Feathers, Flight and Song

Birds with and without attitude

Do you ever wonder what a bird is thinking? This Trupial, photographed on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, is not your stereotypical, timorous, ready to take off titmouse. It is— as all birds are — a descendent of the maniraptors, a group of bipedal feathery dinosaurs that included Velociraptor. I like to think this one is annoyed because I didn’t asked permission to…