A couple evenings ago, I sat down with a recently received copy of An Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds, a photo book of colorful little birds. The images and paper are of excellent quality, and the subjects of these avian portraits range from cute to comical to curious. Though it might only take handful of minutes to go straight through the book, it’s easy to linger for a good while on certain photographs and easy to want to take another look at some of the subjects later.

Visually very enjoyable if you at all like birds. Here are some of my favorites.