Baby Raven

This fuzzball little baby raven is 5 x 3 x 3 inches, feet 4 inches wide

Eek – I really need a new camera

2/22: Picture update! OK, three steps back and set to 2X produces a better shot

Crouching Raven

Crouching Raven

These birds are so smart! I saw a video of one raven using the cross walk to drop nuts in the street, so cars would drive over them and crack them open for him. Amazing

9 x 5.75 x 3 inches

http://doudoubirds.com/Crouching-Raven-Bird-Sculpture.html

Who doesn’t love a mustache?

So birds are strange creatures. They have evolved to display the most beautiful and the most absurd plumage. Bird’s of paradise are a great example, but we’ll save that for another post. Right now there is a more pressing issue. Bird’s with facial hair, or what looks like facial hair. Observe:

Photo By Barry Boswell

Photo By Harry Eggens

Photo By Alfredo Fernández

These are pretty important images to ornithology.

I spent too much time looking for pictures of birds with facial hair on the internet.

Samantha