Seaneen Watts
magpie taken from a rear camera on a bike helmet.
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the littlest budgie feathers I could find on the bird room floor
Birbitol is my anti-sads.
@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!
With a white face like a snowball, a small beak, round eyes, and yellow eyelids, the Hokkaido long-tailed tits are called “snow fairies” because they are so cute in their appearance. They are just that sweet and adorable.
https://www.birdlife.org/news/2023/02/01/snow-fairies-in-a-winter-wonderland/
Sometimes people accuse my chickens of being generated images and sometimes I think they are too