Join us this week as we celebrate flamingos! There are six species of flamingo in the world and you can find them all here on Birdorable!
The Greater Flamingo was the first added to Birdorable, back in 2008. Earlier this year we added the other five species. Tune in to the blog in the coming days to learn more about these pink cuties!
A brood patch is a bare area of skin that some birds develop during nesting. The bare skin is an adaptation to help with egg incuabation. The patch of featherless skin allows the parent bird to provide extra warmth from his or her own body to the eggs in...
Happy Thanksgiving! Today's new species isn't related to today's most famous bird, but the name is similar -- welcome the Australian Brushturkey to Birdorable!Australian Brushturkeys are large, darkly plumaged birds with bare facial and neck skin. In males, the...
The first bird in our seventh annual Birdorable Bonanza: 2015 Advent Edition is the darling little Cuban Tody! The Cuban Tody is one of five species of tody in the world. All birds in the family are found in the Caribbean. Todies...
We're celebrating Vulture Week because this Saturday, September 5th, marks International Vulture Awareness Day (IVAD). This commemorative day has been celebrated since at least 2009 and aims to highlight the importance of vultures and vulture conservation through education. Vulture week rolls on with some cool vulture facts. These...
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