With A White Face Like A Snowball, A Small Beak, Round Eyes, And Yellow Eyelids, The Hokkaido Long-tailed

Canyon Wren (Catherpes mexicanus), family Troglodytidae, order Passeriformes, Guadalupe River State Park, TX, USA

photograph by James Fallon

a fledgling budgerigar or "budgie" 🐦 by @kevinsbirds

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

Little wren, I thank you for your mighty song.

All spring and summer, your serenade is my companion.

appreciation post for what actual baby peafowl actually look like

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

This dramatic birb 

(Source)

the littlest budgie feathers I could find on the bird room floor

........ chompk

"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)