Researchers find frogmouth is world's most Instagrammable bird

A study of likes on the photo-sharing app has (perhaps surprisingly) deemed the Australian and south-east Asian native 'most aesthetically appealing' If someone were to ask what the most "Instagrammable" bird in the world would be, it's unlikely that the frogmouth - whose main aesthetic goal is to look like a jagged tree branch - would be front of mind.But it seems science says otherwise, the dishevelled looking Australian and south-east Asian native taking out the top spot in a study from Germany's University Hospital Jena, which aimed to see which bird species reigned supreme on the photo-sharing app. Continue reading...