RE: Birds: an Unendingly Interesting Ecological Puzzle Piece

I've had a deep love for the natural world on the whole but never with any particular focus on birds until my girlfriend shared her love of them. Her mother owns half a dozen or more, too. Suddenly I find my instagram feed is almost exclusively birds doing silly things. It fascinates me, their ability to sense rhythm and music beyond any other animal group I'm aware of outside of humans. Very mysteriously intelligent, these birds