Birbsbeautiful - Birbs!

Favorite genre of image ever

Great crested grebe & chicks

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@artsja-a This is so nice?! Almost made me cry aaa thank you

Bird #45 - the long-tailed tit (LC)

While hunting for info to know these borbs better, I saw websites describe them with words like adorable, excitable, restless and 'only about the size of a ping-pong ball'. Also, older English names for them include the bum-towel, mumruffin and bumbarrel. How can you not love them.

There is a lot of variation within this species, with a whole seventeen subspecies! The drawing doesn't show three distinct subspecies btw. It's just the general vibes of long-tailed tits in the listed regions, because I couldn't find information about specific visual differences between subspecies. They're also found in Japan and southwest Asia!

Green Peafowl or Indonesian Peafowl (Pavo muticus), male, family Phasianidae, found in SE Asia

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Paul Varney

"A few significant findings emerged. The birds engaged in most calls for the maximum allowed time. They formed strong preferences—in the preliminary pilot study, Cunha’s bird Ellie, a Goffin’s cockatoo, became fast friends with a California-based African grey named Cookie. “It’s been over a year and they still talk,” Cunha says.

"According to Kleinberger, the types of vocalizations the birds used suggested they were mirroring the call and response nature they engage in in the wild—“hello, I’m here!” in parrot-speak."

(courtesy wolvendamien at Bluesky)

Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) on a rhino, sound asleep.

In South Africa by Zaheer Ali: Zali_Photo

White-winged Fairywren (Malurus leucopterus), EAT A TASTY BUG!!!, male, family Maluridae, order Passeriformes, Mindarie, Western Australia

photograph by David Luu Photos

A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]