If you’re impatient for the New Year’s fireworks displays, here are some explosions of color in bird form.
Nicobar Pigeon. Photographed at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.
Rainbow Lorikeet. Photographed at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
Peekaboo with double-eyes!
Scarlet Ibis. Photographed at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
Golden-breasted Starling. Photographed at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.
Shake that butt.
What’re you looking at?
Unknown bird (anyone?). Photographed at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
Emerald Dove. Photographed at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
Happy (almost) New Year!
Mandarin Duck. Photographed at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.
Tough Little Birds 
Amazing colors!!
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