fat-birds:

Svalbard Ptarmigan by Tony Northrup Photography.

pepperandpals:

rembrandtswife:

birdcheese:

Bird cards, not only for tweet-hearts.

pepperandpals, these are by your buddy, aren’t they? I recognize the style!

Yep! Birdcheese is my college roommate!

pensees-ecrites:

vaselinebaby:

stammsternenstaub:

theY MADE THE SAME fACE

MY HEART

AW

Bizarre Baby Bird Mimics a Toxic Caterpillar To Escape Predation

ftcreature:

Cinereous mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) chicks are taught from a very young age, like, birth, one very important saying. It’s so important that their lives actually depend on them mastering it. The saying: Be the bug.

You see, a recent study published in the journal American Naturalist, describes how the cinereous mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) is covered with bright orange and speckled down-feathers when it is first born… and how the bird uses those feathers to imitate a poisonous caterpillar, reducing its chances of predation. 

Read the full article to learn more!

avianawareness:

thepacificparrotlet:

A+ bird blogging team I’ve got here, they’re clearly very hard workers

Tell you birds to tone down the cutes before my heart explodes.

franny-dick:

Owl Mugs

thefrogman:

(The last bird is not dead. It is asking for a tummy scratch.)

Photographedby Leila Jeffreys [website]

[h/t: jedavu]

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thechronicleofshe:

centelle:

OH MY FUCK GOD SHIT GREATEST MOMENT OF MY SHORT LIFE

when a cat likes you, its like being elected president.

when a bird likes you, its like being chosen King Arthur, ruler of albion, the once and future king, gifted with Excalibur, born of blood and magic