[Closed] What's your favourite bird? (feathered variety)

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Beautiful and effortless in flight. Very distinctive call as well. Pieeeuooooooooooooooooo. 🙂

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Would have to be the Kea. Cheeky little gits. Kinda like the NED of the bird world.

So much fun sitting at the South Island ski resorts and watching them destroy other peoples cars/skis/boards/bikes etc

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Seen a few peregrine falcons around Mill Hill near shoreham last summer. Looking forward to the warmer weather and walking my dog round there again to catch a glimpse of them stooping. It's an amazing sight.

Puffins are ace - spent many an hour on long yacht races being ammused by their antics.

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Where I work we have dozens of Red Kites, love watching them soar, just effortless.

Did a bird survey in Uni, if Blue Tits were the size of crows we would all live in fear, they strike so hard they actually bend their skulls.

Keas are just aggro buggers, well so would you be if you were an alpine parrot.

Duks dude they can fly2 the noth poll useing magnits in there heds but cum bak in sumar and they tast wikid awsum if u lik casarol

[url= ]Red Kite [/url]Evocative of long days out in Mid Wales, especially in the Spring.

Chikin is betar if u lik fryng thogh

At the moment I have to say sea eagles after having seen two of them soaring above the Tay estuary near Tentsmuir forest a few weeks ago. have seen then on Mull but after seeing them so close to home I'm smitten.
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Peregrines and sea eagles. Sea eagles are huge

i quite like ospreys.

oh and surely Mark datz is a troll!!

The buzzards were putting on quite a show around loch tummel last weekend, some crossed the road at what seemed like head height about 5 metres in front of me!

Am a huge fan of the capercaillie at the moment, seeing footage on youtube of one taking out David Attenborough was classic. Looking forward to going to caper-watch at Loch Garten this year.

Have a soft spot for Heron as well, never fail to impress me when I see them standing stock still at a riverside, and very prehistoric looking in flight (Have heard stories of Sea Eagles taking Heron, that would be impressive!)

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I like tits!

A Woodpecker that wakens me up every morning, much better than the alarm.

I don't think I can pick one.
Crows are beautiful and entertaining to watch.

Most sea birds are pretty good too. I've never seen a wild bird of paradise but bet they are stunning. We have quite a few eagles and kites here and they are great when out riding as they tend to follow us along the trail.

Swifts are pretty impressive too and I could happy watch them all afternoon.
Over the last three weeks we have had swallows buzzing around our roof and they are great to watch. Not only are they a sign of Spring but they have good interaction too.

Maybe swallows at the moment.

I like tits!

Nah, boobies are better. Much bigger you see.

Too many birds to single out one, but I am currently enjoying seeing Jays in the grounds at work. I suppose they're fairly common round here (Hampsire/Surrey) but back in South Wales where I live they are quite rare. I like to think of how the geology affects the soil and consequently the plants, trees and wildlife.

Edit: and there's also green woodpeckers here too, you get some great views of them since they are so used to people.

I like watching Starlings strut about and squabble, got lovely markings too
Sadly overlooked bird, but great characters to have in the garden

A slightly surreal experience was hearing a Starling mimic a Curlew, all the more so because it was in someone's back garden, not the lonesome wetlands I would normally associate with Curlews.

Beautiful and effortless in flight. Very distinctive call as well. Pieeeuooooooooooooooooo.

MM: is that a Harris[es] Hawk? One day I intend having one - go the location, just need the previous experience now.

Opps, didn't say what it is. 😳
It's a Buzzard. Loads of them around my way. Quite often have a couple soaring over my house.

There are birds and then there are BIRDS

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pied wagtail. every time.

I like the laughing call of the green woodpecker
and also hearing the skylark brightens even a dull day.

Chuff (or is it chough)

It's a Buzzard. Loads of them around my way. Quite often have a couple soaring over my house.

Looks redder than the one's we have here. Nice pic.

Golden Eagle - utterly majestic
Snowy Owl - stunning plummage
Barn Owl - silent killer

I have Goldfinches in my garden all the time, along with Wrens and they are both lovely to see and watch.

Favourite Bird - The Yellow Belly!!

The Dipper

Osprey - awesome, . . . . now that's proper fishing!!

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I like tits!

personally i prefer shags...

The [url= http://www.arkive.org/fluffy-backed-tit-babbler/macronous-ptilosus/ ]fluffy backed tit babbler[/url] wins with the name though 😀

A shoebill I'd say, although there was a decent sized eagle owl in a cage in a garden in satterthwaite. That was a fair sized thing.

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I dislike birds. Anything with feathers is not to be trusted or admired. Kinda like bearded men.

I've always liked Kestrels. Not really sure why, but it could be because I found a young one when I was a kid and looked after it for a while.

That and they can hover, which is cool.

We had some Rhea's running wild round here, ecsaped after floods.
Bit of a shock riding along a bridle path & coming nose to beak I can tell you.

Other than that
Barn Owls
King Fishers
Dippers

I am a big fan of the plain old Blackbird

Ravens. I never get bored of watching ravens catching air currents and seeming to enjoy the sheer thrill of being a bird.
(you can keep your Golden Eagles etc, nice though they are)

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Long time since I last saw one.

Avocets, little egrets or possibly bee-eaters. Oh, that or king-fishers. I'll take a standard kingfisher, but some of the ones I saw in Africa were fantastic. 🙂

I like the Ring Ouzel (or its unfortunate other name Turdus torquatus 😳 )

Here is one of my drawings (which are for sale) of one here.
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(Others are available on request and commissions accepted. Email and blog site in profile 🙂 )

All owls and I love the local kingfisher.

Fan of the Turdus merula myself. Handsome chap he is 🙂

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Mynah bird - just cause of the sheer range of noise they come up with
Ravens - massively clever, apparently, know how to use tools
That eagle owl which is on the loose and could apparently steal cats and small dogs away 😮