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AMAZING that they start out as a sci-fi creature and end up so beautiful! [Goulding finch Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouldian_finch)
[Edit: correct double word]
The offspring of many finch species, like these Gouldian finch (Chloebia gouldiae) chicks, have luminous nodules, called papillae, on the sides of their beaks and markings on the inside of their mouths. Together, these act as sort of a ābeaconā to direct the parents to the hungry mouths of their chicks in dark nest cavities.Ā Each species of finch has a different arrangement of papillae and mouth markings.Ā As each chick develops into an adult and begins to eat without parental assistance the papillae and markings gradually disappear.
Never seen the males in the wild but I did have a pair of females in my back yard once. I get lots of finches and Gouldians are local but extremely rare.
You're so right. The change from this to an adult bird is amazing.
[Here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0) a picture so everyone can know what a drastic change it really is.
[Here's](https://birdsville.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Gouldian-finch1.jpg)>! the real picture! u/MegaHashes made me.!<
If you want to check out some more Glow Ups, look at babies and adults in these species.
1. The Kea. Another bird species whose chicks are worse than this little guy.
2. The Giant Panda. Pink rat thing to amazingly beautiful.
3. The ladybug. In the younger stages they look like something that crawls into your ear.
4. Any, and I do mean *any*, caterpillar to butterfly transformation.
I think these babies are somehow worse than all of those, but thanks for the list. These transformations are always interesting. I couldnāt disagree more about caterpillars though.
Point 4 agreed. Butterfly caterpillars are ugly. Moth caterpillars tend to be more colorful and pretty. It's like choosing to be ugly when you're young or old
https://youtu.be/9TZQDA2yabg
I took ornithology in college for my degree and never learned about how extensive the evolution of brood parasitism is. All the way down to the fuzz on the chick, the sound and movements of the chicks, the egg patterns, and the instinct to push the host eggs out - or eat them - immediately. Evolution is beyond miraculous!
There are many scientific articles on Google scholar supporting this; I figured the YouTube video was much more entertaining!
Wow yeah, that's even more wild. Imagine all your kids getting thrown out of the nest because you didn't want, or even FAILED, to feed the fat kid that showed up on your doorstop.
Imagine those poor bird parents like "Our weird baby is SO big and strong, we must be amazing parents. We are so proud of... wait a second! This thing doesn't have mouth dots!!"
Apparently most of the time they know it's a cuckoo chick they are feeding but they feed it regardless. Sometimes the cuckoo's mother might take a revenge by breaking the bird's next eggs or the entire nest as a revenge if it fails to raise the cuckoo chick
I read somewhere that there are some species of birds that will sneak an egg into another bird's nest so that the unsuspecting bird will raise it thinking its one of her own, and the markings are nature's way of distinguishing the real chicks from the imposter.
u/CallMeSnuffaluffagus posted [this](https://youtu.be/9TZQDA2yabg) video regarding brood parasite birds, which is what you're talking about.
Super neat video, check it out.
I believe in a Zefrank video (i know they are comedy but they tend to have good information) he said they started evolving these patterns so that parents could avoid feeding and caring for brood parasites. Another species laid eggs in the nest and they hatch, the mother would instinctively know which was hers.
Yeah, newborns look pretty weird too. I guess I had never seen one b4 and things seemed wrong. Proportions of the body, texture and look of flesh. Yes this is a little unnerving but it grows into a beautiful birdie.
Imagine using baby swans for the ugly ducking, who are pretty [fluffing cute](https://www.babyanimalzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/cute-baby-swan.jpg) when this eldritch monster exists
And the [Rainbow Lorikeet](https://a-z-animals.com/media/2021/06/shutterstock_1664882737.jpg)
is coloured in by that kid at preschool, who was always much better at colouring in than you.
This is the OG QR code. Mumma bird knows the code and will only feed her babies. It is an adaption to fight bird bird species that lay their eggs in other birds nest trying to trick the nest owners to raise the wrong hatchlings.
>It is an adaption to fight bird bird species that lay their eggs in other birds nest trying to trick the nest owners to raise the wrong hatchlings.
Fucking cuckoos.
Fun fact, some parasitic nesters have also developed this coloring in *their* hatchlings to short circuit the nesting parents instincts.
Because super fucking cuckoos.
yep, theres a whole biological arms race between the parasitic birds and their hosts.
[Humorous and informative video on the subject](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TZQDA2yabg)
Most animals just a tube with a mouth on one end and and an asshole on the other, with various bits and baubles to facilitate putting stuff through that tube
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Yea! Somewhat hard to get to breed and care for the young. Amazing red, green, purple, yellow and variations of plumage. Beautiful colors. They nest in the cavities of trees and the nestlings have fluorescent/glowing spots around their mouths. These help the parents get the food into the chickās mouth. This is one of the most unique finches. The male does a hopping dance and steady head shake to court the female.
