Other assorted birds

Are You Eating It Or Picking Your Beak?

I am fascinated with the way these birds use their feet like hands when eating. This one turned the seedling over and seemed to be using the sharp end to pick at its beak like a toothpick.
Quaker Parrot/Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)

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