What's your bestest BIRD?

[Hungry Joe]

I love Little Egrets

 

[Trufflehound]

What a marvellous thread. Very fond of oystercatchers myself.

 

[scooter1]

Just waiting for the first pair of tits - blue or great please..

 

[readingstockport]

Rather partial to a shag when I can get one.

http://jackmaryetc.com/Travel/Europe/Lapland/images/shag.jpg



edit Bollocks, hate trying to post images on here.

 

[Commander]

Cracking thread.

I am particularly fond of the Great Crested Grebe:

The mating call of this marvellous creature is quite magnificent.

 

[Seagullible]

Grebes are one of my favourites along with the Kingfisher but my favourite bird is my very own African Grey parrot, Sussex

 

[captainmorganrum]

Favourite?
How can you pick just one?
The magpie, the blackbird or the Blue Tit.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Starlings. They used to look WICKERD flying above the West Pier until some **** burnt it down. Now they've all f***ed off.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Not a very macho bird, but.....


The Buff-Winged Starfrontlet.

This was a regular visitor to the log cabin where I lived, in Ecuador. If you were very still, you could get them to sit on your finger, whilst they drink.

 

[Hiney]

The GANNET:

The northern gannet (Morus bassanus) is the largest seabird breeding in the North Atlantic. More than 80% of the world population (ca. 350 000 pairs) breeds in the eastern Atlantic (Britain, Iceland, Ireland, France, Norway, and Faroe Islands). After a period of persecution and population decline during the 19th century, numbers at most colonies have increased and are still doing so. New colonies are still being established, and the population has now spread to Russia where the first breeding attempt was documented on the Kola Peninsula in 1996. The first Norwegian colony was established in 1946, and 50 years later the population in Norway had risen to nearly 4000 pairs in five colonies. Since then, sea eagles (Haliaeëtus albicilla) have preyed heavily on nesting adults in two of the colonies, causing sharp declines locally.

 

[watsongooal]

Cracking thread.

I am particularly fond of the Great Crested Grebe:

The mating call of this marvellous creature is quite magnificent.

Grebes do actually have a mating call. They however have a mating dance

 

[Trufflehound]

Good call on the grebes. There's loads of them over here - apparently they like the canals.

Some completely useless trivia to impress people in the pub: The Dutch for Great Crested Grebe is "Fuut". The Dutch for Oystercatcher is "Scholekster", which literally means "Plaice Magpie".

 

[Silent Bob]

The EMU.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Oz Prey, the bubble-haired cab diver in Birdenders.

Look at the wingspan. Prefect. Pterodactylesque.

 

[butchy]

Im quite fond of that one

 

[Trufflehound]

Favourite?
How can you pick just one?
The magpie, the blackbird or the Blue Tit.

Blackbirds are far and away the best of the garden birds...

 

[watsongooal]

Grebes do not actually have a mating call. They however have a mating dance

 

[Hungry Joe]

Good work all so far, some beauties there. Anyone who posts a picture of girls funbags will get a severe 'tut' from me, you've been warned kids.

 

[captainmorganrum]

The Dutch for Oystercatcher is "Scholekster", which literally means "Plaice Magpie".

Hmm, does exactly what it says on the tin!

My favourite Dutch animal word is KAKKERLAK.

 

[watsongooal]

Only one for me