They flock to visit exotic lotus ponds to take extravagant baths in India. They frolic upon the ice shelves in the extreme cold of the Antarctic southern hemisphere. They are your neighbors coming to visit you, wet their whistles, and sing sweetly to you in your own backyard. They are our dear feathered friends, birds, whose lives—filled with flight, feathers, spectacular colors, dappled eggs, and the sweetest songs—intersect with people’s in all parts of the world. Photographers make good use of this intersection between birds and humans by snapping windows into their wonderful and often spectacular worlds—new advances in digital photography let us peek into that realm in ways previously unimaginable in the age of film. Such insight into our avian fellows’ beauty—in the way they soar, build nests, mate, and dance—as well as humor in their sometimes odd or hilarious behavior, can forge an enduring bond with us and foster …