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Generally, when we think about animal memes, cats are the undisputed leaders. You can find them everywhere, from murals in ancient Egypt to your grandmother’s phone’s lock screen. But bit by bit, birds have started to carve out their place in online content. 

The “Birb memes” Facebook page is a haven for hilarious avian content. We also got in touch with Tracy Johnson from Hummingbirdsxoxo to learn a bit more about birds. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, and share your thoughts in the comments below. 

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    Maggie Fulton
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My niece did this when she was a baby and crawling toward something she should stay away from. Hilarious.

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    Bored Panda got in touch with Tracy Johnson from Hummingbirdsxoxo and she was kind enough to share her thoughts on our avian friends. First of all, we wanted to hear more about her relationship with birds in general. 

    “I don’t think I would actually call myself a bird behavior specialist so much as a bird behavior, observationist, which is honestly not even a real word. I think the best way to become a so-called expert at anything is to put the hours into observation. I have always been fascinated with hummingbirds. My grandmother had a hummingbird feeder in Minnesota where I grew up,” she shared. 

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    Sawdust
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I feel like a new swan. I hadn't bitten anyone since the accident."

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    “There is something magical about these tiny birds that remind me of the fairies that I loved as a child. The most incredible things to me are the size and speed of them. They’re basically flying rainbow fairies. What’s not to love? My fascination with the birds started out as purely visual. I started to make photographs of them and that’s when I realized all of the subtle intricacies of the birds.”

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    “Like snowflakes and humans, every single hummingbird is unique in its appearance, and in its behavior. With time, I started to be able to tell the difference between each bird to the point where I was able to name them and recognize them when they arrived at the feeders. There was Apollo a male Anna hummingbird with one wayward polkadot feather on his cheek. And Morgan, a male Rufous hummingbird with bright orange feathers and a terrible attitude worthy of a spot on Santa’s Naughty list. And Valentino, a male Calliope Hummingbird with a sweet disposition and a desire to just live and let live.” It's a quite well-documented fact that birds manage to give all sorts of vibes, based on their unique personalities. 

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    Alex Boyd
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would pet all 100 Rottweilers, until whoever has engineered this scenario tells me I have to leave.

    Tabitha
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    10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would just leave with 100 identical looking pets.

    Philip Rutter
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I confess this is not a problem I have prepared for. I'll get right on it.

    Auntriarch
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A hundred greyhounds? I would just assume I'd died and gone to heaven. But if I could make a noise like a coffee grinder, Max would be there waiting for a treat

    SleepyPoppet
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I taught the cat to high five, so I'd be trying to high five 100 orange furballs.

    Delta Dawn
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn’t have to do anything! My cat would run to me on his own

    The Starsong Princess
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    10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My cat’s name is PomPom, so I would yell “Pompompompompom” and then he would run towards me and jump up to sit on my shoulder like a purring parrot. If I’m not allowed to use his name, “come here, my precious baby” will get the same result.

    JB
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My 3 sit on command for treats, so I’d shake a treat bag and firmly say, “Sit”. I’m taking home all the cats that deliberately sit in response and stare intently waiting for their reward.

    Lotekguy
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Since they only LOOK alike, if mine was a de-fanged poisonous snake, I'd just leave the room. Quickly.

    Crybabyartist
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They don't make poisonous snakes, only venomous ones at this point. But maybe there are poisonous ones just nobodies got around to licking all of them to find out yet.

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    Chez2202
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’d sit down with my back to them. My dog would come up next to me and start tapping his front feet on the floor like he was dancing until I looked at him. I work from home 3 days a week and this goes on for 8 hours most days.

    TheAmericanAmerican
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    10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd whistle. My SchnufflePuff knows my whistle very well 😊

    Kira Okah
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    10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I doubt that Orange is the one with the braincell today, but he'd probably be the first to roll in the hood of my hoodie, exactly as he is right now, foot hanging by my ear. Trying to tell apart 100 oranges otherwise would be a chore, they would all be having a mad half hour or hiding on the cabinet. They would probably all get petted though, orange kitties are cute.

    Castles
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’d just yell ‘cuddles’ n my lurcher would have me knocked over 🤣

    digitalin
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I actually have dreams about this. I wake up concerned about my dog.

    nancy
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our miniature daschund screams instead of barking (because we taught her not to bark as a puppy)... Hopefully she'd be the only screamer in the crowd (it sounds terrifying)

    Ample Aardvark
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I shout "MOUSIES!" and she comes running (to watch the garden mice from indoors)

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    100 Papillion Chihuahuas!!! Lay on the floor in the midst of them and try to high five them. The one that knows high five now has 99 new friends to play with ❤️

    Crazy Panda
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have two cats. If it was the orange one, I would say "nush nush! " really loudly. If it was my black one I would get my dad in the room. She is obsessed with him.

