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Foxfeather Zenkova

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Artist, falconer, yak-wrangler, beekeeper, owned-by-emus. Licensed wildlife rehabilitator and educator, focusing on vulture conservation.

Minnesota

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Joined January 2009

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Foxfeather Zenkova

1 year

A reminder to take a moment and add us on your other favorite platforms! Here's a short list but there's more links in my bio as well. I'm super sad about what is happening with Twitter right now, for all its faults its been an amazing way to connect with different communities.

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4 years

Comet's first #dogshaming

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3 years

Teapots make nice tiny feet warmers.

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5 years

A very round baby falcon discovers carpet for the first time: She fluttered there (to her surprise) and her feet touching the new surface made her both try to do the bath dance in it and to kill it with grabbyfeet. #falconry #americankestrel #babybirds

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2 years

In case anyone thinks borzoi are dogs and not unicorn princess noodles: Cyrano came limping, crying into the room favoring one paw. When I ran to check the source of his agony, he had a small banana label sticker stuck to one foot.

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5 years

He knows he's not supposed to stand on the counter unless invited, so he has taken to sitting on the barstools to watch me cook. But sitting nicely is a lot of work, so it turns into slouching, then being a comfy pancake on the barstool instead. #babyvulture

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2 years

This emu has taken over the duck coop and is now diligently siting on goose eggs. I just watched a chicken run in, burrow under him, lay an egg, and leave.

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5 years

Sometimes, when the snow is deep, the ducks will give up on walking and scoot around on the snow like penguins

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4 years

I can't weed and wash the bricks because emus show up and flop down as soon as they see the hose. They love being watered.

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5 years

It's that time of year again, for 'Emus on Ice'.

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4 years

Tiny bird jazz hands.

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5 years

We can't have him inside while we extract honey, so he's had to stay in the sun porch a few nights. Whenever I go back into the house he tries to follow, then sits peeking in the doorway window, like "Excuse me, you forgot your vulture." I feel like such a monster

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Foxfeather Zenkova

4 years

Have you heard of the honey buzzard? If you haven't, you are in for a treat! These raptors specialize in raiding wasp & bee nests, eating honey, larvae, and pollen. Their head feathers have developed into hard, armor-like scales to protect them from stings. #birdtwitter

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5 years

Frank the peacock has been displaying to a moldy pumpkin all day

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5 years

This little cutie is watching me work. It makes working so much harder, because I just want to stare back. #falconry #kestrel

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2 years

Baby vulture breakfast dance! Baby black vultures beg like this, stimulating their parents to feed them. They are very enthusiastic about it!

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4 years

Another day of gardening ruined by emu-related intransigence, intereference, and indifference to my attempts to do home maintenance. I tried to sneak out with the hose when none were around and they instantly materialized, demanding watering.

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5 years

For your enjoyment.. emus enjoying bananas (Photos by Robin Burton)

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7 years

I walked into a strange, strange ritual.

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8 months

Emus catching snowflakes

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4 years

I feel like everyone could use a thread of very cute, fluffy baby birds right now. Bird1: Baby vulture!

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4 years

Untitled falcon game

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Foxfeather Zenkova

3 years

This turkey snuck off and succesfully hatched out.. one chicken chick. She is being the most loving and attentive mom to the baby, and seeing them toddling along together throughout the day makes me smile.

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3 years

Promethemus

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Foxfeather Zenkova

5 years

Your timeline has been blessed by the Dapper Halloween Vulture Sev, and and all of us at the Foxloft Flock wish you the happiest of spooky days! Please tell someone how awesome vultures are, today! #lovevultures

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6 years

Since it's that time of year again, please enjoy: Emus on Ice

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4 years

Don't let go of your hopes or aspirations. Dream big. #frankthepeacock #giantwoman

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3 years

A thread of spooky vultures for your Halloween enjoyment (courtesy of Sev) First up: Dapper boi

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5 years

He's learned to climb.. Now he cannot be stopped #babyvulture

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3 years

The ancient and noble art of falconry

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4 years

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4 years

The pure majesty of an emu experiencing its first deep snow

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3 years

Someone, who shall remain nameless, just vindictively threw a quail leg onto something I am painting after not being allowed to bathe in my dirty paint water.

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3 years

Rockin' that latest spring fashion from Paris

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3 years

I think most people don't realize what a 9-11ft wingspan on the largest vultures looks like - big vultures are really incredible birds!

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This Griffon Vulture with a massive wingspan being released into the wild.

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Foxfeather Zenkova

3 years

My family sent me a beautiful orchid for my birthday today and Stormfly immediately had to go check it out and claim it as her own. It was very nice for someone to send her princess flowers.

