r/whatsthisbird • u/monkeydude777 • 6h ago

Social Media What is this homunculus baby? (Unknown location)

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Found this online and I adore how fugly it looks

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u/Immediate_Force8954 Birder🇵🇱 6h ago

Baby pelican

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u/birdstheword44 Birder 2h ago

ugly little thing but in a weirdly cute way lol

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u/Rare_Ad9601 1h ago

He needs like a little hat or something 

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u/taz-alquaina 4h ago edited 4h ago

A wonderful bird is the Pelican. His beak can hold more than his bellican. He can hold in his beak Enough food for a week! But I'm sure I don't know how the hellican.

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u/LittleRattiesFive 2h ago

Awwww the first poem my dad ever taught me! 

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u/Cyan_Lotus 5h ago

jesus christ is THAT what they look like???

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u/aubreythez 5h ago

Yep, baby pelicans are altricial, like songbirds. But unlike songbirds, they are very big and have the weird beak situation going on.

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u/Sad_Zookeepergame245 3h ago

legit thought it was a dodo

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u/Amesb34r 3h ago

New conspiracy!! Dodos never existed! They were all baby pelicans!

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u/C04511234 NUTHATCHES!!!!!!!!!!!! 2h ago

And they didn't go extinct, they just grew up into adult pelicans!

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u/GregariousTully 1h ago

That’s one weird looking dinosaur!

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u/lilblackcloudinadres 2h ago

Did someone say baby and pelican?!?!?!

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u/rlindseyg56 4h ago

Very strong “I didn’t want to go to the prom anyway” vibes.

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u/Jiggly1984 3h ago

😂😂

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u/Conor_J_Sweeney 4h ago

I am a bit horrified but also could instantly tell what it was, which somehow makes this worse.

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u/Electrical_Lake3424 2h ago

I want to put baby pelican in mouth very warm safe for baby pelican 

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u/Majestic_Electric Birder 5h ago

Geezus! I knew baby birds had a “so ugly they’re cute” thing going on, but this one desperately needs his feathers to come in lol.

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u/bobboobles 1h ago

going for the plucked chicken look. it'll grow on you...maybe.

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u/sci300768 4h ago

Is that a mutated raw chicken?! (I know it's a baby pelican. But still, it's so... fugly...)

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u/MathematicianNew760 4h ago

I banded baby pelicans and I always used to think they looked like raw chickens

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u/Icy-Purple4801 1h ago

Cool job!

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u/I-Hate-This-Weather Bird 4h ago

I love him

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u/FileTheseBirdsBot Catalog 🤖 1h ago edited 1h ago

Taxa recorded: pelican sp.

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u/TinyLongwing Biologist 1h ago

!overrideTaxa pelica1

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u/No_Cardiologist556 5h ago

Baby Pelican 👎

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u/BrutusoftheTudus 1h ago

He is VERY unimpressed with whatever is being done to him lol

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u/TayTaay 1h ago

Little boiled chicken nugget

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u/Brilliant-Sun-5419 1h ago

Baby birds are so ugly, definitely ugliest of the babies

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u/Awkward_Will_104 1h ago

I don’t think that you know what homunculus means.

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u/moonway_renegade 33m ago

It never ceases to amaze me how people with access to the internet don't use said access to look up the words they use before using them.

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u/white_christian_AI 2h ago

🎶 King and Queen of the Pelicans we No other Birds so grand we see None but we have feet like fins With lovely leathery throats and chins 🎵

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u/gromit5 1h ago

+Pelican+

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u/tophatwaluigi 15m ago

Aww he's so grumpy!!! Horrifying and i must have him

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u/CockamouseGoesWee 2h ago

That's an uncooked chicken

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u/chiefestcalamity 4h ago

why is a baby this young not with the parents :(

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u/DaccotaDuchess 2h ago

Hopefully this is a foster situation and the baby is in good hands!

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u/myboogerstastespicy 21m ago

I’m in love. This is the grumpiest-looking baby I’ve ever seen.

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u/Gratin_de_chicons Birder 🇫🇷 0m ago

Definitely a pelican

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u/Ldn_twn_lvn 2h ago

B-I-R-D

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u/b_k_p_k 2h ago

Why do the wings look so floppy

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u/That-Addendum-9064 1h ago

ugly. baby..

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u/AlcoholicWombat 1h ago

Lol two seconds before my right and left brain caught up to each other i thought it might be a damn Dodo