birds

It's been a tough week and we could all use some fresh and nutritious animal snaps to get us back into shape! 

Bird snaps, doggo snaps and cat snaps -- oh my! We can never get enough of animal snaps. They are pure, often times hilarious, and when they aren't hilarious they're usually downright freakin' wholesome as heck. Either way, it's definitely a win-win-win. 

Bring on the animal snaps! If you're in the market for some extra-snaps featuring only cats -- we've got you covered. 

It's not something we've ever noticed before but we're thankful someone did! 

Tumblr user, todaysbird, shared a series of pics of crows infiltrating other bird groups like it's no big deal. 

Perhaps, it isn't a big deal...or perhaps they're secretly expanding their bird army, by recruiting other bird species. Who knows. 

In the meantime, we'll be enjoying these random pics and act as if we aren't onto their ploy...

Birds (now known as birbs in the meme world) don't often get the recognition they truly deserve. Sure, they're literally everywhere -- pooping on your car, head, anything and everything you can think of... and sure some have certain calls that are less than pleasant (especially at 5am). But when you think about it, some of the funniest and weirdest memes are birb-related. 

So let's give these birbs our undivided attention, they deserve it. For a minute. 

Artist Matt Adrian paints portraits of birds and they're absolutely amazing. 

But he also titles each piece something absurd and that makes each portrait even MORE amazing. 

Thank you to Twitter user @alexqarbuckle for bringing this artist to our attention! 

Keep it up, Matt Adrian -- we're your newest fans! See more of this awesome artists work on his website! 

The kākāpō is a critically endangered flightless bird, of which there are only 147 alive today, but will they be in the mood for sax?

Aww! Look how cute all these baby chicks are! Except, err, what's going on with that baby pigeon? Is that real?

Here are 15 side-by-side comparisons of birds in their baby state and what they look like as adults. 

Who knew birds could have glow-ups too?

A University of Michigan-led study of approximately 70,000 North American migratory birds from 52 species found that body sizes have decreased and wing length has increased in all of the species since 1978. 

David Willard, a Field Museum ornithologist, has measured the Windy City's dead birds since 1978. Data from his calipers and scales reveal decades-long trends in bird bodies: Their legs, on average, are growing shorter. They have lost weight. Their wings are getting slightly longer.
These changes are present in nearly all of the species he measured, according to a study of 70,716 bird specimens from almost 40 years published Wednesday in the journal Ecology Letters. Morphing birds, Willard, and his colleagues say, reflect a changing climate: "Our findings suggest that warming‐induced body size reduction is a general response to climate change, and reveal a similarly consistent and unexpected shift in body shape. We hypothesise that increasing wing length represents a compensatory adaptation to maintain migration as reductions in body size have increased the metabolic cost of flight". 

h/t: WashingtonPost

A well a everybody's heard about the bird! It's not enough that birds can fly, but some birds about absolute beauts, too! 

We're not jealous or anything. It's not like we wish we were birds, so we can fly far far away from here.

Here are thirteen birds that we love and love to look at! 

First, there were snakes with noodle arms, which were just incredible. Now, comes an amazing new treat for us all -- birds with human arms!

But wait! That's not all! The birds with human arms are animated -- which make them 1000000x way more amazing than any other 'animals w/ drawn arms' that we've ever seen. 

Prepare to be amazed, and filled with happiness. 

We didn't know how much we needed these animated gifs in our lives, until now. 

According to News 12, several areas in the Garden State, New Jersey, are having issues with bold, menacing and mannerless gangs of wild turkeys. The birds, which can grow to be 25 lbs. and can reach running speeds of 20 mph, are reportedly breaking windows, blocking roads, "pecking at cars and behaving aggressively," with one resident telling News 12 that, "Sometimes I can't get out of my car. They go to attack you."

While residents are doing their best to avoid interactions with the birds,  they are also sharing their pest problems with the world on Twitter. One of them is MLB all-star Todd Frazier who tweeted about it, saying the birds "have come close to harming my family and friends". 

Story via People.com

The Bee Hummingbird has many different names and can be only found in Cuba. These are the smallest birds ON EARTH! Their eggs in nests are the size of a coffee bean but even when they grow they're scarcely than a bee, hence the name Bee Hummingbird. 

But they are so beautiful, and their size simply adds to their precious-ness. 

Move aside, cats and dogs! It's BIRB time. We just love this Tumblr page that is all about avian humor and funny bird gifs and videos.