Not just another pretty face…

Dickcissel chicks (just a few days old) in restored prairie - The Nature Conservancy's Platte River Prairies, Nebraska.

Birds sure are pretty.  When they’re grown up!  At this young age, however, they are interesting looking, but it’d be hard to argue that they’re attractive.  I suppose you could say the same thing about human babies (if you could keep emotion out of it)…  they’re small, skinny, hairless, and wrinkled.  And yet we feed them and nurture them – and birds do the same!