Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog!

The birds on Greek vases are downright adorable! For example, this delightful lil bird!!! (And his aquatically inclined friend, too!)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.503. Terracotta jug, Cyprus, c.750-600. The lotus behind the bird is also quite lovely.

Coincidentally, this was the Wikipedia image of the day that day:

Scientifically named Tockus rufirostris, and commonly called ‘red-billed hornbills.’

I wouldn’t quite suggest these are the same birds, but they could be related. For example, the hornbills all seem to have glaringly white plumage on their necks and bellies, so perhaps, as the Met seems to believe, it’s just a nondescript bird on the vase. (I don’t quite accept that, however. To my mind it’d be better to say that we don’t know what kind of bird that could be, without offloading our ignorance onto the people we study.)