    Headless Horseman
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mine will be the only one who doesnt respond to regular whistles, she only responds to the star wars theme song.

    SeaJaySea
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would lie down and let the tidal wave of spaniels take me.

    Cjay
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mine would have an anxiety attack and p**s all over the floor

    Anon822209
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For my dog, I'd just yell "come touch!" and she'd run to touch her nose to my hand. For thr cat, I'd start crocheting. He would immediately come sit on whatever I was working on.

    Jenna Kay
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Easy - I would yell "Toothbrush!" and my doggies would run to me and sit! They love their toothbrushes!!

    countrygurl
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd yell " bring it" and she'll run the opposite direction while sneering at me over her shoulder.

    SlothyK8
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would lean over to "tie my shoe". My little assh@le cat, Jerry, would climb up the back of my pant legs and lay on my back. I love him, but kittens....gah!

    Mabelbabel
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's easy, I never use my cat's real name unless we're at the vet. At home, he's called "Who's mummy's big fat wobble-belly boy?" or "Who's my big fat pudding-belly boy?" Technically, those aren't his real name, so I'd just call for mummy's wobble-belly boy and he'd come running.

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would pull their legs (I accidentally taught my cat that this is acceptable behavior and now when she wants attention she walks past and extends a hind leg to be pulled 😆)

    Oskar vanZandt
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm confident my two cats would come to me... One would climb on me like I'm a scratching post and the other I would hear coming (she has issues trimming her nails and they catch on carpet) so long as the room is carpeted.

    Bilja M
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If a tuxedo kitty lets me carry her on my shoulder like a baby, that one is mine.

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would purposefully get a tiny kitten or puppy. Then they would put me in a room with 100 kittens/ puppies. Bliss

    María Hermida
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dogs would jump and run to me wagging their tails as if they hadn't seen me in two thousand years. My cats would start miawing and scratching my legs to call my attention. I don't need to call them! Arriving home is the best part of my day, because I know I'll be treated like a celebrity!

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too easy! Simply lean over as if I'm picking something off the floor and Thud! One of the 100 slightly overweight voids would land on my back. Happens 10 times a day at home.

    UpupaEpops
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    100 cocker spaniels. In one room. The Great Hadron Collider would be nothing...

    Ronna Black
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would tsk tsk tsk… she always comes when I do that. If others come along, well obviously they’re my pet too!

    Jeevesssssss
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My pony would come to me without my needing to call (cupboard love, lol), and bully away any competition. My cat would approach me immediately if I crouched down too. If approached by multiple cats I would lie down and await the cat blanket.

    Micheala Smith
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I only need to walk by my cat on the way back from the bathroom. She has an obsessive need with swiping my feet

    Son of Philosoraptor
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd say the word "treats" very quietly and under my breath and my cat would leap on my face.

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    9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    S**t 100 of my dog weighs more than the titanic, the room would break

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    9 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would just sit down and wait for my cat to climb onto my lap.

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    9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it's really identical looking cats, I'm screwed, but if they are just red cats, I'd look for one with big light eyebrows, looking like a negative of Groucho Marx.

    Neb
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    10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My black cat has black skin on the inside of her eartips. If really really identical, then I would sit down and wait. She is quite skittish and comes only to people she knows for a long time, even if she doesn't know them very well.

    K B.
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd order pizza. It's a long story but it involves a very special and relentless dance. (Please don't feed your dog pizza, mines adopted and I did not teach him this trick... Also, for everyone thinking of a cute little dog... No, just no.)

    Naomie Moore
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of my dogs wants to meet every person and animal on the planet. Not hard at all.

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently I have a very unique whistle and accidentally taught my dog to come to me and only me because for the week after we adopted her I was home the most and naturally interacted with her the most. So I can just whistle and she'll come running.

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a big overgrown yard, and a black dog. He disappears easily. He could be in my line of sight but in a shadow. I call out " where are you?" And he reappears. He's a good boy!

    Melinda Flick
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Play bow, smack my thighs, and ask "who's a GOOD BOY?!' See who runs to me!

