This Post Is For The Birds!

No, not The Birds.

It’s National Bird Day today! So let’s celebrate with some Sooty Owls at the Taronga Zoo, eh? Bless their sooty little heart-shaped faces!

[Like how they swivel their little heads around. -Ed]

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From Zooborns, photos by Lorinda Taylor.

25 comments … read them below or add one

  1. zosterops says:

    perfectly unperfect plumage

  2. Fird Birfle says:

    *SWOONS*

    (luv their spindly lil feetses under all the feathery floof)

  3. 260Oakley says:

    Um, looks like the pooparazzi have been caught shooting craps again. (See pic 3)

    …and yes, I have given myself a time out for that juvenile remark. ;)

    • blair says:

      i don’t get it. why would their doo-box be lined with the same thing the rest of their world is?

  4. joasia says:

    Owlsome! :)

  5. Kaya says:

    I know I’ve said this before but …
    “I’m a sweet widdle bird in a giwded cage, tweety’s my name but I don’t know my age, I don’t have to wowey and dat is dat, I’m tafe in here from dat old putty tat! “

  6. SlaveToCat says:

    The cat names you:
    Woolsey Wooliam and Mossy Tweet.

  7. Katrina says:

    Oh, good lord, that will be in next year’s top ten list. Hoot!

  8. EricaH says:

    They look like dust bunnies with legs lol!

  9. Kari Callin says:

    Hey there, cutey patootey, fluffy fluffersons! Diggin’ those feet! :D

  10. sugitomo says:

    So fluffy! I need about a dozen to stuff my pillow with them. My sleep will be filled with pillowy down and soft hootie hoo’s.

  11. gryt says:

    And the gentle expressions on their faces… The second to last photo is just awwww.

  12. Rachael says:

    How could anyone NOT fall in love with those floofy leetle faces?!

  13. ceejoe says:

    I just finished a really awesome book about a gal who adopts and raises an injured baby barn owl. It’s Wesley the Owl.

    • lisaLASSIE says:

      ceejoe, that book is one of the most incredible stories ever. Peeps, the author (a biologist who worked with owls) had Wesley for about 20 years. Read it!! (You’ll laugh, you’ll cry.) And these two are, of course, baby owlies!!! The floof! The sweet faces!!!

    • Iva says:

      I’ve read that book, it’s wonderful.

  14. Iva says:

    Oh, man, the floof. The unbearable floof. I can’t stand it. *thud*

  15. fleurdamour says:

    @Oakley and Fird: Party like it’s your bird day!