top 10

Much inspired by the threads of @Austin the Sengi for top 5 favorite deer and antelope, I thought I'd make one for birds, but top 10 since there are many more species of birds in the world. Your list can be whatever you want, you can even put species that you haven't seen before, as long as they...

List your top ten favorite species of woodpeckers, any bird within the family Picidae. My personal list, in no particular order. Pileated woodpecker Lewis's woodpecker Acorn woodpecker Northern flicker Red-headed woodpecker Puerto Rican woodpecker Downy woodpecker Red-bellied woodpecker...

I was looking through the gallery earlier at some of the images zoochatters had taken of passerines and was struck by how beautiful many of these birds truly are. Doing a bit of background reading on a couple of these I was also struck by just how many of these are endangered and at risk of...