He's a violet backed starling.
Oh sure, lord your glorious plumage over the rest of us.
Maybe if you didn't live in dirt, your feathers would be pretty too. ever think about that???
I've read that purple and blue are the rarest colors in nature so it's a huge flex to prominently display it.
Local birds: Brown, white, gray
Birds abroad: Looking like paid weapon skins in a multiplayer shooter
It's not fair
I live in the desert so tell me about it. I fill up my feeders and put water in the bird bath.
Brown bird, smaller brown bird, big brown bird, brown bird and sometime later a scrub jay! It's blue so that's new. Then smaller brown bird, big brown bird, brown bird...
These guys are probably the most striking local birbs I've seen but even then they're pretty rare around urban areas like what I live in. Also they're still mostly gray/brown
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_waxwing
The best I get are northern flickers. Before I developed an interest in birds - I had no idea woodpeckers could be so colorful
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I can't unsee that.
"Look, I'm a woodpecker but I also have a fabulous side."
mods look, dirt owl spilled their jice!