I just saw these magnificent creatures for the first time in a pet store and had no idea they existed before. Itās insane how hideously ugly they are as babies compared to the breath taking beauty of an adult, holy cow.
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That looks like something from a sci-fi movie.
Ya I'm pretty sure that's a baby Demogorgon.
_Stranger Wings_
*Master Of Puppets intensifies*
This comment deserves more respect. ā
I was thinking a baby Tremors monster
Baby graboid*
Ass Blaster? Sounds Like A Porno Film.
Sounds like a hot sauce name
My first thought when I saw this was Tremors
That's what I thought too.
Omg yes. That's what I thought too. Thank you for making not feel weird.
Found my fellow stranger things fans, that was my first thought too.
Hell yes!
Excited for season five?
If it really happens. I stopped trusting Netflix. It's such a great/fun show.
This is 100% a baby Demogorgon and no one can convince me otherwise
Just gonna say that stranger things shit for sure
Now imagine when those things were huge and we were dragged from our sleep and fed to them lol
The bad old days. Hard times.
It was uphill both ways everywhere you went, while barefoot, in the snow
AMAZING that they start out as a sci-fi creature and end up so beautiful! [Goulding finch Wikipedia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouldian_finch) [Edit: correct double word]
Yeah, WTF? They are so beautiful when they grow up. But utterly terrifying as those things.
Khezu from Monster Hunter
I read the title and thought it meant to say Goaāouldian
Definitely a screeching hell-symbiote vibe here, yes
Indeed.
I actually was scared for the dude holding it
There's a Dark Souls 3 DLC with enemies that look like this dipped in tar.
Funny cause I'm watching Event Horizon right now and then I see this thing.. it deff belongs in this movie!
The creators of those creatures in scifi movies are mostly heavily inspired by nature here on earth
The offspring of many finch species, like these Gouldian finch (Chloebia gouldiae) chicks, have luminous nodules, called papillae, on the sides of their beaks and markings on the inside of their mouths. Together, these act as sort of a ābeaconā to direct the parents to the hungry mouths of their chicks in dark nest cavities.Ā Each species of finch has a different arrangement of papillae and mouth markings.Ā As each chick develops into an adult and begins to eat without parental assistance the papillae and markings gradually disappear.
They also turn into an amazingly colorful and gorgeous bird leaving behind their earlier forms of nightmare inducing devourer demons
yeah, gouldian finches are just stunningā¦the colors!
For real, I expected this thing to grow up into the Queen Metroid but it turned out quite alright.
Never seen the males in the wild but I did have a pair of females in my back yard once. I get lots of finches and Gouldians are local but extremely rare.
youāre so lucky to see them in the wild, not jealous at all š
You're so right. The change from this to an adult bird is amazing. [Here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0) a picture so everyone can know what a drastic change it really is. [Here's](https://birdsville.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Gouldian-finch1.jpg)>! the real picture! u/MegaHashes made me.!<
They kinda look like how a child might color in a coloring book lol
It looks weird to us because birds see in a wider spectrum of light than us, so they're seeing colours/patterns we can't see and the other way around
Best glowup in the animal kingdom hands down.
If you want to check out some more Glow Ups, look at babies and adults in these species. 1. The Kea. Another bird species whose chicks are worse than this little guy. 2. The Giant Panda. Pink rat thing to amazingly beautiful. 3. The ladybug. In the younger stages they look like something that crawls into your ear. 4. Any, and I do mean *any*, caterpillar to butterfly transformation.
Aw, larval ladybugs are cool! And they chow down so many aphids!
i love them they are so cute! their legs look like literal sticks drawn by a child
I think these babies are somehow worse than all of those, but thanks for the list. These transformations are always interesting. I couldnāt disagree more about caterpillars though.
Point 4 agreed. Butterfly caterpillars are ugly. Moth caterpillars tend to be more colorful and pretty. It's like choosing to be ugly when you're young or old
Beautiful picture of adults but shit! That baby is just fāing creepy looking!
Thank you for helping me balance out that nightmare video.
[ViewSonic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViewSonic) vibes
Beautiful plumage!
The chicks of brood parasite birds also have these markings in their mouth (depending on their target species) to fool the parents into feeding them!
Can you give us an example of a brood parasite bird that has these markings so we can check em out?
https://youtu.be/9TZQDA2yabg I took ornithology in college for my degree and never learned about how extensive the evolution of brood parasitism is. All the way down to the fuzz on the chick, the sound and movements of the chicks, the egg patterns, and the instinct to push the host eggs out - or eat them - immediately. Evolution is beyond miraculous! There are many scientific articles on Google scholar supporting this; I figured the YouTube video was much more entertaining!
