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what are your favourite ridiculous crested birds? (cockatoos, secretary birds, etc. anything with a feather crest)
There's A LOT of amazing crested birds out there. It's a hard choice but Royal Flycatchers are definitely up there.
Runner up would be a Crested Partridge. I worked with this species, very biased. Very round.
White-crested Helmetshrike (Prionops plumatus) in Senegal by ASalafa Deri.
First off I want to apologize that I don't have an actual picture, but I did my best in MSPaint to recreate this bird I saw at Big Bear Lake in California last week.
It wasn't very big, about the size of a duck, and it did a dramatic dive from a resting position like this where it curled its neck back and plunked it down into the water along with its whole body after that.
There were a few of them here-and-there around the lake but they weren't all bunched up in a flock anywhere.
The bird on the right is what the back of its neck looked like when it was facing its head in the other direction.
What kind of bird might this have been?
This is awesome artwork! The bird you saw is a Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis)
Here have a comfy potato Laysan Albatross
Look at that loaf
I am today years old when I learned Black Skimmers have SLIT PUPILS
Has dragon eyes!!! That is so cool!!
This Mockingbird is VERY serious about his berries! by Anne Fraser Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
A Big Yawn by mharoldsewell Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua)
Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus)
Black-casqued hornbill male showing off his enormous bill. by Linda De Volder Black-casqued hornbill (Ceratogymna atrata)
