[Closed] What's your favourite bird?

Magpie.

Beautiful plumage.

my mrs in a bikini !

Vulture. Even the name is the best.

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(prepare for this thread to go horribly wrong)(ah, too late!)

I like tits

Watched these fishing a couple of times, felt quite privileged.

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Troglodytes troglodytes
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The King of the Birds.

I like seagulls and pigeons. The former because their shapes are so perfectly optimised for long flights over sea, and the latter for their low aspect ratio wings that give them such an advantage in city life.

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well done thepurist. I'm surprised it took 10 posts 🙂

Pigeons !!!

WTF

Flying rats

Kill 'em all

Preferably with Peregrine Falcons... that's a proper bird, the peregrine

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We are lucky enough to have herons come fishing in the millpond every day at home, I can watch them from the breakfast table. I know it's a bit cheesy, but I love the skylark, lots round here. I had a pair of gold crests nesting a couple of years back, also beautiful.

I'm with you. Heron's are awesome. There's one that hunts in the rapids in the village, I could watch him hunt all day.

What's that bird who break dances? That one is cool.

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I like all the Corvids but these made me laugh in Finland, seeing Albatross flying above the Dunedin peninsula was areal treat mahooooosive

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Red Kite - I watch one flying figures of 8 from my home office when I'm not skivving on Singletrack
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Call me old school, but I'm a Jay man. Always have been. Always will be.

Thusly:

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Plus, with a Jay you also get a great 'huh?' face:

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Cheers leffeboy - surprised I got in before the baby robin 😀

On a more serious note...

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[i]Possibly[/i] saw one once, a large pale raptor being very agile through trees, but couldn't be sure enough to confirm it wasn't a female sparrowhawk.

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[i]What's that bird who break dances? That one is cool.[/i]

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The Red Kite is breath-taking. I love that bird.

But there are two I have especial attachment to, as they bring back good memories of snow-covered pine trees in Canada:

The Evening Grosbeak:

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The Pine Grosbeak:

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Any bird that kind of looks like a power-crazed raspberry is a sure-fire win. So, SaxonRider's little red chap wins. 😀

Call me old school, but I'm a Jay man. Always have been. Always will be.

Jays are ace. We get them outside the window for a few days each year - they go mad for the acorns. What surprises me though is for such large, colourful, noisy and quite clumsy birds is... where the hell do they hide for the rest of the year?

I like birds that are good company, as lovely as a fleeting glimpse of a kingfisher is I prefer dippers, because can rely on them to be there. Same goes for the swallows and wrens in my workshop. Feel bereft when the swallows leave.

[i]kind of looks like a power-crazed raspberry is a sure-fire win[/i]

I think you mean 'a pink budgie'..

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I'm with CFH on this. The wren is such a pretty little thing with a very impressive size to song db(A) ratio!

It was featured on the farthing many moons ago.

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I'm also very fond of the blue tit.

I saw one of these guys the other day whilst out along the canal towpath...

never actually seen one before!

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Hoopoe i think...!

finally saw one last year in Ibiza...!! years and years after first seeing them in my favourite book as a kid... 'the observers book of birds'

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quite partial to green woodpeckers and barn owls too..

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's got attitude...

Pied wagtail ftw.
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It is the humble blackbird for me.

Sat in the garden on a lovely early summer evening with Mr blackbird chirping away is one of my greatest pleasures

Definently not Oystercatchers... The noise they make is awful, I prefer crows/rools tbh. I used to run a hotel where every year we had oystercatchers nesting in the gravel that surrounded the hotel at 4.30am they would start.

I like Wagtails or Peewits I love they way they fly about, like their just having a laugh..
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This monster ...

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Peewits

Ha ha ,that was my second choice.

Song Thrush.

Beautiful, intelligent bird - like the way it cocks its head when thinking ...

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like the way it cocks its head when thinking

Yeah, but how do you know it's thinking? Might have water in its ear. 😉

Where to start??
I see Flashy's wren and raise him a Superb Fairywren

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Slightly larger, I like these because they look like Lancaster bombers in flight:

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But at no.1 is this, because it says summer (in the UK) has arrived:

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But at no.1 is this, because it says summer (in the UK) has arrived:

No, they're the little bastards that crap all over my car for 3 months a year.

Little Grebe for me but I am quite keen on ducks in general

Up in the hills the noise of Grouse has always been funny .
My mum told us when we were wee,that they were saying "getback getback"

Oh,and the cry of the Loons* from hill Lochs, nice 🙂

* [i]not the lost bikers shouting "my Garmins died"[/i]

I was surprised to hear that Starlings have greatly declined over the last few years. There used to be thousands of em around, with the glistening wings. Not the loveliest of birds, but shame if they're dying out.
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I'm not much of a bird watcher but me and a colleague were looking for a fault on an overhead line last Thursday in the pitch black on the edge of the Peaks. As we were sorting out the paperwork in the car, an owl sat on a wall right outside the car window and just watched us. Couldn't tell you what sort of an owl it was but it was a a bit special as moments go.

Owls are chuffin amazing. On the one hand they are cute and cuddly and do the weird almost 360 swivel of their heads. Their young are impossibly cute.

On the other hand they are lean mean killing machines that could rip your face off if they felt so inclined.

Owls = awesumz

Love 'em all, but if pushed to name a fave ~ jackdaws it is!
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Closely followed by jays and the rest of the corvid family 🙂

Theres something about a Goshawks eyes, terrifying. Awesome Bird.

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We have a parrot* who visits occasionally - vanished for a while but saw (and heard!) him again a couple of weeks ago. I feel a bit sorry for the poor guy, all alone, but he seems to have fun winding up the jackdaws.

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*Parakeet, really.

I was surprised to hear that Starlings have greatly declined over the last few years. There used to be thousands of em around, with the glistening wings. Not the loveliest of birds, but shame if they're dying out.

The entire population is outside Gravely's Chippy by Leeds market.

*Parakeet, really.

Where's that? I've seen them a few times in London, but not elsewhere in the UK.

Glasgow 😉

Waxwings are gorgeous looking things. Like they've been painted by a fine artist.
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And the much under rated crested tit:

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The entire population is outside Gravely's Chippy by Leeds market

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I have an inquisitive little Robin who frequents the back garden.

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Picture taken last year, while I was cleaning the bikes.

Can you northern folk give me my starlings back please.

Marabou stork is my favourite bird. It always looks a bit grumpy, like me.

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These always look good when I'm cycling to work.

Suprisingly there's always loads of these on the ground when I'm cycling along the riverbank.
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For proper bird life you need to go to New Zealand.

I give you the Kea (eater of windscreen wipers and tents)...

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...and the mighty Weka stealer of crisps...

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