picked up a stray kitty , she's the friendliest thing I've ever met

Mallard Duck

Strutting in as our next bird; the Nicobar pigeon.

The nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica) is a pretty good sized pigeon from India! The bird, while known for its fantastic, beaming rainbow iridescent feathers is also known for being the closest living relative of the dodo (yes, the dodo was a pigeon!) and also near threatened. It is also the only living member in its genus. Amazing!

Janusz Grabiański (Polish, 1929-1976, b. Szamotuły, Poland, d. Warsaw, Poland) - Illustration from Poetry for Kaya, 1969, Painting

ヒレンジャク（Japanese Waxwing）

A lil compilation of photos of the semi-leucistic/piebald mourning dove who has been visiting my backyard!

First two images are from this morning 💕

YES I’ve been chased and hissed at by a Canada goose but it doesn’t make me hate them guess I’m just built different

yearly bad haircut pics

This little guy is very brave, loves momma, and says peep peep peep.

Nilgans 🐣 (Egyptian goose) am Eckensee im Oberen Schlossgarten, Stuttgart-Mitte.

little strawberry thief

Bornean Ground-Cuckoos (Carpococcyx radiceus), family Cuculidae, order Cuculiformes, Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, Borneo

photograph by Jason Bugay Reyes

Have you ever seen the Spectacled Eider (Somateria fischeri)? During breeding season, males sport green plumage in a pattern that's reminiscent of glasses. While this doesn't make their vision sharper, it does help males stand out from the crowd.For the rest of the year, they revert to mottled-brown plumage, similar to females, which have more subdued spectacles year-round. This duck is unique in that it lives in the frigid high Arctic. It sustains itself on a diet of mostly mollusks and crustaceans, diving to pluck prey from the ocean floor.

Photo: Olaf Oliviero Riemer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 

Reference photo from Javier Vecino on Pinterest.

peeping!

Dude that is too much slop for him

African Emerald Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus), family Cuculidae, order Cuculiformes, found in much of Sub-Saharan Africa

photograph by Sharp Photography

Black Bittern (Ixobrychus flavicollis), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, Jurong Lake Gardens, Singapore

photograph by Pher Thuan Chong