Birbs, adorable handmade crochet birds, have been a coveted find on the Brown campus in the two years since an anonymous Instagram account, birbsatbrown, started posting photos of the colorful little crafts hidden in different spots across College Hill for people to find. As they prepare to graduate, account co-founders Jen Chen, Angela Li and Jane Zhou are letting their closely guarded anonymity fly and celebrating the nearly 600 plump, colorful birds they have nestled in bushes and flowers, wedged between books at University libraries, tucked into the campus gates, dangled in trees and more. “I’m filled with warmth and pride to have made something that’s given a lot of people joy,” Chen said. As the account has soared to more than 6,000 followers, the team of birb creators has grown to about a dozen members, each of whom has expanded the birbs’ creative designs — fashioning birbs that look like peapods, Minions, tomatoes, pineapples and more. Support and enthusiasm for birbs also ...