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Sabrina Imbler

Green Pakistani Parrot on White Background

Birdfector

Let Birds Masturbate

a wall-e ass looking robot called the looming eyes buoy

Creaturefector

Foolish Humans! Gulls Are Not So Gullible After All

White-faced Plover Charadrius dealbatus, Great Kinmen Island, Taiwan.

Newly Poly Plover Dad Still Figuring Out His Time Management

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UNITED STATES - 2023/05/31: Close-up of a barred owl (Strix varia), also known as the northern barred owl, or striped owl, in a park in Kirkland, Washington State, United States. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The Owl Code Tearing Apart New York’s Birders

<p><a href="http://www.ddavisla.com"><span style="font-weight: 400">David Davis </span></a>is the author of <i>Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans From World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation</i> and <i>Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku</i>. He lives in Los Angeles.</p>
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David Davis

UNIONDALE, NEW YORK - CIRCA 2000: Photographer Bruce Bennett photographers a battle between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the of the New York Islanders circa 1990 in Uniondale, New York. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Bruce Bennett Studios via Getty Images)

Shots

After 50 Years Of Shooting Hockey, Bruce Bennett Finds An Even Tougher Challenge: Birds

a trio of chilean flamingos, with the Bills Week logo

Bills Week

Why Do Flamingos Eat So Weird?

Barry Petchesky

28 April 2024, Baden-Württemberg, Donaueschingen: A mallard duck swims in a pond in Donaueschingen Castle Park. Photo: Silas Stein/dpa (Photo by Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Bill Shapes, Ranked

Beefector

Animals

Kathryn Xu

Common loon flapping its wings in the morning

Fatal Battles In Common Loons: A Subsequent Analysis

a close-up shot of a large gray bird called a harpy eagle looking unrepentant in a tree

Yes, I Attacked That Woman, And I’d Do It Again

1990s Single Male Anna Hummingbird Calypte Anna Western USA And Canada (Photo by T. Ulrich/Classicstock/Getty Images)

The Hummingbirds Brought Me Around

A still from a video capturing a red male cardinal staring menacingly at his reflection in the side-view mirror of a white car

It’s So Confusing Sometimes To Be A Bird

A 16 foot sculpture of a pigeon named dinosaur at the Highline in New York City on November 4, 2024. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/AFP)

Arts And Culture

The Big Pigeon Isn’t Scary Enough

two penguins stand in front of an inflatable rainbow arch in a penguin enclosure

Sphen The Gay Penguin Broke The Ice

<p>Matt Ufford is the head of video and audio at Yahoo Sports.</p>


Matt Ufford

A yellow-headed caracara close to reasonably priced children’s clothes and locked-up deodorant. Photo: Matt Ufford

Wings Week

Let The World Come To You On The Wings Of Vagrant Birds

Tom Ley

Nikola Met A Bird

Greenfinches and Goldfinches on and around a bird feeder.

You’re A Birder, James Hetfield

An image of Flaco in his chain-link exhibit at the Central Park Zoo

What Do We Owe Zoo Animals?

Flaco Never Escaped

Kelsey McKinney

Flaco, a brown and black Eurasian eagle owl who escaped the Central Park Zoo, roosts in a tree in New York's Central Park with a squirrel nearby.

Flaco Gave Us A Willingness To See The World

An African grey parrot looking at the camera

Let The British Parrots Say “Fuck”

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A male blue jay, perched on a branch with green foliage in the fore- and background.

Margin Of Error

The Omens Are Bad

A beautiful Streaked Shearwater in flight seen in the sea of Toshima.

Get Ready With Me (A Streaked Shearwater)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 15: Flaco, a Eurasian eagle owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo, continues to roost and hunt in Central Park, February 15, 2023 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Flaco Has Flown Free

LAKE FOREST, CA - JULY 16: Dr. Scott Weldy of the Orange County Bird of Prey Center holds a Cooper"u2019s hawk just prior to releasing it near Lake Forest on Thursday, July 16, 2020. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

North American Birds Will No Longer Be Named After People

A pigeon looks in the photographer's camera in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on November 17, 2016. / AFP / dpa / Frank Rumpenhorst / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read FRANK RUMPENHORST/DPA/AFP via Getty Images)