This is a video of a pet umbrella cockatoo carefully listening to its owner’s very impressive beatboxing before it joins in the fray with some synchronized head bobbing and wing waving. Clearly, that bird knows how to party. The birds around here? They just try to dive-bomb my apartment windows

Note: Audio on for max chirpy chirping. This is a short in-nest video of a tawny owl that has had her two infertile eggs replaced with two orphaned hatchlings to raise. She seems STOKED. Me? That sounds like a lot of responsibility. I have a hard enough time keeping my

This is a video of African Gray parrot Apollo setting the Guinness World Record for most objects identified by a parrot in 3 minutes, with a total of 12. While it’s certainly impressive he can identify objects at all, I feel like there’s room for improvement. I mean that’s only

This is a video highlighting the life of Murphy, an injured bald eagle that lives that the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Missouri. The 31-year old(!) recently started nurturing and trying to hatch a rock he found in his enclosure, so when an orphaned bald eagle was brought to

After setting up a glass plate with contact microphone attached and spreading birdseed on top, Libby and Marcel of Free To Use Sounds captured the surprisingly soothing sounds of an increasing number of pigeons pecking at (and walking on) the glass. It sounds like a rain storm coming! And you

This is a video of clever raven Gosha demonstrating his problem solving abilities in order to retrieve treats that are in the middle of a pipe too far to reach by beak. After realizing his short stick is too short to reach the treats, he uses it to push a

This is a video of Tamia Overes’s lovebird Prince cashing in the Forbidden Cupboard Free Pass she got for Christmas to spend some time partying in her favorite prohibited space. And party she does! I can see now why the cupboard is forbidden, because if you spent too much time

This is a video of bird rehabilitator Gary Zammit of Cornwall, England’s Screech Owl Sanctuary and Parkk dressed as a lollipop ghost and feeding an abandoned baby stork with a puppet. That goodness that baby’s eyes are still developing, because that puppet is terrifying. The bird, which was abandoned by