What is your favorite bird?

[Jara sang]

[Zerex71]

1. My favorite bird is Charlie Parker.

[smartvoter]

2. Big Bird. nt

[ronnykmarshall]

3. The kind you flip.

[Shoeempress]

4. Gold finch, so pretty

[jukes]

5. "other"

songbird under a feralcat's paw!!!!!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:




got the feralcat haters 1st for once!!!


:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[jukes]

17. no flames, dammit!

actually, mourning doves. feed them for my cats to watch from their screenporch. love their call; so sad....

[flakey_foont]

6. Larry

[demnan]

7. I'll go for the titmouse

they have such fiesty personalities. Though so tiny they will grab a whole peanut and take it away. Brave little birds!

I also love cardinals. The other night I saw the male cardinal feed his mate a sunflower seed. It was so sweet.

[FuzzySlippers]

8. I love parrots.

I wish I had a parrot. It would be nice to have someone intelligent to talk with for a change.

[Jara sang]

10. I wish I had a parrot that could talk and used profanity.

[movie_girl99]

24. my mother in law

has an African Grey that swears like a sailor with an English accent. He also has a smokers cough like my father in law. It's the funniest thing Ive ever seen or heard. oh and he eats eggs too...:shrug:

[rawtribe]

9. Hyacinth Macaw

You won't find this bird under a cats paw.

[Ladyhawk]

22. I played with a couple of hyacinth youngsters, once.

They were nine months old and I had trouble extricating them from my person. :) Imagine having two huge blue birds hanging off your shirt. :D

[AlienGirl]

44. At Walt Disney World I met one

There were two *gorgeous* Hyacinth Macaws sitting on a fence. The birds there have the run of the zoo, and these parrots were just sitting there. A tourist who apparently was not experienced with birds was holding out his finger in exactly the wrong way: wiggling it just under the macaw's beak in the spot where their vision is a bit blurry, and the bird was looking like he was going to take a bite (expecting a nut, I guess). So I walked over, offered my arm, and told the macaw to step up, which she did, which distracted her long enough that she didn't try to bite the guy's finger.

This macaw was four feet long! She was HUGE! I'm only four feet ten inches tall, and it looked funny to be holding a bird that big. She put her beak around my arm (checking the balance) and it closed around my arm--that was so neat, she could fit her entire beak around my arm!

Then a zoo worker ran over and told me not to touch the animals. I said, "I just offered, she touched me!" and was *not* thrown out of the park.

I still think the guy would've gotten nipped, too.

Tucker

[Ladyhawk]

25. The yellow areas around the eyes and beak

are actually bright yellow skin. There's also a yellow stripe down each side of the macaw's black tongue. These guys are fun to play with. :D



On edit: this is the world's largest parrot.

[Goldeneye]

11. Blue Tit.

[thecai]

12. Cock

Bad joke! ;-)
My favorites are Peacocks, Hummingbirds, Eagles, and all exotic birds.

[Double T]

13. Pelican

[everythingsxen]

14. Umbrella Cockatoo! Especially one named Gideon!

Though I do have a thing for crows and ravens; I like most birds in general though.

[Ladyhawk]

16. Hmmmm...you must be aliengirl's other half.

:D

I like crows and ravens, too...and Star Wars.

Ladyhawk <--ultrageek

[AlienGirl]

45. Cockatoos...nature's technology shredder.... n/t

[Ladyhawk]

15. A double yellowheaded Amazon named Gabby.

[candy]

18. Aw,come on---I thought this was a serious bird thread.

That said,I choose Painted Bunting,a bird I've never seen but would love to see.

[Ladyhawk]

19. There are so many you could add.

hummingbirds, towhees, penguins, puffins, ostriches, robins, orioles...

[XNASA]

20. Crested Night Heron

I had a special relationship with one once.

[cestpaspossible]

21. Chicken.

Roasted, fried, baked, no matter how you prepare it, it's my favorite bird. Duck is too hard to cook and turkeys are too big.

[movie_girl99]

23. Red-tailed Hawk

we have a nest near our house and i love to watch them.

[Strangefire]

26. Ravens

I love ravens, and I love the fact that I can just look out my window to the city street to see them doing the nutty raven things they do.

I've also heard that they're actually quite intelligent, and that captive ravens have been taught to mimic human speech, much like parrots.

[movie_girl99]

28. we have these big black birds here

i call them crows but maybe they're Ravens?? They do this weird courtship dance thing when the males are trying to impress the females i think. does that sound like a Raven?

[Ladyhawk]

29. Ravens are much larger than crows,

have a more raucous call, a larger beak and ruffled neck feathers. Crows' neck feathers appear more smooth.

[leftofthedial]

27. the middle finger one

by far

[In_The_Wind]

30. Blue & Gold Macaw

I also love Canaries

[Lilith Velkor]

31. An African Gray parrot named Aku

long before this guy showed up:

[jswordy]

32. Nuthatch

They provide hours of fun watching them on the tree trunk and around the feeder in the dead of winter while they stay over in this area.

[GreenPartyVoter]

33. Chickadees are very sweet :^D

[libhill]

34. Red breasted booby tit mouse

n/t

[WindRavenX]

35. Japanese Cranes and ravens

And

[jim3775]

36. Noone's mentioned the woodcock.

[streblin]

37. birds are captivating

i live in illinois and we enjoy this fellow quite a bit :

:hippie: :loveya:

[Maddy McCall]

38. Indigo bunting

We have them all over our property.

[elshiva]

39. Blue Heron.

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. The Albatross

especially when tied around my neck, and dragging me into the abyss.

[Wapsie B]

41. Freebird!

someone had to say it........

[u4ic]

42. Moustached Parakeets

are the neatest looking:



I'll go with the Hyacinth Macaw for most spectacular.

[KaliTracy]

43. Bobolink n/t

[jim3775]

46. It's nice living in one of the most...

...geologically and biologically diverse areas in the world.

There is an amazing collection of birds in Northwestern Ontario,

The Whiskey Jack


The Golden Eagle


The Great Horned Owl


And of course the Loon, these things are huge. I was snorkeling once and didn’t realize I was about 5 feet from one until I looked up at it. It must have been 2 feet long.


There's a bunch more here

[nevergiveup]

47. Lady Bird

[maveric]

48. Cardinal

If you ever saw one up close you'd might agree.

[Skittles]

49. bluebirds

not Blue Jays, bluebirds. Got some bluebird houses build to specs up at the farm, really enjoy watching the parents build nests and feed the babies. Very quickly sneak peeks at the babies too. :)