I so thought they really were parrots before reading the captions lol
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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I thought they said "carrots" and I was like, I guess those birds do look like they have tiny green carrots hanging from their mouths.
I thought they were like a large, rare, green hummingbird with those long beaks that are actually just stems apparently.
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The way the seeds are layered in the pods is really satisfying as well.
Image is OC
So those aren't parrots? Crazy 😂
They look like parrots with hummingbird beaks lol!
That's kinda scary
Who's a pretty pod? Who's a pretty pod?
Damn you had me fooled
We call these 'papagei' in swiss german which is German for parrot. We also used to paint them with water colors