Post #2183366
2024-11-11 04:04 UTC
@LuluHelle@ohai.social Note: this is specifically a long-tailed tit, _Aegithalos caudatus_, found throughout Eurasia (https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Long-tailed_Tit/overview). *edit: removed subspecies, fuck IDing things to subspecies
I am not sure who originally took this photo.
For very similar photos, see Hajime Nakatsuka (https://www.instagram.com/hajime7212), e. g. https://www.instagram.com/hajime7212/p/C5fRxOERqqE/
Or this photo set, only credited to the Asahi Shimbun: https://www.gettyimages.ie/editorial-images/news/event/long-tailed-tit-in-hokkaido/775926524
While I'm at it, here's my blog post about why picspam (unsourced viral shit regurgitated around Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, etc.) is bad: https://out.flipping.rocks/blog/why-picspam-and-repost-accounts-are-bad/
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@LuluHelle@ohai.social 2024-11-11 04:57
@nev@flipping.rocks I think it's a sub species called Aegithalos caudatus japonicus
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@scruss@xoxo.zone 2024-11-17 02:49
@nev@flipping.rocks @LuluHelle@ohai.social my brother-in-law's family in Lincolnshire used to call them 'spoons', because of their very long tails