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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Can we talk about the "tit-warbler" part?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Weird, that was my nickname in high school

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Tit Warbler? Me too!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Look I love warbling tits as much as the next guy, but ornithologists are the horniest scientists in the game.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I thought for sure this had to have the saturation cranked up (very common when people post colorful birds), but the pic is straight from the Macauly Library and, if anything, underplays the fine details of the colors due to the image degradation.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pastels are in

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only for male fashion. For the ladies, brown is in. Female tit-warbler showing brown coat

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its functional beauty Maximizing stealth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And it's highly effective!

Predation accounts for a relatively low rate of nest failure: only 34% compared to an average of 80% for birds in similar habitats. This may be enabled by their well camouflaged nests, or simply the lack of local predators.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-browed_tit-warbler

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Wow thats insanely below average.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Look Raymond, a white-browed tit-warbler.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Girls fart butterflies, unicorn fart these guys.