MonoMonday – Texture

One small evolutionary step from reptiles and dinosaurs!

I always find bird's feet quite fascinating and todays Mono Monday gives me the perfect opportunity to blip them.

These feet belong to a very old sulphur crested cockatoo that occasionally visits – he has dirty feathers (unusual as they are usually pristine white), half his crest feathers are missing and his beak is broken. I offered him seed – put it under his beak, but he wouldn't take any (maybe he can't eat any more and is therefore not long for this world). I think he may be the same bird that not long ago had a really long pointy beak (also would have made eating hard) and perhaps it snapped. I don't think I'll be seeing him around much longer though. They live for up to forty years in the wild, but up to 100 in captivity.