Jurassic Birds

What if Jurassic Park had been made with the full knowledge that birds are dinosaurs, but without the CGI and the animatronics, instead having to rely on old-fashioned matte shots and miniatures, and they just substituted real birds for the dinosaurs?

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, with a giant flamingo instead of the brachiosaurus.

"That's a dinobird!"

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but with giant flamingoes and tufted ducks instead of dinosaurs.

"They're moving in flocks. They do move in flocks!"

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but with a jackdaw hatchling instead of a velociraptor one.

"What species is this?"
"Uh, it's a C. monedula"
"You bred corvids?"

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but with a rhinoceros hornbill instead of a triceratops.

"This one was always my favourite when I was a kid. And now I've seen one, it's the most beautiful thing I ever saw."

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of the T-Rex eating the goat, it's a giant pelican.'

"Where's the goat?"

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, except instead of a T-Rex breaking out of the pen, it's a giant pelican.'

"GOAAR!!!"

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, except instead of a T-Rex trying to eat the tour car, it's a giant pelican.'

*Crunch*

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of waving the emergency torch at a rampaging T-Rex, Alan is waving it at a giant pelican.

"Hey!"

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of a dilophosaurus peeking out of the bushes, it's a giant cockatoo.'

"Grraap?"
"Uh, nice girl. Nice girl. Nice dinobird."

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of a dilophosaurus attacking Nedry, it's an angry giant cockatoo.'

"SQUAAWK!!!."

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of a T-rex being shown in the rear view mirror, it's the gaping maw of a giant pelian.'

"Must go faster!"

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of a brachiosaurus, it's a giant flamingo.'

"It's a veggiebird, Lex! A veggiebird!"
(Not really, but don't tell her that)

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but with a flock of rampaging roosters instead of gallimimus.

"Gal, uh, uh, gall... Gallus gallus!"
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"They're flocking in this direction!"

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of a T-rex eating a gallimimus, it's a giant pelican eating a rooster.'

"Look how it eats. I bet you'll never look at birds the same way again."

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, except instead of a velociraptor peeking out of the bushes, it's a giant jackdaw.'

"Clever boy!"

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of a velociraptor peeking through the kitchen window, it's a giant jackdaw.

Puff, caw, stare.

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of velociraptors in the kitchen, it's giant jackdaws.'

Clink, caw, hop.

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of a velociraptor threatening the heroes in the visitor centre, it's a gaint jackdaw.'

Making a mess in the visitor centre. Caw caw.

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of a T-Rex doing the T-Rex thing in the visitor centre, it's a giant pelican. The falling banner also says 'dinobirds' instead of dinosaurs.'

When dinobirds ruled the Earth.

Jurassic Birds Bonus

Slightly less inaccurate Jurassic Park. With apologies to actual paleoartists.

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of movie monster velociraptors in the kitchen, it's smaller, fully feathered ones.'

Velociraptors in the kitchen.

Digitally painted reproduction of of a frame from Jurassic Park, but instead of a movie monster velociraptor threatening the heroes in the visitor centre, it's a fully feathered Deinonychus.'

Deinonychus in the visitor centre.

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