In honor of our new backyard bird, this week's highlighted t-shirt design is our cute Birdorable Baltimore Oriole. These small blackbirds live across the eastern part of North America and they love it if you put out some grape jelly and oranges for them! Males are beautifully colored with orange underparts and shoulders with black over the rest of the body. This is our totally cute Birdorable Baltimore Oriole:
We're celebrating Vulture Week because today marks International Vulture Awareness Day! This commemorative day has been celebrated since at least 2009 and aims to highlight the importance of vultures and vulture conservation through education. Why are vultures bald?
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...
It's the second day of our 2016 Bonanza, where we're introducing a new Birdorable bird each day through December 4th. Today's new bird is the Greater Bird-of-paradise, a large species found in parts of New Guinea. There are 42 species in...
To celebrate our 500th Birdorable, we've added three new coloring pages to our website today. Go to Coloring Pages to download the PDFs. You can visit the meet pages for each bird to check the colors: Passenger Pigeon, Southern Ground Hornbill and European...
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