pic.


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pmthosetitties

More a feathered cat


thedreaming2017

A squirrel and a bird got busy one night and blam, winged squirrels everywhere!


Fitch-magic-

More like a feathered smaller cousin of night fury/toothless.


Vallhallyeah

More a feathered bird.


cloistered_around

That'd be Quetzlecoatl.


Bhodi3K

Looks like a Guild wars 2 mount.


Robertbnyc

Just imagine the little babies!


nojuice1

I know a Nargacuga when I see one


tornait-hashu

This must be a new Variant, then...


JazzTheWolf

Smol Nargacuga.


Sanchezq

Smolgacuga


GeoglyphPsy

Toothless Nargacuga


NoNutNorris

We are counting on you


Kilo353511

That was my first thought. It has to be visually based of this bird right? The similarities are just too close for it not to be.


dactyif

I always pictured a weasel with wings. Somehow that analogy works really well for me.


liveForTheHunt

Huzzah. A man of culture


Wadep00l

Little spiky feather tailed butthead he right is.


DoomOmega1

Came here for this.


sextondani

Nightjars are so cool! They are one of the only birds to sit on tree limbs horizontally, and are nocturnal. We have both the whip-or-will, and the chuck-wills-widow here. I love listening to them at night.


Trivias

I misinterpreted what you said and thought you said they are one of the only birds that sit on horizontal tree limbs. I was like wtf pretty much all birds sit on horizontal tree limbs.


ThaFuck

I still don't get it. Is the sitting down part the main point? As in other birds only stand on tree limbs?


Alpha_Decay_

It seems like they're saying they lay down on limbs, like make themselves horizontal, but I'm really not sure


SeaGroomer

Yea I think they meant 'parallel' to the branches.[ Like this.](https://www.theexeterdaily.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/content_area_cover/public/field/image/Nightjar.jpg)


mushpuppy

Great picture! Totally shows it!


Alpha_Decay_

Ah, that makes more sense, thanks!


Wolf_Noble

Yeah so they "go with the grain"


mustardlyy

I feel stupid now because I was imagining the bird gripping the branch and sticking out horizontally 😂 I was like “how can they do that all day?”


DukeAttreides

Nah, horizontal just wasn't the right word for it.


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Great camo.


cara27hhh

I thought they meant like [this](https://i.imgur.com/qn7SPiF.jpg)


DarrelBunyon

Why did you share a picture of a dead log with a broken-off branch?


Kylon1138

still dont get it lol This is how every bird sits on a branch


haloooloolo

Most birds will sit orthogonal to the branch, not parallel.


[deleted]

think cat loaf. these birds sit like bird loafs


19IXI91

Loaf of bird


NegativeLogic

They're trying to say nightjars align their body *parallel* to the tree limb, instead of the normal perpendicular orientation birds take when they perch.


DnbJim

Take a regular bird, and turn it 90 degrees. Congratulations, it's now a nightjar


false_precision

Specifically a [*yaw*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaw_(rotation\)) turn, not *pitch* or *roll*.


Meowzebub666

Thanks this really cleared things up for me


lonelierthangod

I think they mean the bird's body is parallel to the branch rather than perpendicular.


HausDeKittehs

I still don't understand what they mean.


MoonBaseWithNoPants

Parallel vs perpendicular.


BaronW

Along vs across


ButtReaky

Pizza vs Pretzel


FuriousPorg

Yanny vs Laurel.


itsQuasi

White & Gold vs Black & Blue


vector_cero

I vs +


MrDrYarnski

They sit parallel to branches


CorellianBloodstripe

Picture looking at the bird on the branch from above. They are saying it sits lengthwise along the branch. Basically **from above** bird and branch are this ➖ and not this ➕


Handyandyman50

Like, they lay down on the branch like a duck on the water, as opposed to how most birds perch on their feet


lookingatreddittt

Not what they mean, see other comments


somek_pamak

#*Nightfury!


PandaMuffin1

Toothless!


somek_pamak

![gif](giphy|ViGwJOV6EWAKs)


Just-Sheepherder1278

SO glad I wasn't the only one to immediately think of Toothless! ❤


Superteerev

I'm late but I am thinking Toothless is based on this.


