The KeyBird has landed!! 🐦⌨️
KeyBird Keycaps

Bird Specs: Top Row - Quail, Woodcock, Egret, Raven, Tern, Yellow Rail, Upland Sandpiper, Ibis, Owl, Pelican Middle Row - Avocet, Swift, Dove,...

Pigeon Post
@hootalex groovy! What's with the split space bar?
@hootalex love that it's still a qwerty keybird.
@hootalex multiple row profiles? I.e., is it compatible with the profile/sculpting of standard cherry sets?
β€œThe @effinbirds approved keyboard”
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@hootalex the perfect keyboard for @fuchsiii cuz it's full of #Birbs...

Also it's cool that the keycaps literally take birds names first letter...

Nice touch!

@hootalex Just to see if I can do it. I have not looked at any key, but have omitted the QWE ones which you gave.

Esc = looks like a pigeon to me

Raven
Tern
Yellow Warbler
Upland Sandpiper(?)
Ibis
Owl
Pelican
Anhinga(?) (American Oystercatcher?)
Swift
Dove
Flamingo
Gull
Hummingbird
Junco
Kingfisher
Loon
Z No idea. Zapata sparrow?
pileated woodpeXer
Cardinal
Vulture
Baer's Pochard (I cheated)
Nuthatch
Merganser

@hootalex Edit: I see the link, these are awesome!
@hootalex ..und dazu das WDR-Kulturfeature "Als mich die Amsel fragte"

(a link to a podcast-feature in german language about the value of birds in human life, culture, religion, philosophy)
Eine Hommage auf VΓΆgel und ihre Liebhaber
Eine Hommage auf VΓΆgel und ihre Liebhaber

Der eine hat eine Meise und bei dem anderen piepts, manche zwitschern gerne einen, wΓ€hrend andere lieber twittern. Viele Begriffe aus der Vogelwelt hat der Mensch ΓΌbertragen - was von einem engen VerhΓ€ltnis zeugt.

@hootalex I don't know enough about birds to know all the keys but...are they actually accurate? I see Owl and Pelican...wow.
@hootalex there's a joke about people typing via the hunt and peck method here
@hootalex i call this keyboard the aviary.

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control-cardinal
control-vulture

To save for later.

@hootalex yooo those are beautiful keycaps, how could I get them

@hootalex quoth The Raven … forevermore? πŸ˜‰

if i understand birds correctly, I believe you’ve just murdered your keyboard πŸ˜‚

@hootalex cc: @aeleitch @rosemarymosco πŸ‘€β†‘β†‘ 🐦⌨️
@hootalex The species are chosen to match the letter! I love it.
@hootalex. If you can make me one that makes the calls of each bird when I press their keys, I want to order 20 of them. When the first one is confiscated by my coworkers, I can just randomly pull another out of hiding until I retire.

@hootalex

When it was cold in winter, Grandad used to say "The Key Birds are out"

Of course we'd ask, "what's a key bird?"

"That's what those birds up there say when it's this cold. Key Key Key Kryst it's cold!"

Thanks for the clearly unintentional reminder <g>

@hootalex can't believe it's still QWERTY

@hootalex Side note: Any idea of a community around keyboard building in Europe or Finland?

#CustomKeyboardsInEU #CustomKeyboards

@hootalex really cool! unfortunately for me they are cherry profile like everything else cool πŸ˜” when will SA family profiles get some love
@hootalex maybe something for @panduck
@neweinstein @hootalex This has showed up in my feed some 5 times already... Of course this is something for me  
@hootalex I'm confident I could type on a keyboard with blank caps, but I think this bird one would throw me off
@hootalex Shhh. I just got out of the hobby, don’t lure me back in!
@hootalex Well, that's something you don't see every day. I don't know my birds that well, but definitely appreciate the concept of this - nice work. If you do another round, consider some novelty modifier keys. EX: Hunt, Peck, Flap, Nest, molt, etc...
Also, props for using a 40% to keep it interesting.
@hootalex Nice!. Looks like something the ancient Egyptians used
@hootalex Amazing! How do I purchase??
@hootalex I don't understand it, but I respect it. 🦜
@hootalex well thats one way to teach people to memorize their keyboard

@hootalex gorgeous 😍

does it chirp with every key press? πŸ˜ƒ

@hootalex Dang, it’s crazy to me how keyboards so small can function so well. Also, I just love the look of the KeyBird’s BirdKeys.

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Paging @giardino to this keyboard πŸ˜πŸ¦β€β¬›πŸ€πŸ¦†πŸ¦‰πŸ¦