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Foxfeather Zenkova

5 years

Hello. I would like one food, please. #babyvulture

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5 years

No matter how many times it happens, baby dinosaurs hatching in my hands is absolute magic. #birdtwitter

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2 years

The best dad and his tiny child.

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Foxfeather Zenkova

2 years

After years of looking, I have finally found Sev a (potential) girlfriend! Meet Diva! She is a baby yellow-headed vulture, just over 5 weeks old.

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2 years

"This giant child, it is mine." Stormfly has been messing with chicken eggs lately and I wasn't sure of her intentions until I found her fluffed up and sitting on one. Actual kestrel eggs are almost 1/10th as small as large chicken eggs, but Stormfly has always been ambitious.

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Foxfeather Zenkova

4 years

Appa the highland coo, by far our sweetest cow.

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4 years

I'm so excited to share all 16 unlocked pins in one place for the first time!! Aaaah! ✨One week left to nab yours! ✨ #birdtwitter #ivad2020 #vultureculture

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5 years

I've been feeling rather micro-managed lately. #americankestrel #falconry

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4 years

Someone discovered that the electric tea kettle is warm to the touch and now it's her favorite place in the world #StormflySparrowsbane #kestrel

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5 years

In case your day needs a minute of break to watch a baby vulture playing with a pretzel #babyvulture #lovevultures #yellowheadedvulture

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2 years

For everyone wondering how the broody male emu is doing, he had quite an extreme surprise for us this morning!

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3 years

Wild snow leopard found in Minnesota, news at 11

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5 years

My tiny supervisor is grumpy because I haven't turned the iPad on for her to watch yet. She's been enjoying Dr. Who. #americankestrel

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2 years

Do you need to see the cutest baby vulture in existence this morning? Diva thinks the answer is yes, and I have to agree! #lovevultures

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Foxfeather Zenkova

4 years

Did you know baby turkeys strut and display even when they are still little frizzy fluffballs? They get nervous about it and blush, and if they get rejected (which is inevitable, they impress no girls) they sulk and pout.

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2 years

Best dad emu brings his little girls to visit me while I'm in the kitchen each morning.

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2 years

More perfect, fae children have emerged from the woods today.

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5 years

She keeps trying to stay up to watch me work but she relaxes down into a sleepy puddle, then wakes with a quiet peep and gives me this face.

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1 year

I think I'm totally doing this right! Vultures have a stomach 100x more acidic than a human, more acidic than battery acid. This lets them neutralize pathogens like anthrax, botulism, and rabies, purifying the environment! They are the powerhouses of nature's cleaning crew.

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5 years

He's older but still does the 'see your foot, touch it with mine. Sleep on the foot.' Now with added winghugs. #babyvulture

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5 years

A vulture's natural prey: the wily frozen brussel sprout #babyvulture

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5 years

Everything is so hard right now I want to offer some hopeful good things: emu eggs in the process of hatching. The little whistling peeps are the babies inside, calling back to my voice. (Apologies for dog burp and parrot accompaniments) #birdtwitter

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Foxfeather Zenkova

3 years

I keep telling my husband that *everyone* looks bad when you take photos from below. Case in point, this absolute unit of an emu.

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Foxfeather Zenkova

7 years

The new doorbell cover has successfully foiled the emus.

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Foxfeather Zenkova

5 years

I've been so sick I've barely been able to get out of bed. Stormfly came looking for me. Having discovered where I've been hiding, she decided that alternately jumping on my face and attacking the blankets is definitely helpful. You never know, they may be full of mice.

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5 years

She can go anywhere during the day, but her favorite thing to do is sit on me while I work. She also hops onto my desk to attack all my pencils, toss my paperwork onto the floor, and track kestrel tracks across my paintings. #stormflysparrowsbane #kestrel #falconry

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3 years

When snow is deep, ducks will scoot around on their bellies like penguins

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2 years

Oh nooooooo

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4 years

When you want to murder but also want a bath. #whynotboth #StormflySparrowsbane

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5 years

We're getting much better at using our hoppyflaps! #babyvulture #lovevultures #yellowheadedvulture

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3 years

Lots of people have asked about how emus react to snow, so I present: Emus in winter, a thread. (Zal is a leucistic emu, so he's white with blue eyes - it's one of the few color morphs we know of in emu.)

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3 years

This cute little friend tumbled out of someone's chimney today. I usually only take birds, but I'm the only rehabber in my area so he's here for needed fluids & some tlc until I can get him to the big center. They care for over 200 bats interrupted in hibernation each winter!