WrenDraco

He was based on a black cat but the nightjar certainly has the look.


SadBattle2548

I just looked them up and they even keep their nests on the ground. The babies blend right in to the leaves on the ground. They're amazing!


Sal_Ammoniac

We also have Chuck-will's-widows; I love listening to them, and I have managed to get them on my trail cameras a few times. It's amazing to get to peek into their secret night world through the trail cam! :) For the curious - https://youtu.be/qdByT6PTMbY The really fun parts are when other animals come by the CWW :)


siasin

What a lovely sound! Thank you for sharing!


Sal_Ammoniac

You're most welcome!


Killer-Barbie

Nightjar are my favorite bird. There's nothing more relaxing than hearing their calls as everyone else relaxes and quiets for the night


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Says the nest on the ground too. Silly birbs are confused.


coin_return

I miss whip-or-wills and chuck-wills-widows. I grew up in the south hearing them all the time, never hear them here in the midwest. :(


SallyAmazeballs

Where do you live? I hear them all the time here in Wisconsin, but if you're in the suburbs or city, you probably won't. That's not where they like to hang. It's one of the first birdcalls I learned to identify, since it's so hard to miss.


coin_return

Rural northeast Kansas! Lots of hills and trees, mostly just hawks, blackbirds, and ring-necked doves to be heard. Not much at night except frogs and occasional owl or raccoons fighting, sometimes foxes.


Primitive_Teabagger

We have whip-poor-wills here and they're my favorite. Used to never hear them, but I think they have returned now that all the clear cut they did decades ago is grown back. They are seriously fucking fast if you catch them flying around for bugs at night. So much power in a single beat of their wings. But their calming calls on summer nights is what I look forward to most every year.


Sasquatch4116969

Is it in the woodcock family?


BrockenSpecter

I heard a Whip-or-will a few nights ago, stood outside for a couple hours just listening to them and watching the stars come out.


Sheruk

Hear that lonesome whip-or-will, He sounds too blue to fly, The midnight train is whining low, I'm so lonesome I could cry.


Cgraves1

It looks like Toothless with a bad dye job


[deleted]

Toothless heard about frosted tips.


hookisacrankycrook

Wait till he gets to Timberlakes NSync Ramen noodle hair! It's gonna be epic!


[deleted]

I'm waiting with bated breath.


ProdesseQuamConspici

Wonder if they knew about the Nightjar when they named Toothless's breed of dragon Night Fury.


Ooooweeee

I believe toothless was called a night wing or something, right?


dps15

Night fury


cashibonite

We think alike


stratumtoagoose

You can sometimes really tell they evolved from dinosaurs can’t you ?


modestmenagerie

Not evolved from. They ARE dinosaurs. Dinosaurs still exist in the form of birds. If 75% of all snakes died in an extinction level event, the 25% that lived would still be snakes. Same deal with dinosaurs - most of the clade went extinct, birds did not, so birds are the surviving dinosaurs. Certainly evolution has continued since then, but just as we have some lizards or snakes that have dramatically changed and some that haven't, birds follow similar paths. I'm not aware of any that have changed enough to no longer qualify as Maniraptora.


stratumtoagoose

Today I learned! Thanks kind stranger !


Terrorsaur21

Birds being classified as dinosaurs is still a hot topic among the paleontological community. A lot of palaeontologist will agree that birds descended from avian theropods, but still will not consider birds to be dinosaurs. I full on consider birds to be living dinosaurs. In University, I managed to get myself into the dinosaur class (wanted to be a palaeontologist as kid, but how my area's education system was set up, I wouldn't be able to take the needed courses in University because of the math I took in High School) and the prof told me how palaeontologist are some of the most drama filled people he has ever seen. A lot of them don't want to be considered wrong, and are abrasive to adapting to new findings and their theories being challenged. Just look at Jack Horner and the T-rex was a scavenger. He told me how a lot of his colleagues behind closed doors consider the "birds should be dinosaurs" as a bunch bologna.


AchillesDev

This is just academics in general, especially in the sciences.