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dog freaks out if I say her name in an Italian accent 🤷‍♀️

    Helmut Kok
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think my bunny would notice me if not check all for his ear tattoo

    Bored something
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Call one of my other cats names. They are more likely to come than when I call their name anyway 🙄

    Helen Rohrlach
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had merino pet lambs that as adults ran with the rest of the 2000 other sheep. Not a problem because 1. Sheep all don't look alike and 2. They used to come up to me to show their babies to their mummy.

    Ken Beattie
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just walk in. My pet is going to be the happiest one to see me. That's pretty simple.

    CertifiedCatServant (he/him)
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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would wait for something mildly loud to happen and pick the one that immediately freaks out and starts hiding

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Easy. After coming home from work it would be the tabby that comes out of a dead sleep to climb the blinds and "ignore" me while carefully keeping tabs on where I am through side-eye

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Easy, my baby boy runs up to me whenever I get outta my car. Even in a sea of black German Shepherds, he'd find me. I just have to be there for him.

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    10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She's deaf so... I'm just sitting until the snuggles feel right. No matter how long the wiggle butts take!

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    “The best way to learn about anything in life is to put in the time and just watch things unfold. Watching all of these birds inevitably led to more questions and that led me to do some Internet research. The beautiful thing about life is that no matter how much knowledge you have about a subject? There is always more to learn,” she shared with Bored Panda. Those interested can also explore lists of all hummingbird populations by region. 

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A brilliant example of Aristotelian analysis!! He insisted geese came from barnacles, you know.

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    One possible negative side effect of all of these memes floating around is that people sort of forget what unique creatures birds are, so we wanted to hear what things many people get wrong about them. “I think the most common misconception about birds, and actually any creature aside from a human: is that they don’t have personalities. And that’s completely untrue. I have met some of the sweetest hummingbirds, the ones who are careful with each other. I have also met some psychopath hummingbirds.”

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    “Including Morgan who I mentioned earlier, who at one point flew up to me and tried his best to stab me in my eye with his beak. Hummingbirds do not have the body strength to put behind any aggression so they are definitely not dangerous. I think the only danger in that situation would have been if I had left my eyelid open. He could have potentially scratched my eye, but the real danger was from me dying of laughter because the whole situation was so preposterous. Here's a tiny wisp of a bird, taking on a full-grown human, and thinking that he could win. I simply blew on him, and that tiny bit of wind pushed him back from my face. That snapped him out of it and he flew off to annoy the other birds in the yard.”

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    “I also think a misconception about hummingbirds is that they are loners. And, for the most part in my experience, this is true with my resident hummingbirds who stay year-round in the backyard. They tend to keep to themselves and avoid eye contact, except during mating season. But for the travelers, which is what I call the migratory hummingbirds: I have noticed a camaraderie between them. It has been said that all of these birds travel alone on the migratory route, sometimes as far north as Canada, and as far south as Mexico. I don’t think that they travel alone. Every year the rufous hummingbirds arrive in our yard: they all arrive on the same day. “

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just another day in New Zealand apparently...also "Butcombe Bitter" haha need to try for the name alone!

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    “I think the main draw for bird content is that people don’t know as much about interactions with birds as they do with other animals such as cats and dogs. So there is something mysterious about people who are able to interact with birds. But it’s not a special gift that I’ve been given, it’s the idea that if you show an animal that you hear them and you see them. They will begin to interact with you. The most important thing that you can do if you want to interact with anything in the natural world is to express kindness towards them.”

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fortunately, Diego the Parrot was also unarmed...this could have ended tragically otherwise.

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    “Show them that you do not mean any harm. The best way to do this is to speak quietly and move slowly. If you want to make friends with the birds in your yard, become part of the scenery. Take a book and go and sit at a table outside and set your hummingbird feeder on the table 4 feet away from you. And every single day sit out there at the exact same time until the birds realize that you are just another creature in the backyard. This is how I started to get the hummingbirds to hand feed from me from the little hand feeders filled with sugar water. It takes time. But it’s definitely worth it.”

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    “I managed to make friends with some wild, cottontail rabbits in my yard, and I’m able to hand-feed them as well. And that was accomplished in the same way that I got the hummingbird comfortable with me. I just became a part of the scenery.” You can find more of her work on Instagram and Facebook. And if you want more bird memes, Bored Panda has got you covered, check out our previous article on this topic.

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is shown on so many posts. The pet photo changes but the supposed land lord texts are always the same.

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    10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A criminal on the lam hides out in a small town and becomes a beloved member of the community; then the cops show up. This sounds like the plot of a movie I've seen before, but can't remember exactly.

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    10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Poor birds. There could be no good reason to transport this many birds like this.

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