That's not a real bird.
Some birds are more birdlike than others. Ladybirds (lady bugs in North America) are hardly bird like at all. And they don't even rate on the lady-like scale (whatever that means)
The most birdlike aspect of ladybirds is that they can fly, and lay eggs.
The least birdlike activities include going through 4 different stages as they mature and mutate, being a savage cannibalistic predator in all but the egg stage, and generally being spotty, and featuring in a lot of children's books.
Whoever does their PR is a genius.
Their colour scheme for one is a delight to child and adult alike, but must strike fear into the hearts (or heart-like glubbs*) of aphids everywhere.
They should really be called "lady beetles" or ladybird beetles" as they are not actually bugs (or birds) , but are or course beetles.
They look like this in one of their stages.
And this is how that same ladybird larva looks in a soup bowl.
And this more familiar look in their adult version.
I'm told that they eat a stack of aphids (up to 300 in that first stage) but I'm often lied to.
But I actually think that's correct.
*yeah, that's a word now.
Glubbs (ˈfɜːfɪ)
Heart like organ found within colourful, semi-spherical polka dotted fictitious insects, that whilst seemingly anti-aerodynamic in shape, can somehow fly (see magic)
