A few Unreal Beautiful Birds from Macaulay Cornell Bird library

[Beringia]

I was browsing, and these are a few that I felt were just so beautiful, they couldn't be real live creatures.


King Eider
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/405462


Canyon wren
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/403066

Painted bunting
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/403199

Bluethroat
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/412216


You can search for any bird here

https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/

[dweller]

1. Long Tail Widow bird

https://ebird.org/media/catalog?taxonCode=lotwid1&regionCode=&mediaType=p

✌🏼

[Beringia]

2. It has same coloring as male Red-winged blackbird

But is in a different family. Also the females are brown for both.

[dweller]

3. i posted that bird's link

due to the unreal aspect of his tail ... that bird is a subject in chapters of Richard Dawkin's The Blind Watchmaker due to adaptation of the length of the tail, in both sexual preferences and survival itself ... the female's preference for long tailed males, and the tail potentially a hazard to the males survival ...

great book, and an interesting if unreal bird

✌🏼

[Beringia]

4. Ya, the tail is exceptional

[Mersky]

5. Note to self: plan a bird watching trip for up north

I love seeing spectaclar birbs.

The most unreal bird I've seen this year was on my trip to southwest Florida. When I first saw these circling over the beach, I felt like I'd stepped into the movie, Fantasia.


Behold the Magnificent Frigatebird:

https://ebird.org/species/magfri

They are enormous - have large silhouettes way the heck up in the sky.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. shhh, dont tell sce. lovely little singers .:)

[Beringia]

7. I don't understand, what does sce mean?

[AllaN01Bear]

8. salmon enchanted evening . posts a sunday colunm called lol cats .

features cats, birds , etc. and glorious humor.

[Beringia]

9. Thanks