These have been fun to see. Thanks for sharing!
Who can forget Doge, LOLcats and the BIRB
https://www.audubon.org/news/when-bird-birb-extremely-important-guide so Audubon is certainly into memes :)
https://www.audubon.org/news/whats-difference-between-borb-and-floof
May not exactly fit into this topic: https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/comedy-widlife-2021-competition-winners.php - but great photos and funny captions.
I love the pigeon and “hugging best friend after lockdown”
Species with Lesser and Greater in their names always make me think of the Daniel meme haha
when the imposter is sus
Btw this is definitely a parulid (new world) warbler, but which?
Btw the old world warblers are a weird and huge assemblage of enormous songbirds from whitethroats to Reed warblers to the adorable leaf warblers to parrot billed babblers to grassbirds to tailorbirds with a cacophony of different calls from harsh chattering and harsh songs to beautiful peeping to endless "Tui"s
I pity the American folks who listen to these things go PEEPEEPEEP :)
But the American ones are flashy and colourful, our ones are grey, yellow, green, brown and the occasional red and blue. And they are rather hard to ID by sight.
But considering that song ID of old worldies is not challenging, and that American ones are difficult to ID in both regards, @cadecampbell 's meme seems to illustrate that perfectly, old world warblers are probably better.
What they lack in flashiness they make up for in vocal prowess. :)
Prothonotary
The warbler in that meme is Prothonotary. And by the way, New World Warblers have some beautiful songs, too.
But they are usually the exception (I think)
If you are looking for beautiful old world warbler sounds, look for
- Yellow-eyed Babbler
- Common Tailorbird
- Willow Warbler
- Large-billed Leaf Warbler
I know this is a funny post, but could we leave the US second amendment out of things? I live near, but not in, the US, and it’s political ramifications give me the creeps.