Awesome Birds

YouTuber AS Goprod lucked out a couple of years ago when they placed their GoPro near an owl nest. The camera caught the attention of an adult owl and its two owlets. The big owl’s beak up expression cracked us up.

Unless you have the balls to wear a wingsuit, you may never get your wish to soar like an eagle. Here’s the next best thing – a video shot from the POV of a golden eagle as it flies over the Altai Mountains of Mongolia.

Dutch photographer Rene Mesman and creative house Souverein Weesp created these hilarious, yet somehow natural looking images of birds sporting various coiffures. Genetic engineers, get to work! (Thanks Metin!)

Incredible footage of one of nature’s spectacles – a huge flock of sea birds feeding on fish in the ocean. We can only imagine how awesome – and intimidating – this Hitchcockian sight must have been for those beachgoers.

Let’s check in on the traffic to see how the roads look this morning… A nosy toucan decided to check out a traffic cam in São Paulo, Brazil, making what is usually as exciting as watching paint dry a bit more lively and entertaining.

In a surprisingly unexpected move, this captive bear sees a crow that is drowning in its lagoon. Instead of letting the bird die or eating it for lunch, the bear pulls the helpless bird to safety, then goes about its business eating an apple.

While it’s not nearly as dramatic as that scene from the Fargo TV series, it’s still a strange sight to witness a fish dropping out of the sky. Though in this case, the explanation is simple – a bird lost its lunch, literally.

(NSFW: Language) Colton Wright found himself face to face with an owl that somehow got into his house. After an initial freakout, he eventually found that a calm demeanor – and a Swiffer – was the solution to his owly dilemma.

Jack Saranthat was driving through central Thailand when he came across a massive flock (or is it a badelynge) of ducks crossing the road in front of him. Honestly, it’s like one of those scenes with the zombies in World War Z.

(NSFW: Language) Something amazing or horrifying must have happened to this parrot. Did he become aware that he was a parrot? Did he just realize that he can talk like a human? Or is he just a fan of The Wire?

The staff at Tanzania’s Greystoke Mahale safari camp found an orphaned pelican who never learned how to fly. We’re not sure if humans running and flapping their arms helped or if instincts just kicked in, but hey, beak-cam!

John Downer Productions has captured incredible imagery of birds in their native habitats. In this clip a striated caracara picks up their clever egg-shaped camera, and provides us with POV aerial footage of a rockhopper penguin colony.

We prefer the moniker “birddogs” for these amusing hybrid animals created by carefully merging dogs and birds into a new species – courtesy of Adobe Photoshop. We definitely wouldn’t want to get hit by falling dird poop.

A brilliantly made commercial from a few years back for Robinsons Be Natural fruit drinks gives us a look into what happens inside the four walls of your typical birdhouse. The cuckoo clock is a nice touch.

A few days ago, a flock of about 50 ducks wandered into a CVS store in Saratoga Springs, NY. We can only imagine they stopped in to pick up some popcorn and a kiddie pool. Also: Swiffers don’t work on feathers.

We’re not even sure what to say about this commercial for Mercedes-Benz’ Intelligent Drive Magic Body Control ride stability system, but it’s got chickens getting their groove on to Donna Summer and that’s all you really need to know.

Disco, the chatty green parakeet does his best to mimic the Monty Python line, “Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition,” but appears to be afflicted with some kind of parakeet ADD which sends him off on a few tangents on the way.

You’d think that these skinny little birds would have no chance against deadly gaze (and jaws) of this alligator, but it turns out theses sandhill cranes have no problem telling this gator to stay off their turf.

A bird with aviophobia does everything he can to avoid the trip South for the winter. A brilliant short film created by Conor Finnegan using live-action puppetry – and not one bit of stop motion. (Thanks Kenny!)

It’s a bird, it’s a bike, it’s… Gee Atherton, getting chased by a peregrine falcon while racing down a mountain doing what he does best. Who is the victor? Take a wild guess. Birds-eye view here. (Thanks Chris!)

Dear ducks… if you must cross the road, we suggest doing it on a quiet country byway, and not in the middle of an active IndyCar practice round. Thanks mostly to the skill of the drivers, momma and babies came out unscathed.

Disco the parakeet makes more pop culture references than a Seth MacFarlane movie produced by Quentin Tarantino. Though he might mix up some of his catchphrases from time to time. More here.

Wildlife photographer John Downer was kind enough to share this cute and hilarious footage from the BBC/Discover program Penguins – Spy in the Huddle. The snowball cam is pretty classic too.