Joanna Holman<p>I am especially fond of Australian birds that look like weird things happened in the creative process. </p><p>Plains Wanderers look like a medieval artist who’d never actually seen a bird got commissioned to paint one based on a description </p><p>Tawny Frogmouths look like a toy maker was told to make a muppet out of dryer lint</p><p>Rainbow lorikeets look like someone handed their design sketches and a handful of crayons to a toddler and told the toddler to colour in.</p><p>Cassowaries look like someone couldn’t decide if they wanted a dinosaur or a bird so went hard on both concepts </p><p>(Photos mine other than the Plains Wanderers which I’m yet to see in person, that pic is from Wikipedia) </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/birding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birding</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/birdsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birdsofmastodon</span></a></p>