Little Girl and Beatboxer

Vahtang Kalandadze, a Moscow based beatboxer, meets a little girl named Lera who makes awesome whistling bird sounds. Together they make an amazing beatboxing duet (skip to 1:43 in the video for that part only).LINK, Via: Youtube

Dove ruins kitten's nap

Oh that's just ultra hilarious, isn't it? The cat's nap is brutally destroyed by an over enthusiastic pigeon. LINK: Youtube

Wings Of A Snow White Dove ~ Ferlin Husky

Wings Of A Snow White Dove ~ Song sung by Ferlin Husky. LINK: Youtube

Hummingbird Cam

You so gotta go to this and go to the Hummingbird Cam. Look at those babies in HD! http://www.ustream.tv/lounge.

Frontal Courtship of a Tragopan Satyra

“What can you say but; WOW WOW WOW!” LINK: Youtube

Golden Pheasants Fighting

Golden Pheasants hissing and fighting at Kew Gardens, London England. LINK: Youtube

EXTRAORDINARY BIRD IMPERSONATIONS

That’s what you call skills!” LINK: LiveLeak

Genius Bird

An ornithologist devises a test to see how clever ravens really are. LINK: Youtube

Return Of The Wandering Warblers

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Each Spring the woodlands of America resound to the birdsong of returning visitors. Warblers - fifty three species of them all in all - arrive and right now is the best time to see them as they migrate.

Their arrival heralds a dazzling dash of color as the greenness of American forests is peppered as if with the ravishing hues of thousands of tiny precious stones. LINK: The Presurfer

Swan Parade

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Every Easter in Stratford, Ontario you can see the swans returning to the Avon River in style. They are escorted from their winter quarters in a fenced area to the water by a parade of bagpipers! The Stratford Police Services pipe band wore kilts and marched to the river while playing music. The swans waddled behind. Link -Via: Arbroath, Via: Neatorama

The Hooded Pitohui - a Poisonous Bird

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Jack Dumbacher, an ornithologist at the California Academy of Science, describes the discovery of and studies of a neurotoxin produced by this bird from New Guinea. The batrachotoxin that the bird produces is a sodium-channel blocker that is chemically identical to the neurotoxin used by poison dart frogs, and it is potentially lethal in higher doses. One assumes that this evolved as a deterrent to predation, so it’s interesting that like monarchs and other toxic butterflies, this bird exhibits a strikingly bright warning coloration. LINK: Neatorama

Skateboarding owl becomes Folkestone sensation

Alby the owl has become a mini-sensation after he discovered how to skateboard when on show outside Bouverie Place shopping centre, Brian Maxted of Folkestone Owl Sanctuary. LINK: Youtube

Chook the Lyrebird

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You might recall Sir David Attenborough introducing us to the lyrebird, a master of mimcry (and later the wonderful remix). Chook the lyrebird lives at the Adelaide Zoo. After a period of construction at the zoo, Chook was able to recreate the sounds of hammers, saws, and power tools exactly. Link, -Via: Arbroath, Via: Neatorama

Wormdance

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The video documents a seagull “dancing” to bring earthworms to the surface. When humans do this, it’s called “worm-charming” or “worm-grunting.” Wood turtles also use this technique, by repeatedly bumping their carapace against the ground.

Via: Reddit, Via: Neatorama

The Happy Feet of the Blue Footed Booby

There is no creature on earth quite like the Blue Footed Booby - at least when it comes to looking as if you have made a mistake when painting your walls that lovely light blue. Another native of the Galapagos, the BFB (as it perhaps should be known) is known too for its elaborate dancing. Lauren Axelrod
takes a look at this remarkable bird.

LINK, Via: Webphemera

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Bird Claw Bottle Stopper

“Stop birds of prey from swooping down and flying away with your unfinished bottle of wine with this bird claw bottle stopper, a remnant from a previously failed attempt. Now, with chicken foot aesthetic for added luck.” LINK

Bird loves Egyptian music

This bird has a real love for the fine things in life, such as contemporary Egyptian pop music. LINK, Via: Youtube

Two-inch gap at 35mph?

She didn’t have to swerve, or even apply the brakes. With just a flap and a twist this swallow swooped through a two-inch gap in a locked barn door.

She managed to maneuver all 14 inches worth of wingspan inside without ruffling a feather.

The astonishing display of aerobatics was captured by a photographer sitting in the agricultural shed.

Wildlife photographer Keith Ringland, who took the pictures, said: ‘The swallow used a different, much bigger hole in the roof to leave the building. LINK

Gigantic Spider Gobbles Bird in Front of Camera

Snapped in the backyard of a resident of Queensland, Australia in October 2008, the disturbing sequence shows the bird, identified as a chestnut-breeded mannikin, caught in the web of its arachnid nemesis. As the mannikin’s struggling subsides, the spider decides it’s feeding time and goes in for the kill. Golden orb weavers are known for their strong, finely meshed webs, but this one must have been like steel to keep the bird from taking wing. More info at LINK.

Moonwalking bird

Awesome how the camera picked up what the naked eye would've missed. LINK: Youtube