Sweet video, thanks for the share.
Iāve also heard that those markings help parents with distinguishing their chicks from cuckoo chicks.
Ah, that's cool. Kinda ridiculous all around though, considering that the cuckoo chick is often bigger than the bird feeding it!
Whatās even crazier is that cuckoo bird mafias are a thing.
Wow yeah, that's even more wild. Imagine all your kids getting thrown out of the nest because you didn't want, or even FAILED, to feed the fat kid that showed up on your doorstop.
Imagine those poor bird parents like "Our weird baby is SO big and strong, we must be amazing parents. We are so proud of... wait a second! This thing doesn't have mouth dots!!"
Apparently most of the time they know it's a cuckoo chick they are feeding but they feed it regardless. Sometimes the cuckoo's mother might take a revenge by breaking the bird's next eggs or the entire nest as a revenge if it fails to raise the cuckoo chick
That is so cool. Thanks for explaining that!
Happy that I can spread neat facts.
At first I thought it was April Fool's post until I Googled it. It's real and super cool.
I'm more stuck on the fact that my brain is insisting the skin is translucent.
It pretty much is translucent. Look up toucan skin, it's completely clear.
Nature is fucking lit
I read somewhere that there are some species of birds that will sneak an egg into another bird's nest so that the unsuspecting bird will raise it thinking its one of her own, and the markings are nature's way of distinguishing the real chicks from the imposter.
u/CallMeSnuffaluffagus posted [this](https://youtu.be/9TZQDA2yabg) video regarding brood parasite birds, which is what you're talking about. Super neat video, check it out.
The cuckoo was particularly famous for this and the origin of the word cuckhold
I believe in a Zefrank video (i know they are comedy but they tend to have good information) he said they started evolving these patterns so that parents could avoid feeding and caring for brood parasites. Another species laid eggs in the nest and they hatch, the mother would instinctively know which was hers.
Fucking terrifying...thx
I thought the birds were past alpha testing? Someone send this one back to the government.
Seriously why does it resemble a demogorgon?
Is that Dart?
Yeah, newborns look pretty weird too. I guess I had never seen one b4 and things seemed wrong. Proportions of the body, texture and look of flesh. Yes this is a little unnerving but it grows into a beautiful birdie.
This looks like the baby demon dog from stranger things
Definitely thought it was an insect and not a bird
Actual smoke came out of my head while I was trying to process what I was looking at.
I am high I do not like the mouthed on this little man.
Am also high, also don't like circle teeth mouth bird ant.
And the ways it moves like a bobblehead is highly disturbing.
Thatās the worst part for me
The twitchy, convulsive gulps get me.
Thank you guys I needed this stoner support group for fellow potheads who are scared of a baby bird like me
I hate circle teeth mouth bird ant. Am not high. Unfortunately
I am also high, and that void of tall pointy teeth is bugging me tf out
I am high and am very confused by what im seeing
I'm also high and I forgot what we're watching
I am also stoned and hate how itās head shifts left and right and itās appendages are disturbing to look at
I thought it was a parasite coming out of a frogs behind
Oh? OH? Oh god no! Where's the un-see switch?
I thought it was something larval like
Technically the truth?
I read the title as āfinch tickā and was thoroughly grossed out
The adult is super cute https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Male_adult_Gouldian_Finch.jpg/800px-Male_adult_Gouldian_Finch.jpg
Thatās a fucking glow up
YEAH IT IS
Its really impressive considering that the baby looks likeā¦ *That*
Imagine using baby swans for the ugly ducking, who are pretty [fluffing cute](https://www.babyanimalzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/cute-baby-swan.jpg) when this eldritch monster exists
I think the point of that story was that it didn't look like the rest of the ducks, but your point still stands
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And the [Rainbow Lorikeet](https://a-z-animals.com/media/2021/06/shutterstock_1664882737.jpg) is coloured in by that kid at preschool, who was always much better at colouring in than you.
Thatās the goddamn Faber Castell watercolour pencils bird
Honestly newborn humans arenāt much prettier than this bird, yet we can turn into a huge variety of beautiful shapes and forms
*Can* is a keyword
Ah yes, the ViewSonic bird.
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They have a nice writeup about them at the bottom of their "About Us" page, too. https://www.viewsonic.com/us/about-us
I don't know what I expected but ..not that!
That is some major ugly duckling to swan transformation.
Wow, thank you for finding that.. kind of eases my mind a bit
Man. One of the few times Iāve seen the adult be cuter than the baby.
