I like that very much. Just look at a common starling in the sun for example, or a European goldfinch. I think Javan Rhino may have not totally expressed himself properly in post #7, but in response I would say that while I do like to see rare or endangered species and they sometimes are more appealing due to their rarity, it really isn't a factor in how much I like them as species (if that makes sense).
Well, peacock-pheasants, peafowl and tragopans are phasianids and so can reasonably be called 'pheasants'. Currassows would be stretching the point a bit - a bit like saying your favourite cat is the Spotted Hyaena!
Good call on the goldfinch - they've been doing really well in the wild around here the last few years and are absolutely stunning. In my mind, however, they are inextricably linked with the first place I saw them in large numbers, which was, perhaps oddly, the ruined site of the ancient Games at Olympia in Greece.
Maguari -- you would be more of a Silver Pheasant or possibly Kalij person then?
Let's face it, everything's got it's own appeal, possibly even Koalas, which, while they have very right to exist and are no doubt fascinating to many, leave me stone cold.
Red-eared Waxbills are lovely little birds, as of course are Golfinches.
Koalas are great to look at (they're weird, they're cute), but rubbish to watch (they do as near to nothing as makes no odds).
I think if pressed my favourite pheasants aesthetically speaking would probably be the various firebacks, but yes, Kalij are much more my style than Amherst's.
Maguari -- Siamese Fireback then?
Koalas weird? Binturongs do it better. Koalas cute? Ever seen a baby Crested porcupine tryng to look 'hard'?
Actually, I don't mind Timor Sparrows, I just like Javas better. And i could talk rubbish all night.
Maguari -- Siamese Fireback then?
Koalas weird? Binturongs do it better. Koalas cute? Ever seen a baby Crested porcupine tryng to look 'hard'?
Actually, I don't mind Timor Sparrows, I just like Javas better. And i could talk rubbish all night.