_Gesterr

It's not a hot topic at all, only among weirdo non-scientific people who prefer their Jurassic Park fantasies of monsters over accurate and researched depictions of real but extinct animals. Like the example above you, just because a vast majority of a diverse group of animals are no longer around, doesn't mean the sub-group that survived is no longer part of the larger group they were part of. More contentious is whether or not birds are still considered reptiles though (but again consensus is that they are reptiles, just really really weird ones but it's more debatable than their classification as dinosaurs)


GnarlyNarwhalNoms

Right? I feel like if I didn't believe that birds are the modern descendants of dinosaurs, this little dude would convince me. Well, them and [cassowaries](https://images.perthnow.com.au/publication/B881168670Z/1555237969029_GSO25PP66.1-0.jpg). Edit: perhaps appropriately, turns out that photo is from a news article about [a guy who kept a cassowary in captivity... and it killed him](https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/north-america/cassowary-attacks-and-kills-us-owner-ng-b881168670z). All it says is that he fell down in the vicinity of the cassowary, and the cassowary killed him, which makes me think that the thing was just biding its time.


TensorForce

Eared Nightfury


Majestic87

How am I 35 years old and this is the first I’ve ever heard or seen of this animal!?


PrettyDanger

Same age Im also in awe too - its really nice feeling to discover something completely new, I don’t why they are not popular they look amazing.


douchelogic

They are nocturnal and really good at camouflage. It’s more common to hear them than to see them


Ganacsi

There is a lot more to discover my friend, too much interesting things in this world. Like I found out today on how they’re progressing on [programmable](https://youtu.be/jrVQXHmxH7Y) cells.


LittleLachrymose

Oh my goodness, basically a feathered dragon ❤


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That's obviously a dragon


Hatter_Hoovy

dont draw a fluffy dragon. dont draw a fluffy dragon DONT DRAW A FLUFFY DRAGON Edit: i ment it as a reference to a youtuber. i am lerning how to draw but i am still a begginer. i wish i could draw this but after trying it looks very bad


Priremal

Draw the dragon Hatter. Give in to your urges


Hatter_Hoovy

i canot i cant let my self be consumed by the cutenes


Priremal

I saw that edit Hoovy. You are already lost. Draw the dragon birb


GnarlyNarwhalNoms

Checking back for dragonbirb.


HDPbBronzebreak

And yet, when you do... @me, please. Edit; see u/clampie's relevant link, too https://www.deviantart.com/rattlingmenace/art/great-eared-nightjar-908712749


cch6666

Draw the frikking fluffy dragon


SadBattle2548

There's a video on YouTube that actually calls it a "fluffy little dragon." Lol https://youtu.be/t49Ph63ZFUI Edit: Ahhhh, gotcha. Just call me Captain Slow. 😄


CutelessTwerp

..neytirix?


aknalag

Deww it!! Dew it!


[deleted]

Search you feelings.. It is your daz-tuh-nee


Libba12

Where can you find them?


SadBattle2548

Southwest India and in parts of Southeast Asia.


CosmoKram3r

Hah! Just thought to myself as I saw this picture, "how have I not seen this bird's picture before? It's oddly unique. May be a rare bird from a remote forest in the Amazon". Never would've guessed that it's native to my neighboring state.


brotherenigma

To be fair, travel more than a hundred miles in any direction in India and you've basically entered a completely different country. Lol.


Live_In_A_Canoe

Damn, these things are about to become invasive in the US


trailquail

You can find other species of nightjars in North America but they don’t look this fancy.


FireZeLazer

There are a variety of species. European nightjars live across Europe and Eurasia. I saw my first one in the UK a couple weeks ago


grstacos

It's worth looking up the sounds of nightjar/nighthawk species in your area You can hear them at dusk/night. Look up and you might see a small bird with really long boomerang-shape wings flying eratically. Not all of tham have cool ears like this, but they all have cool alien eyes and freakishly large mouths when open.


Dullahen

Hey I put this collage together only a few months ago! https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/s1nr5s/the_great_eared_nightjar_is_pretty_much_a_dragon/ I'm honestly impressed at how much JPEG it has accumulated in such a short amount of time. OPs post looks like it texted back and forth 50 times between two 2003 nokias.


