Corvus Mortuus Video

[tealin]

For those who wanted to see, here are some photos of the dead crow:

The Body (and a foot)
The Wing
The Head

Comments

[bananabasket.livejournal.com]

My dream come true!


Thank you!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

You are so welcome.

[dragonclaws.livejournal.com]

I think your poor, deceased friend might be a raven, rather than a crow. His beak is thicker than a crow's and his head is fluffier.

Watch out for Bird Flu.

And thanks for the stock photos! Now my drawings won't be so utterly pitiful!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

No, it is definitely, definitely a crow. It's way too small to be a raven, and his beak is nowhere near as chunky, though the camera may distort it slightly in the closeups. He's fluffed up because he had been fluffed up all day and was so when he died – he looked like a bird with salmonella, but I imagine any bird with a fever would have been fluffed up, and I don't have much experience with sick birds who don't have salmonella. Nearly all the corvids in my neighbourhood (minus the jays of course) are crows and there are LOTS of them; you can tell when a raven is around because they all go nuts and drive it off.

Anyway, I am wearing gloves and have a kerchief around my nose and mouth.

[dragonclaws.livejournal.com]

I stand utterly corrected. ^^

Yay for not catching teh ebil Bird flu!

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, did you notice that the White Witch was wearing a dead crow or raven on her shoulder during the Stone Table scene?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Is it a crow? I thought it was some sort of pheasanty thing... I never got a good look at it. Too distracted by Mr Gryle in the background. ;)

[niteflite.livejournal.com]

It was a raven. I have the behind-the-scenes book (which is what I have to turn to, because my dvd only has the bloopers and the commentary tracks. Sad!).

[cerridwen666.livejournal.com]

It's so beautiful in an utterly tragic way. Thank you.

[lumosart.livejournal.com]

I see you are wearing gloves. Good girl.

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Awwwww... so sad to see a dead corvid! :(

[priscellie.livejournal.com]

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing the photos!

[wicked-warrior.livejournal.com]

Thankee, that will be really useful next time I try to draw crows ( which will be anytime soon :P )

[soloproject.livejournal.com]

you make me wanna go out and kill a bird to draw :o

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I love how some kinds of birds have feet like dinosaurs, which makes sense as I heard somewhere that they're descended from them.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

YES! Have you ever seen an emu up close? Some zoos let them roam around among the patrons! With that serpentine neck, fierce, piercing eyes and scaly, muscular legs and claws, it's exactly how I would imagine a raptor would look and move (if it were covered in feathers)!

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

Never an emu. Seen a cassowary up close, though. They're pretty reptilian.

Edinburgh Zoo doesn't let the animals just wander around anywhere. None of them are actually in cages, though, and the king penguins get let out every day for the Penguin Parade, where they're allowed to walk about outside their enclosure for a while.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Holy cow - Cassowarys are even cooler! They totally look like dinosaurs; almost like a small raptor with the head of a pterodactyl! They are impossible animals that are, all the same!
Do people get to watch this Penguin Parade? Sounds great (probably rather humorous)!

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I was at the Zoo on a school trip in Primary 3, when we were doing a project on birds. The cassowary was right up at the fence, glaring rather evilly at us all.

People do get to watch it! There's usually quite a crowd. The keepers have their hands full stopping penguins wandering off.