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Another bird fact! Hoatzin chicks are born with claws on their wings like fricking dinosaurs!

hoatzins May be stinky, but they are also powerful

You opinion of pitohui? If you ever heard about them tho?

i had not heard of them up until now, but i’m glad you mentioned them – i just looked them up and they’re super cool!

Random bird fact: Only the left ovary is functional in most female birds.

that’s honestly something that really bothers me because you think at some point they’d evolve to just…develop one ovary? but no

Random birb fact: canaries are underrated.

Heck Yeah!

i used to have a really severe phobia of parrots (i literally walked two aisles out of the way to avoid the budgies at the pet store) but i started following bird tumblrs and now thanks to your blog i know so much more about parrots and am only afraid of big ones like macaws now, and im working on getting over that as well.

oh my god that makes me really happy! i can’t blame people for being afraid of birds – if you aren’t familiar with them their movements can seem really sudden and unpredictable, and they do have really sharp beaks. i wouldn’t say i’m afraid of big birds, but i do have a healthy respect of them – if they aren’t in the mood to be petted/hung out with, they are not in the mood. the whole point of this blog is really to encourage love for birds, so i’m glad it’s helped do that for someone 🙂

Imagine if there were a species of hummingbird that fed on blood.

This is Jelly btw. He’s very dramatic.

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THANK YOU he’s perfect

My african grey likes to laugh at you and cough with you at any given opportunity. Jelly is an asshole but we love him dearly

oh my god

Do u also sometimes get the intrusive thought that u should just run after and try to grab a wild birb? I mean like I wouldn’t actually do it because it would be ruse, but especially small birbs, I just wanna hold one of them like an ice cream cone because they’re small and cute and cone-shaped

who doesn’t get the urge to give them a Kis on the beak

Do you know about the African Gray named Alex?

i do! he was a really amazing bird. i still keep up to date on the other parrots doing work with the organization he was a part of – their tumblr is @alexfoundation !