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Half Full:  Ya think?

Speed Bump:  That's a pretty deep psychological question, coming from what appears to be a budgie ...

Buckles: Arden has a close encounter with a squirrel.  I never understood why they like birdseed in the first place.

Rhymes With Orange: I think I know a Senator from West Virginia who just decided he hates canaries.

Argyle Sweater:  No more an uninformed position than our human government lately ...

Tundra:  A new perspective on a well-known saying.

For the 200th Bird Toon of the Day (November 7, 2015), I turned to a comic that is enough of an all-time favorite that it has gone through two repeat runs at GoComics, as well as a bound hardcover three-volume printed collection in 2005 (released in paperback as well seven years later).  Of course, I am talking about Calvin and Hobbes, which presented this gem way back on June 18, 1989:

Another favorite strip by an animal lover cartoonist is Patrick O'Donnell's Mutts.  On August 28, 2015, I featured the first strip of his (as far as I know, anyway) that featured a budgie.  I had to scan my own newspaper clipping because it was so old -- September 10, 1994 -- that it does not appear in the comic's online archives.

Yes, it's more Bizarro.  This one, my 100th Bird Toon post (on July 30, 2015) is a play both on one of my favorite Humphrey Bogart movies and on the companion birds I have had almost continuously since I was 12.

Dan Piraro's Bizarro frequently has bird themes, and he has told me that he's happy to have them appear here at Mickaboo.  This is a typical entry which I featured on June 1, 2015: