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It seems we photos online of everything these days, from what we for breakfast to the new shoes we have . Researchers have recently a study about what kinds of bird photos we on the social media site Instagram. This is a photo and video-sharing social networking service on which uploaded images viewable for just 24 hours. The researchers from the University of Konstanz in Germany. They into the question: "What makes a great bird photo?" They tried to the most 'instagrammable' bird. They discovered that the frogmouth is our favourite. This is a nocturnal bird that is from India, across Southeast Asia to Australia.

The researchers nearly 30,000 bird photos from nine popular bird photography Instagram accounts. They a special computer algorithm to which photos the most "likes" on the photo-sharing platform. Ornithologist Tim Snyder the frogmouth was the most liked bird because of its large eyes and wide beak. He said that while most birds' eyes are positioned on the sides of their head, the frogmouth's eyes more in the centre of its face, which the bird more "humanlike". Wildlife photographer Graeme Purdy the BBC: "Anything cute and cuddly something in human nature - and particularly anything with big eyes."