Play On Birds

 These are photos Ari has altered for a pun. These are real birds, but altered photographs. Except for the Jello Warbler. That's completely made on Freeform, the IPad app he uses. See Ima's play-on-birds here.

Jello Warbler. The sticky jello is a trap for it's insect prey to get stuck in. Hopefully the warbler can get out.

Late Horned Owl. (photo courtesy Ima Akagawa.) It's late because it spent all morning setting up it's new watch so it'd know what time it is and wouldn't be late. The irony.

Very Grim Falcon. (photo courtesy Ima Akagawa.) Or Verygrim Falcon. No, Verigrim Flacon. Uh, maybe Very-grim Falcon. Eh, whatever.

Punk Rock Pigeons. They started with a potato chip battery. The band decided to eat it 'cause it didn't work as a battery and regretted that choice when they found out it was medicine flavored. No wonder the whole bag was thrown away.

Melted Kingfisher.(photo courtesy Ima Akagawa.) Just because there are kingfishers in sub-saharan Africa doesn't mean there are belted kingfishers there. Now your temperate feathers are melting.

Perky Vulture.

Beast Bittern
Marshland Monster
coming to theaters near you never

General Grebus, ready to fight the Mallard Order. Modeled after a Pied-billed Grebe and Star Wars character General Grievous

Sith Horned Grebe.
Not exactly a Play-on-birds, but a reference to the Sith-like appearance of Horned Grebes. The world of Play-on-Birds is getting quite dangerous, with two evil, lightsaber-bearing grebes. Even worse, grebes are exceptional at controlling their buoyancy, are very fast swimmers, and great divers. Along with the beast bittern, these three waterfowl may take over Chicago's waters. Find out in
Beast Bittern
and the Grebe-actic Empire
the epic sequel
also coming to theaters near you never