Your Favorite Bird? (1 Viewer)

[Doughnuteater]

It dosen't have to be one you have seen or not seen, just plain and simply...
What's your favorite bird?

Mine is the Western Kingbird!

 

[Lisa W]

Mine is the bird that started it all. It took me a long time to finally see instead of hear him, and even longer to get a photo - the Elegant Trogon
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/90932/ppuser/39270

 

[logsaysned]

For me its Brewer's Sparrow. That's the bird that first got me into studying birds, as opposed to "watching" them. Its so drab that many wouldn't give it a second look, but spend some time out in the sagebrush and they grow on you. Hearing 6-7 territorial males singing just after sunrise in the sagebrush, it sounds as if the aliens have landed and their tractor beams are pulling you in. But no, its just a little brown songbird, yet it does pull you.

 

[Steve Babbs]

any pitta, they're all georgeous

 

[Birdbrainjwc]

Gray Jay for sure! I love those secretive, but brave, gracefully drab birds. Plus, at the young birders conference in Minot, ND, Louise Zemaitis gave out bird names to everyone, and mine is Gray Jay, with out her knowing it was my fave.

 

[Tero]

Raven.

 

[rokermartin]

Has to be Pallas's Warbler for me.

 

[dafi]

Mine changes as the year progresses. At the moment its probably the Arctic Scua.

 

[KC Foggin]

Mine would be the Pileated Woodpecker. Just so damn prehistoric in its looks.

 

[Gashead]

I've always liked male pintail... you couldn't design a smarter bird.

 

[rockfowl]

Grey-necked Picathartes - never tire of these Zebedee on legs
http://www.rockfowl.co.uk/why/

 

[pie]

The sound of a Curlew in a remote wetland area.

The night I saw a Nightjar through a scope!

 

[Mannix]

Having to think about this for so long tells me that I do not have a favourite bird so it would be wrong to try to pick one. There are some that I love to see more than others and they include, Avocet, Kingfisher, Wheatear, Bullfinch, Hen Harrier, Swift.
I could go on...

 

[Floyd Barnes]

A male Redstart - in oak woodland at dawn, in early May.

 

[nigel_b]

For me, the common and humble swallow, for its beautiful appearence and magnificent migration flights. They keep me entertained while I buzz about at the farm. I love 'em!

 

[Chris D]

Just back from a month in Eastern Bali. Some nice birds there and other places on the planet. My favorite is still the Scrub Jay though. Crazy-fun-cool. Wilderness and inner-city. Blue -- nest robber, peanut stasher, mimmic, ass-kicker......

 

[fugl]

My favorite is still the Scrub Jay though. Crazy-fun-cool. Wilderness and inner-city. Blue -- nest robber, peanut stasher, mimmic, ass-kicker......

I'm with you there, the Western Scrub-Jay is all those things, and is one of my favorites. On an occasion in the late fall a couple of years ago a jay flew into a crabapple near where I was standing and sang--a beautiful melodious whisper song which it kept up for several minutes until I broke the spell by moving away. We were eyeball-to-eyeball the whole time; the bird was at head height and only a couple of feet away, and so close I could have reached out and touched it. All in all, a remarkable and memorable experience, though like so much human/scrub-jay interaction doubtless mostly about the peanuts I held in my hand. Unfortunately there have been no repetitions since then--there are always jays about and I always have plenty of peanuts for them, but there's been no more song, only the usual squawks and rattles.

 

[Euan Buchan]

Mine has always been The Great Tit

 

[Sherry8]

The pileated woodpecker is quite a site. The first time I saw it, I couldn't believe my eyes. It looked like a large chicken flying..I loved listening to it knocking on the hollow trees in the woods we used to have...I do miss seeing him since we moved...Sherry8

 

[Sherry8]

I can't even pick a favorite...I love them all but if I had to...I guess it would be the cardinal. I used to have 5 pairs before we moved and in the winter with the snow in the background they looked so beautiful. The males and females were always together...Sherry8