Birds sleeping

Unravel the mystery of where birds go to nap and rest after dark. Our bird experts answer your questions about where birds sleep at night.

What's cuter than a sleeping bear cub? Two sleeping bear cubs. Here are 31 photos of animals cuddling up and sleeping together in blissful slumber. These animals may have drastically different sleep times and requirements, but all of them look adorable while doing it. We hope they give you sweet dreams.

Well, he is not sleeping, he is actually scratching his head. Eastern bluebird photographed in Tioga County, PA.

Abi W. asks: Why don’t birds fall off branches when they sleep? Everyone needs sleep, but for many birds, by necessity this has to happen while perched on a branch or other place that must be gripped. Anyone who has ever fallen asleep reading and found her book on the floor knows how difficult it can be to hold onto [...]

Here are some birds huddling together because it is, as usual, that kind of a day.

This magpie is going to 'out-cute' all cute cat photos everywhere.

trio of beautiful green birds. nap time!

We wonder you have noticed this or not but most people, animals and birds look adorable when they sleep. There is something about the helpless way they are sprawled in the throes of slumber that makes this so much fun to see. When it comes to animals in sleeping poses, they look even cuter than they normally do. There is something to be said for the helpless and vulnerable way they look as they curl up to go to sleep. These pictures will make you view animals in a totally different manner…

Call ‘em birds, or birbs, or orbs. Give ‘em names. But no one can take that smolness and birbness away. Yep, move over, doggos and cattos, funny pics of feathered creatures are a new internet craze that we can’t get enough of.