Mastodawn

These are *NOT* birds

They may look like birds, but they are flowers called Magnolia Liliflora.

>>>>Nature ROCKS!<<<< 🙃

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For those who are debating the truthfulness of the images. Yes, these flowers exist and yes they look like birds. There are many photos available. However, and that's important to highlight this caveat, the flowers only look like birds during a very specific period while blossoming. They only look like this for a very short period of time and when you look at them from a precise angle. And yes sometimes they don't look like birds at all.

Anne Fausto Sterling Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe amazing! #evolution #mimicry

Geri McN Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe wow!

Nlroundabout Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe Ain’t nature amazing? And I mean that unironically.

Chris C.Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe I don't know who's confused here, or not, but the OP's images have been manipulated. The only mimicry in plants I'm aware of is for insects. Those are remarkable enough on their own.

Here's what the Magnolia liliflora's flowers really look like: https://landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/plants/magnolia-liliiflora

Magnolia liliiflora | Landscape Plants | Oregon State University

@ecomaniac The Magnolias bloom during the spring season. When their blossoms appear, they look just like tiny little birds. The flowers lose this illusion as soon as the petals of each blossom start to open up. That being said, thanks for sharing your thoughts and the link!

Drooling Fan Girl Dec 13, 2022

@ecomaniac @JeanPhilippe thanks, searching for verification was my next thing to do here

IAMHetkey Dec 13, 2022

@ecomaniac @[email protected] If you think about it, we really do live in paradise. This planet has everything to sustain us, the food literally grows on trees, and there’s a climate to suit everyone’s comfort. The fact that someone convinced us that we needed to build dirty factories to make stuff that we would have to pay for with money earned in those same factories is pathetic. It’s an Ouroboros the sole intent of which is to perpetuate a culture of dependence.

Azazel Dec 13, 2022

@ecomaniac @JeanPhilippe the image is not manipulated, the scientific name is wrong. This is magnolia denudata, or the yulan magnolia

@WolfChristensen @JeanPhilippe

Chris C.Dec 13, 2022

Thanks for the name correction, but I still don't buy it for two reasons: 1) lack of an apparent evolutionary benefit; and, 2) If you perform a search, it seems to be the same images over and over.

For more info, see this substack discussion: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52975/does-the-yulan-magnolia-flower-bud-look-like-a-bird

Does the Yulan Magnolia flower bud look like a bird?

This GreaterGood article, Yulan Magnolia Flowers Look Like Beautiful Birds, shows pictures of flowers that look like birds, including these images from the planetsavioursuk Instagram account. They...

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MT Nickerson Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe amazing what nature produces!

James H McLaren Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe Is that to attract some other bird in order to spread their pollen?

@JamesHMcLaren from what I could gather, it appears to be a coincidence. I couldn't find any reliable resources that give these plants a good biological reason for looking like birds momentarily...

Sue Amura Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe wow! They are beautiful

flexghost.Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe …so they’re birds

FyreStorm Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe mesmerizing

Līga Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe how cool is that?

flabberghaster Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe I'm so used to people posting ai images that I thought it was that. Those plants are cool, if real!

@flabberghaster yes, they are actually real (and amazing!)

BruceToman Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe
according to the link below, in 2019 this image went viral on several social media platforms (and has done so periodically since) after it was published in a Chinese tabloid. i found no credible source that this is real (and the upper-right image is obviously manipulated, with the left side mirroring the right side)
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52975/does-the-yulan-magnolia-flower-bud-look-like-a-bird

Does the Yulan Magnolia flower bud look like a bird?

This GreaterGood article, Yulan Magnolia Flowers Look Like Beautiful Birds, shows pictures of flowers that look like birds, including these images from the planetsavioursuk Instagram account. They...

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@BruceToman I appreciate the link. See this one. You'll see that they do exist. They are just rare and you have to look in the right angle. Doesn't mean that they always look like birds!
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774d35457a4e33457a6333566d54/index.html

Meet bird-shaped Magnolia flowers

If you stand at the right spot and look carefully, you might be enchanted to find out that some Magnolia flowers take the shape of lovely little birds

BruceToman Dec 13, 2022

@JeanPhilippe That's the Chinese tabloid that I mentioned.
You're making a claim about reality - "X exists in nature" - based solely on a tabloid.
and you are selling youself as a fraud prevention expert...

Kevin Riggle Dec 13, 2022

@dynamicsymmetry smells like Midjourney to me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_liliiflora

Magnolia liliiflora - Wikipedia

@kevinriggle @dynamicsymmetry they only look like birds from a certain angle and at a specific time during blossoming. I've found dozens of other pictures. I've added a few in the comments section below!