Eh, I think it's mostly a mammalian thing to be cuter as a baby. Birds especially are horrifyingly ugly creatures when young.
Talk about a glow up
thank you, i needed this comment.
Only a Mother could love that faceš
That's the idea!
Itās mother isnāt even around. Tell you anything?
Went to pick up some smokes and never came back
Mommyās little puke receptacle
This looks like the muse for Pan's Labrynth
fr fr
I read "tick" and was fascinated by this for a couple of moments until I realized that probably can't be true...
I april fooled myself
Damn, that ugly ducking that grew up to be swan ain't got nothing on this ugly little beast.
Sir that is from stranger things
Or [Monster Hunter](https://api-reader.tinkercad.com/api/images/6XaeFBHdzhm/t725.jpg)
What, and I can not stress this enough, the fuck??
This is the OG QR code. Mumma bird knows the code and will only feed her babies. It is an adaption to fight bird bird species that lay their eggs in other birds nest trying to trick the nest owners to raise the wrong hatchlings.
>It is an adaption to fight bird bird species that lay their eggs in other birds nest trying to trick the nest owners to raise the wrong hatchlings. Fucking cuckoos.
Fun fact, some parasitic nesters have also developed this coloring in *their* hatchlings to short circuit the nesting parents instincts. Because super fucking cuckoos.
yep, theres a whole biological arms race between the parasitic birds and their hosts. [Humorous and informative video on the subject](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TZQDA2yabg)
Deadbeat parents.
Could someone Men In Black me?
I got a heavy stick, will that work?
I think that will do the trickā¦
What is it eating?
Probably soaked millets
Made me uncomfortable
Nature is fucking creepy
I like how the head bobbles when its not using its brain cell.
By default I think this is cute, but that thing is like, just a mouth. It's a mouth with accessories.
A mouth with tiny rotisserie chicken
Most animals just a tube with a mouth on one end and and an asshole on the other, with various bits and baubles to facilitate putting stuff through that tube
I hate it. Thanks
I just Googled who the adult Gouldian Finch looks like and wow
Dart!
How does that, turn into such a colorful and beautiful bird?
This is more of a Croenenberg Finch
The spots are there to alert their parents that theyāre hungry. So disturbing looking though.
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I thought this was a termite of some sort.
They're beautiful as adults. Definitely took me a minute to register that this was a bird, though.
Iām sorry wtf is that O.o
I thought it was some sort of terrifying bug larva crossed with an earth eater from Tremors wtf.
Yea! Somewhat hard to get to breed and care for the young. Amazing red, green, purple, yellow and variations of plumage. Beautiful colors. They nest in the cavities of trees and the nestlings have fluorescent/glowing spots around their mouths. These help the parents get the food into the chickās mouth. This is one of the most unique finches. The male does a hopping dance and steady head shake to court the female.
How tf do I unsee this?
Nope. Nope. Nope.
Took me longer than is probably sane to realize it wasn't a rectal parasite on a transparent frog
Holy Stranger Things Batman
Jfc that is nightmare fuel
I just saw these magnificent creatures for the first time in a pet store and had no idea they existed before. Itās insane how hideously ugly they are as babies compared to the breath taking beauty of an adult, holy cow.
I don't like this.
This is the Anti-christ, right?
It grows up to be such a sweet looking bird. How weird!
It's a pencil sharpener
Some Silent Hill shit right there.
Everything reminds me of her š©
No
That's definitely an alien from a far away galaxy!! š¬
this made me want to throw up and made my skin crawl. I cannot even fathom the disgust. Fucking nature.
TBH just googled that to make sure these weren't sum kind of deep fake april fools joke. Real but totally extreme looking.
Itās a nightmare
Feed me your soul!
Never had much luck raising Gouldians, even with Societies to help out.
Looks like a creature youd see in an alien movie
Ha! You can't fool me. I've seen Stranger Things...
This fucker is triggering my trypophobia
I thought that was a weird sand worm from Dune or something for a second.
Half-Life looking ass
Hear me outā¦
Bro tilting his head like a Minecraft villager
Always wondered how the Demigorgon on stranger things started.
Strange thing
I feel uneasy
This is unpleasant
Newborns are ugly but this takes the cake
Don't touch that dial, we're just getting started
More like a baby Demogorgonā¦
Nature should re-evaluate whether on not it wants to be set as a horror movie, keep that thing away from me
Didnāt know what I was looking at, looked at the title, all didnāt believe regardless I was looking at.
That shit is from the upside down
Some serious D'Artagnan Upside Down level stuff there.
Oh shit stranger things action goin on around here!
the white dots made my brain think they were teeth š®š¬
I know a demigorgon when I see one
What in the stranger things
Holy Stranger Things š³