Birbsbeautiful - Birbs!

Can I have the roundest of birds? The most spherical of borbs?

Oh have i got a rounded borb for you!!

Bearded Reedling aka Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus) eat a tasty bug!, family Panuridae, order Passeriformes, found in wetlands across much of Europe and Central Asia

This species is the only member of this family.

photographs by David Drangsland & Kevin Robson

Sometimes people accuse my chickens of being generated images and sometimes I think they are too

This dramatic birb 

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Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Denmark

photograph by Johnny Salomonsson

Every now and then you also need to do a bit of gymnastics...

I know European Starlings are not everybody’s favourite in America (for good reason, and I know it is not the bird’s fault), but can we for a moment sit down and admire their most beautiful plumage?

Hummingbird nesting on cactus, Living Desert Gardens in Palm Desert, California.