--- title: Bird Library Livestream Is Here to Feed Your Mind and Belly description: A livestream of a tiny library for birds is exactly the kind of content you need in your life during this quarantine. canonical: https://time.com/5812697/bird-library-livestream/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-03-30T21:05:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:25.125Z og:title: Take a Moment to Dip Into the Miniature World of This Library For Birds Livestream og:description: Truly for the birds og:url: https://time.com/5812697/bird-library-livestream/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb9c666bbe7532d8/698a0c3586f68eb72a6ee8a6/bird-library-livestream.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1999 og:image:height: 1124 og:image:alt: bird library livestream og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Take a Moment to Dip Into the Miniature World of This Library For Birds Livestream twitter:description: Truly for the birds twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb9c666bbe7532d8/698a0c3586f68eb72a6ee8a6/bird-library-livestream.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Take a Moment to Dip Into the Miniature World of This Library For Birds Livestream > Sponsored content. 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The [Belmont Library for Birds](https://www.birdlibrary.org/), located in Charlottesville, VA., has open hours all day for all avian friends and even a few squirrels and a livestream for human companions who are responsibly practicing social distancing. The library has adopted the motto that their spot is “where the need to feed meets the feed to read” — which means that along with some miniature books and a library desk and arm chair for inquiring birdbrains looking to check out the latest in flighty literature, there’s also birdseed for those who have appetites as big as their quest for knowledge. Talk about feeding your mind and your belly. Watch the livestream of the bird library below or follow along with their adventures (and fairly hilarious jokes) on Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/Library4birds/status/1244290019726102528) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5812697/bird-library-livestream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5812697/bird-library-livestream/"},"headline":"Take a Moment to Dip Into the Miniature World of This Library For Birds Livestream","datePublished":"2020-03-30T21:05:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:25.125Z","description":"Truly for the birds","url":"https://time.com/5812697/bird-library-livestream/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","clickmonsters","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb9c666bbe7532d8/698a0c3586f68eb72a6ee8a6/bird-library-livestream.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb9c666bbe7532d8/698a0c3586f68eb72a6ee8a6/bird-library-livestream.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"bird library livestream","caption":"Bird library Livestream","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5812697/bird-library-livestream/","name":"Take a Moment to Dip Into the Miniature World of This Library For Birds Livestream"}}]}] ```