Chickie In The Spring Flowers

Our lesson is Music 🎸🎶🦜

Gentle sipp

@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!

Seaneen Watts

magpie taken from a rear camera on a bike helmet.

Australia

The Red-fan Parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus) puts its signature plumage to use in a few ways. When threatened, it’ll fan out its vibrant neck feathers to intimidate a foe by making itself seem larger in size. Feathers are also used in courtship rituals, when they’re raised up as come-hither collars by males and females in a display as a pair will sway their heads from side to side. Spot this bird in tropical forests throughout parts of South America, including Colombia and Peru.

Photo: Sham Edmond, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

'Tori

What an icon. Especially loving that detail of the feathers.

European Robin (Erithachus rubecula), Ireland

Great Tit/talgoxe. Värmland, Sweden (October 17, 2021).

Birbitol is my anti-sads.

Ravens can talk!🐦‍⬛

Video by”Paige Bucalo”