Flight practice underway. Watching this duckling flap its tiny wings is one of my favorite late spring birding memories.

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Baby bird peeps out of the nest.
#babybirds #doves #birds

“And, wheresoe’er we went, like Juno’s swans / Still we went coupled and inseparable.” - William Shakespeare, As You Like It

#SilentSunday #ShakespeareSunday #MarshMadness #birds #birding #BabyBirds #wildlife #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature #DelightOverDarkness

Few things are cuter than a scampering Piping Plover chick on a sandy footpath.

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🐥🤔 "Chicks crack the code of #language evolution! Apparently, our entire linguistic journey can be summed up by a baby bird's ability to associate 'bouba' with roundness. Take that, esteemed linguists! 📚🔍"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/baby-chicks-pass-the-bouba-kiki-test-challenging-a-theory-of-language/ #Chicks #Evolution #Bouba #Research #Linguistics #BabyBirds #HackerNews #ngated
Baby chicks pass the ‘bouba-kiki’ test, challenging a theory of language evolution

Newborn chicks connect sounds with shapes just like humans, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the “bouba-kiki” effect

Scientific American