Wire-tailed Manakin (Pipra Filicauda), Male Displaying, Family Pipridae, Order Passeriformes, Colombia

Purplish-mantled Tanager (Iridosornis porphyrocephalus), family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes, Colombia

photograph by Felix Uribe

A pigeon <33

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

European robin (Erithacus rubecula) photos I took 04/05/2024, Wintersett, West Yorkshire, UK

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

White-winged Fairywren (Malurus leucopterus), EAT A TASTY BUG!!!, male, family Maluridae, order Passeriformes, Mindarie, Western Australia

photograph by David Luu Photos

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/

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?