Call ‘em birds, or birbs, or orbs. Give ‘em names. But no one can take that smolness and birbness away. Yep, move over, doggos and cattos, funny pics of feathered creatures are a new internet craze that we can’t get enough of.
Get your cuteness birdometer ready, ‘cause these cutie pies will make you go: “Oh my gawd!” From McBirb to Phonethiefbirb and Jeanbirbvandamme, Bored Panda has compiled a list full of the cutest, silliest, and funniest tiny fluffs. Avian fun is about to start so please, pandas, fasten your seatbelts.
For heavyweight bird fans out there, we’ve got an extra birbness dose with 50 hilarious bird snapchats right here.
#1 Momma Bird Posing With Her Newly Hatched Baby Bird
#2 Warm Sits
#3 My Husband Is A Disney Princess
The internet’s obsession with birds and its memesy internet-speak name “birb” is not entirely new. Back in 2012, an absurdist Twitter account BirdsRightsActivist tweeted the single word “Birb,” and soon, it had multiple entries on Urban Dictionary.
“Birb” caught on so fast because it encapsulated the set of features that make birds essentially very likeable creatures: their cuteness, smallness, goofiness, and featheriness.
The subreddit r/birbs defines birb as any bird which is “funny, cute, or silly in some way.” Essentially, the birbness itself became a sort of feature that combines both smallness and cuteness—the more, the better.
#4 Sorry, Occupied!
#5 Murder Cats On Naval Drones. A Truly Frightening Weapon
#6 Pantaloonbirbs
According to this article titled “When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide,” there are some “operational rules” to follow to determine if the bird is identified as birb.
First, “birbs are often (though not conclusively) small,” thus “ostriches and any birds larger than turkeys are disqualified.” But there’s an exception. “Even large birds start small,” so in theory, you could say an ostrich is a birb up to some point.
#7 These Software Updates Are Getting Out Of Hand
#8 Bird Flew In Our Patio And Decided To Take A Break On Our Cat
#9 America’s Current Mood
Another rule is that “Birbs are often (though not always) round,” which is essentially what makes them so adorable and extremely pleasant. This shape factor is so vital in classifying a birb that “the aforementioned roundness is in the word ‘birb’ itself.”
Most importantly, every birb should come across as cute. “Big raptors, while incredible and fascinating creatures, are not birbs,” states the Birb Guide.
One may, however, ask who the heck cares whether a bird is a birb or not, and this is the philosophical part. Nobody truly does, but “it becomes a taxonomic game, akin to ‘is a hot dog a sandwich.’” It’s fun and silly (and cute), and this is the whole point of the online animal kingdom.
#10 Civil War
#11 Muabirbs
#12 This Bird That Looks Like Danny Devito
#13 Popsiclebirb
#14 Phone Thief Birb
#15 Me: I Don’t Want A New Bird, They Only Bond To You And Want Nothing To Do With Me! New Bird:
#16 “Owl Always Love You”
#17 Fearbirb
#18 Straight From A K-Pop Album Cover
#19 This Hawk Has Approximately Zero Fucks To Give.
#20 Shybirb
#21 Snowy Egret On A Windy Day
#22 My Bird Tucked Herself In Goodnight
#23 Just As Written In A Song
#24 Who Lost His Drone?
#25 Omenbirb
#26 Way To Be Discreet, Surveillance Drone…
#27 Proof Of The Light Wight Metal They Use!
#28 Advanced Owl Model Activates It’s Drill
#29 I Work At A Bird Banding Station, And We Use Burritos To Weigh The Owls We Catch
#30 These Cameras Are Getting More Complex Every Day
#31 Cozy Blanket Birbs
#32 Jean Birb Vandamme
#33 Evolutionbirb
#34 Seconds Before Disaster Birb
#35 Whoa! This Hawk On My Neighbors Fence.
#36 Good Law Abiding Birds
#37 Mcbirb
#38 Some Fijne Nsa Work Here…
#39 In Hindsight, Letting My Little, Green, Velociraptor Watch ‘Jurassic Park’ With Me May Have Been A Mistake!
#40 Big Yawn
