Good place to start to learn about orthinology?
>>16791869I don't know, anon, but I'll give you a bump because your pic looks like a weird 2000s NVIDIA demo, which I like.
>>16792057The wing-shoulder looks like an avocado, desu.
>>16791869Lots of online zoology courses you can do. Plenty of ornithology gigs counting birds for ecology jobs too
>>16791869wikipediaStart with a random article about birds, then follow your intuition, clicking whenever you find something intriguing. I do that each night before bed
>>16791869Buy 8x42 binoculars.Download ebird and do the bird of the dayMy university textbook was Gill's Ornithology.t. professional ornithology technician
>>16791869How is it that two avian dinosaur species, separated by billions of years of evolution, can mate and produce offspring? Does this work with other dinosaurs?https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/09/22/rare-hybrid-bird-found-in-san-antonio-backyard/
>>16794762>separated by billions of years of evolutionDo you think the common ancestor of two jays in the same subfamily lived over a billion years ago?
>>16794762>why doesn't my pre-darwinian classification system work perfectly?
>>16794775>Do you think the common ancestor of two jays in the same subfamily lived over a billion years ago?Are you saying avian dinosaurs sprang up more than once, independently, and can now mate?
>>16794779What part of what I said suggests that? Vertebrates as a whole haven’t been around for a billion years, let alone one specific subfamily of corvids
>>16794785>abiogenesis happens all the time and most new species are completely compatibleThis is the /sci/ I missed.
>>16795193Did you hallucinate somebody saying this?