Your favorite bird family? (1 Viewer)

[vulcanraven]

My favorite bird family are corvids. I have always had a fascination with them. Ten years ago I went abroad to the UK and I remember seeing these beautiful ravens in the royal palace. They are intelligent (rivaling apes) and many of the species have learned to adapt to human habitats. We have a long history with them .

What are yours? If you don't have a favorite family, just list a species.

 

[ovenbird43]

Tough choice! But I choose antbirds (Thamnophilidae). It's hard to say exactly why, although all my favorites tend to be small, skulky passerines. Antbirds are so diverse (over 200 species), restricted to my favorite biogeographic region (Neotropics), handsomely patterned in blacks/grays/browns with the occasional splash of red or blue, and most are a challenge and therefore a treat to see well. Many exhibit interesting behaviors, such as a few that attend army ant swarms to snap up fleeing insects, and I love how many will perch sideways on vertical branches. Most have a certain quality to their voices that evokes fond memories of the Amazon rainforest, where I first encountered antbirds.

runner-ups: wrens, antpittas, pittas, New World warblers, New World sparrows.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Definitely a hard choice, but I'm going to go with cranes.

Asian barbets, potoos, and todies also in the running.

 

[solarrobor]

I don't have a single favourite family, rather a couple: Hornbills, Weavers, Barbets, Sunbirds, Babblers, Thrushes, Woodpeckers

 

[Frogfish]

Anything colourful (can I have Birds of Paradise) !

Probably Nectariniidae, lots of sunbirds, spiderhunters etc. in that one.

 

[Gill Osborne]

Herons & Egrets! :t:

Gorgeous statuesque birds that have me just ITCHING to sketch them! o

 

[fugl]

Corvids for me--alert, athletic, intelligent, with their eyes always on the main chance.

 

[chowchilla]

Babblers, Kingfishers, Rollers, Woodpeckers, Bowerbirds.

 

[Vectis Birder]

Hard to give just one, but I especially like chats, hummingbirds, sunbirds, bowerbirds, tanagers and kingfishers.

 

[Monahawk]

Owls.

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Owls.

+1

Also like Jays and Woodpeckers.

 

[Mysticete]

New World Warblers for their diversity and their sheer beauty

 

[halftwo]

Pittas

 

[njlarsen]

Hummingbirds. Close seconds are trogons, todys, and kingfishers and allies.

 

[chris butterworth]

Pittas

Agree ( although Pterodroma Petrels come a very close second. )

 

[stevo]

Chats,with owls a close 2nd.

Cheers.

Steve.

 

[punkskaphil]

Owls for me, and has been since I was a little kid.

 

[string boozel]

it's a hard one to call but I think Shrikes would do it for me.

 

[Enji]

I love waders of all kinds, especially the smaller species. Beautiful, sometimes a challenge to identify which makes it fun, and often very confiding creatures. They have it all!

 

[mairse]

You'd love it here then, red backed shrikes are common and the last 2 years have nested on our land!