Birdorable – Unique Cute Bird Gifts & T-Shirts for Bird Lovers

A Common Loon floating on a quiet lake looks like it should be able to do whatever any other water bird does: paddle around, dive for fish, and lift off again whenever it feels like it. Most people, if they thought about it at all, would assume that...

Every fall, big V-shaped skeins of honking Canada Geese pass overhead. Every fall, hummingbirds vanish from the feeders just as quietly as they arrived. Put those two things side by side and you get one of the most repeated pieces of nature folklore in North America:...

In 1982 you could have counted every California Condor alive on the planet without running out of fingers and toes. There were 23. That wasn't 23 in California, and it wasn't 23 in captivity. That was the entire species: every single condor left on Earth, all...

Picture a vulture in your mind. You might imagine a large dark bird, a raptor-shaped bird soaring on thermals, or a group of bald-headed birds sitting on a carcass.  Here's the strange part: that vision of a 'vulture' can't be found on one branch of the bird family tree....

In 1938, the Union Oil Company of California had a problem it could not solve. A 42-mile natural gas line had sprung a leak, and finding the breach by walking the line across rough terrain would be difficult, if not nearly impossible. Then an engineer in Texas came up...

A Blue Jay looks blue for the same reason a Northern Cardinal looks red, or so it seems. The cardinal’s red comes from pigment it picks up in its diet and stores in its feathers. Blue, you would guess, works the same way: some blue pigment tucked...