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5 years

Baby vulture loves to rest her wings on me. Streeeetttch! #lovevultures #savevultures

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4 years

Everyone keeps asking if the baby emus will still cuddle/be friendly as adults. Raised this way, yes - all our adults are friendly. Not all of them want to be touched but some of them love hugs and pets and come smoosh against me when I'm outside.

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4 years

Someone had a very bad Monday morning.

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5 years

Baby dinosaurs wish to brighten your timeline. #eggwatch #birdtwitter

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5 years

My husband came crawling into the bedroom, I immediately worried what was wrong? Then I noticed the baby vulture on his back. Mbala had been reading on the floor and the baby was so happy there he didn't want to move him. Now it's the Vulture Train to Azkaban! Bedtime for birds.

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5 years

I use the vacuum, he's got to touch it and pull the house around, too. I wash the floor with a rag, he steals it and drags it around, too. I've worked with plenty of birds who were curious about what I was doing, but never one who was such a thoughtful mimic! #babyvulture

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5 years

Stormfly seems exceptionally happy that I am home. She has reached maximum fluff. She is following me around and supervising the printing of shipping labels once again. She seems quite sure that mice may fall out of the printer at any moment, so it warrants very close observation

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2 years

Two weeks later, our emu is still carefully sitting atop his nest of adopted goose, duck, and chicken eggs.. he may actually hatch something. In emus, only the males incubate eggs and care for babies, the females lay eggs and bounce; that's the end of parenting for them.

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5 years

Learning to flap oversized wings comes with a lot of wobbling and faceplanting. #vulturesrock #savevultures #yellowheadedvulture #babyvulture

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Foxfeather Zenkova

5 years

For those of you who are new here, and for everyone who has been following along with the saga, let me present to you : The story of Napoleon, the wayward rooster, and Turkey Girl, his star-crossed lover. Part 1: #birdtwitter

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6 months

BB-8 did it again; after almost two months never leaving his nest, even through a blizzard, he's successfully hatched out chicks, three so far. He's such a devoted dad!

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5 years

Sev wants to help remind people to keep one vulture between themselves any anyone else right now. Just another way vultures can help keep us safe!

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5 years

Somebody is just starting to get the beginnings of yellow color on his face :) In the next few years his eyes will turn bright red and his face will turn a vibrant mix of yellow, orange, red, and blue as he morphs into an adult. But he'll always by my #babyvulture

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2 years

We just learned to stand, so our legs are still wobbly. Our hoppyflaps are just coming in and we're not quite sure how to deploy them yet, but practice makes perfect! #babyvulture #lovevultures

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5 years

She has gotten over her screaming at the snow outside the windows and is now back to supervising my work. #kestrel #falconry #birdtwitter

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5 years

Good morning!

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5 years

Strutting on the stairs! Oh no, I've been discovered... I'll do the 'im just a baby' appeasement dance. It is very effective. #babyvulture

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5 years

Happy, sleepy baby falcon can't keep her eyes open. #stormflysparrowsbane #kestrel #falconry #babybird

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5 years

He got over his fears and is now Vulture S. Pumpkins

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5 years

It's really fun to see how his eyes move. He's just being a thoughtful pancake, watching the chicken politics outside. (noise warning: roosters crowing) #babyvulture

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5 years

I messaged my husband asking how the birds were (because I can't stand to be away from them for a few hours), he sent me this (Sound warning - bird squeaking) Stormfly absolutely loves him. She's super quiet (when not yelling at snow), but she uses this call just for him

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Foxfeather Zenkova

4 years

Stormfly flew over and very lovingly inserted a piece of chick meat into my ear. How is your morning?

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2 years

Diva does the same 'my foot should be touching your foot' thing that Sev did as a baby. Vultures are very gentle, loving parents and spend a lot of time cuddling with their chicks. They are very sweet, sensitive, gentle birds! #lovevultures

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3 years

Our goose throuple has managed to make one goose this year, and they are very proud and doting parents. The gosling already has 100% of their sassy attitude. (They're terrible incubators and try to rotate between multiple nests so it's amazing a chick hatched at all. Superchick.)

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3 years

People always ask if the emus are friendly. Ours love to be pet and want to be in the middle of anything we're doing. If well socialized around people, emus can be super friendly and affectionate.

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3 years

It's my favorite holiday, #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay ! In celebration, I am going to post some of my favorite photos of #SevTheVulture from growing up. Take a moment to tell someone how awesome and important vultures are today! #IVAD #IVAD2021 #LoveVultures

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2 years

Oh.. oh no (And then there were two...)

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5 years

It is I, the human, sitting at the dining table, like humans do. #babyvulture

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3 years

One dog foot, one emu foot, what manner of creature haunts our yard

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3 years

This is too pure. From fellow falconer Hesper Lana Fang (shared with permission)

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