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If you had to pick the most “instagrammable bird” in the world, you probably wouldn’t go for the frogmouth ( Podargus strigoides ) — a nocturnal bird found in Australia and Southeast Asia that is often mistaken for an owl. But science says otherwise. A study analyzed almost 27,000 photos of birds across Instagram accounts with a combined following of 3.5 million users and found the unassuming frogmouth took the top spot in the ranking. “It just does not look like any other bird, with its almost anthropomorphic facial features,” lead researcher Katja Thommes, a psychologist from the University of Konstanz in Germany,  told BBC . “And frogmouths are quite rare. Even in our 20,000-image database, it featured only 65 times.” Thommes and a group of German researchers were curious to see what makes a great bird photo. They found that despite popular belief, appeal has little to do with conventional notions of beauty. We might “like” a photo over a bird’s color or some specific appealin