What's your favorite bird? (1 Viewer)

[aimeerose72]

So many choices..but my top 3 would be the Blue Jay(hes in one of my posts) chickadees and of course the Cardinal. I love how the cardinals are a family unit,as we have a father,mother and at least 2 juveniles visit our feeders. Ok, I also have to add in Downy and Red Headed Woodpeckers...as I said much too many faves!!

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[Bubo-R]

Bubo or Golden Eagle.

 

[wolfbirder]

Oh my! Is this a English Class forum?? So petty. Geeeez :eek!:8-P|8.|:brains:

It is petty, but he too used a smiley.:t:

Sense of humour by-pass? Though I accept it gets a bit tiresome being reminded that the spelling is wrong.

Anyway, I have several favourites,

I love raptors - so Hen Harrier/Montagu's Harrier/Pallid Harrier - the grey (gray - oops:king males are so fricking gorgeous. I love connecting with a Hen Harrier at a bleak mid-winter raptor roost. Also white-phase Gyr Falcon, and Golden Eagle, Merlin, Hobby, Goshawk, Red Kite, Peregrine, Eleonora's Falcon - all wonderful European raptors.

I also love owls - Barn Owl, Snowy Owl, Short-eared Owl, but especially Great Grey (gray) Owl.

Wildfowl - Great Crested Grebe, Slavonian Grebe, all the Divers (Loons) in breeding plumage but especially Great Northern (Common), White-billed (Yellow-billed), & Black-throated Divers. Also Smew, Goldeneye's, Pintail.

Gulls (generally yuck) but Ross's Gull are pretty. Sooty Tern's are nice, and I really like Pomerine Skuas (raptors of the sea) - Jaegers I believe to you American folk.

Waders/ Shorebirds are cool - love winter-plumage Sanderling, Godwits in breeding plumage, and especially Spotted Redshank in jet-black plumage.

Passerines are wonderful - so many to choose from - in UK/Europe - Redstart, Firecrest, Bearded Tit, Hawfinch, Wryneck, Nightjar, Stonechat, Tree Sparrow, Sedge Warbler ,Azure Tit, Long-tailed Tit (especially Northern-race), Three-toed Woody, Masked, Daurian, and Red-backed Shrike's.

I love the American warblers too - Black-throated Blue Warbler, Blackburnian, Prothonatory, Cerulean, Parula, Black & White Warbler, Northern Waterthrush, also Mountain Bluebird, Indigo Bunting, Pileated Woody, Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

I've seen all these - would love to see some of the grouse species in the US, also those wonderful Birds of Paradise, but Papua New Guinea way to dangerous.

Does that count as one?:smoke:

 

[AllanM]

Male Pintail. Majestic

 

[Euan Buchan]

Great Spotted Woodpecker I for some reason get excited when it comes to my garden feeder and take pictures. Great Tit is my second favourite followed by Blackbird.

 

[pantherfan]

Hard to just pick one. My favorite three are Carolina Chickadees, American Goldfinches, and Hummers. When we do get snow, I like to see Cardinals and American Goldfinches with a snowy background.

 

[kb57]

My favo(u)rite in my youth used to be yellow-browed warbler, largely because it was the first rarity (we are talking 1972...) record I'd submitted - found by another young birder, only seen by the two of us, and accepted. It was supplanted a decade later by another Phylloscopus, large-billed leaf warbler, on the strength of its song - I thought at the time it was like a really rich, mellifluous willow warbler with some notes missing, great to rediscover much more recently on xeno-canto.
Now my inclinations are definitely more towards seabirds and shorebirds, so maybe I'd plump for something much less obscure and say sanderling...after all, what's not to like about sanderling? In fact, given their wide distribution, a possible candidate for a world favo(u)rite?

 

[Nutcracker]

It was supplanted a decade later by another Phylloscopus, large-billed leaf warbler, on the strength of its song - I thought at the time it was like a really rich, mellifluous willow warbler with some notes missing, great to rediscover much more recently on xeno-canto.

Just listened to some Large-billed Leaf Warbler songs on xeno-canto, not a patch on Wood Warbler!

 

[kb57]

Just listened to some Large-billed Leaf Warbler songs on xeno-canto, not a patch on Wood Warbler!

Maybe I used to take wood warblers for granted in the past, at their current rate of decline we'll have to listen to them on xeno-canto too :-C

 

[Nutcracker]

Maybe I used to take wood warblers for granted in the past, at their current rate of decline we'll have to listen to them on xeno-canto too :-C

That, sadly, is all too true :C