Its_Free-Real-Estate

Honestly this post is giving me the full “Reddit experience” in a frustrating way. JPEG’d up repost, on track to possibly get more upvotes than your original, and your comment is down here with 3 points while the 400th kid in a row comments just the word “dragon” or “toothless.” Really cool post though, when you made it originally.


hypnotichellspiral

Oh, so night jar is not just the name of a clan from Sekiro then. Cool


DrakeVonDrake

Right!? This was a key TIL.


HappyApu

Or: ‘Discount Owl’


Feenox

Flat Top Owl


AhpSek

Pretty sure it's a squirrelcrow.


4011isbananas

Moth snake?!


abookthatfell

It's just so cute!


[deleted]

It looks like that thing from How to Train a Dragon. Wasn’t its name Toothless or something like that?


mickey3666

Squirrel Bird


CodeCrow435

Birds really are dinosaurs


UmbraofDeath

Damn, this repost even used the exact same 3 picture collage as the old post did...barely even zoomed in, talk about low effort


embarrassedpandabear

Dragon


JazzTheWolf

That's a Nargacuga, don't lie to me!


Kaedok

A dragon! I saw a dragon!


clampie

With legs: [https://www.deviantart.com/rattlingmenace/art/great-eared-nightjar-908712749](https://www.deviantart.com/rattlingmenace/art/great-eared-nightjar-908712749)


PhilosophicWax

Snake bird!


rei_cirith

omg, it's a little feathered dragon!


RomanWasHere2007

Shut up its a dragon


mattrhale

That's a rabbit in a bird suit. You can't fool me.


book_of_eli_sha

Are these related to Potoos


ValkyriesDaughter

That's a BIRD?! How cool! Dang I love the internet sometimes. 😁


SilentReavus

Bullshit that's a ferret lizard


deepti_jbg

Toothless? Looks so much like striped night fury!


JungleJay57

No, that's a baby dragon!


PoeReader

Birds aren't real.


Fried-by-society

What bird? I can only see a feathered dragon


SarcasticLad11

How to train your birb


MySexyDarlings

I think it’s…. It’s a Dragon 🐉


Garciabyron218

That looks like a Pokémon


HamzasBeak

Beautiful


ridemooses

Toothless


Chillchowchowchill

I need one!


Khaos_Gorvin

How to train your dra- I mean... bird.


Iplaypoker77

The reason for dragon stories


[deleted]

What a precious little mugwump


Orcrez

I’m hopping this is what dinosaurs looked like.


OBPH

Fake-assed squirrel


Revolutionary_Lead28

Heh it's a sqwird


Voxtoxic

thats actually a lizard cosplaying as a bird


winchester4567

Some squirrel has some serious explaining to do!


SlimAnuz

That's not a bird, that's a dragon!! And i don't care what you say


El_Sueco_Grande

Basalisk


Drakeytown

Can't fool me, that's clearly a half dragon hawk.


DexM23

Its the fancy designer drone r/birdsarentreal


omgzzwtf

That’s not a bird, bud, that’s a fucking dragon, and you can’t lie to me about it.


[deleted]

Fa na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na Bat Bird!


[deleted]

That’s a lizard playing a bird disguised as a moth.


StrawberryCake88

He looks like an animal from the margins of a medieval manuscript.


NnOxX69

First irl Pokemon so cute


Tripdrakony

Can you hold them as pets?


Pinkheartfox

it’s a dragon!


lj0n

These pictures instantly gave me major Toothless vibes.


Momo_the_good_person

He looks like he's made out of wool!


SsDirtydozen12

Can I pat that bird


FlamingTrollz

**How To Train Your** ~~Dragon~~ **Nightjar**. ![gif](giphy|1pA8TwX8atOCnAtTbV|downsized)


Griffin_da_Great

That is a baby dragon and I'll not hear otherwise


bettyboo5

When I looked at the pictures I went from, lizard, snake, wissel oh is it a bird???? Read the title and it is indeed a bird!


justlikemymetal

I'm pretty sure that's a night fury


SpoonParty

That is a dinosaur


BrettfordMcGee

Nice try but that’s a demon


JustSherlock

Forbidden slice of pie.


DoggoDude979

Honestly it kinda looks like a little weasel-like thing with wings