The yellow breasted chat is a cutie and a mystery and a jazz musician and I love them. They're the only bird in their family because we used to think they were warblers but oh buddy they aren't warblers. Maybe they're blackbirds? Who knows! Anyway they have a VERY long and CRAZY song that just whinnies and gurgles and cackles all OVER the place and makes you think maybe you like free jazz but it's more likely that you like cute songbirds with banana-colored chests and snazzy white spectacles. Great bird!!
I made a new friend on the water this summer: the pigeon guillemot. They live in the bird equivalent of apartment complexes in cliff sides, and they are extremely fashionable, with a crisp black and white look finished off with bright red boots.
How about something backyardy - cardinals, blue jays, sparrows. I don't need Namibian Poison Birds or Bird Eating Spider Eating Birds or anything. Chickadees. Red-wing blackbirds. Hell, I'm okay about having gray squirrels.
Kiwi (bird) eggs are so massive that the bird is essentially a single-egg carton on little ostrich legs. It's amazing that this evolutionary cul-de-sac of a bird hasn't gone extinct, and we should celebrate this fact.
The yellow breasted chat is a cutie and a mystery and a jazz musician and I love them. They're the only bird in their family because we used to think they were warblers but oh buddy they aren't warblers. Maybe they're blackbirds? Who knows! Anyway they have a VERY long and CRAZY song that just whinnies and gurgles and cackles all OVER the place and makes you think maybe you like free jazz but it's more likely that you like cute songbirds with banana-colored chests and snazzy white spectacles. Great bird!!
I made a new friend on the water this summer: the pigeon guillemot. They live in the bird equivalent of apartment complexes in cliff sides, and they are extremely fashionable, with a crisp black and white look finished off with bright red boots.
We must recognize the military prowess of the emu, the only bird to win a war.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind All Ravens, All The Time.
How about something backyardy - cardinals, blue jays, sparrows. I don't need Namibian Poison Birds or Bird Eating Spider Eating Birds or anything. Chickadees. Red-wing blackbirds. Hell, I'm okay about having gray squirrels.
I came here to say that the California Scrub Jay is amazing and worthy of being featured. Corvids R Us, after all.
California scrub jays are fantastic birds, as is another California corvid, the yelllow-billed magpie.
Heck, you could probably do a whole column just on the many scrub jays around the USA.
Steller's Jay
Wood Duck
Pileated woodpecker! They’re so big! And loud! Hoping to see one on a hike someday…
Flamingo. Heron. Crane. Gimme all the long-necked feathered friends.
Kiwi (bird) eggs are so massive that the bird is essentially a single-egg carton on little ostrich legs. It's amazing that this evolutionary cul-de-sac of a bird hasn't gone extinct, and we should celebrate this fact.
My favorite bird: love em all.