Your Top 10 Favorite Birds

savetherhino said:
1. Victoria Crowned Pigeon
2. Rockhopper Penguin
3. Waldrapp Ibis
4. White Faced Whistling Duck
5. Greater Bird Of Paradise
6. Violet Turaco
7. Northern Cardinal
8. Black Capped Chickadee
9. Roseate Spoonbill
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That's only nine right there, not ten, so you can add one more if you want.
 
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Rockhopper Penguin
Waldrapp Ibis
White Faced Whistling Duck
Greater Bird Of Paradise
Violet Turaco
Northern Cardinal
Black Capped Chickadee
Roseate Spoonbill
Taveta Golden Weaver
 
Too difficult to choose from all species, so I limit it to species I have seen in real life that was already a challenge:
- Lear's macaw: beautiful and intelligent bird, a joy to work with
- Common kingfisher: one of the prettiest birds around and a delight to observe fishing (and photographing)
- James's flamingo: my favorite birdfamily and this species being the rarest in captivity
- Carmine bee-eater: bee-eaters in general are very beautiful and always active birds. But this species is my favorite and having seen them in captivity and the wild is a nice extra.
- Japanese crane: always nice to see, not always nice to work with.
- Steller sea-eagle: impressive birds and holding them and seeing them from close by only adds to my fascination
- Zebra finches: my passion for 25 years now to keep and breed them. All the behavioural studies on this species give an extra dimension to this species.
- Flame bower bird
- Tufted puffin
- Curl-crested aracari
 
I can't believe that I didn't see this sooner! It would be hard for me to narrow my list down to a top 100, but I'll give a top 10 a try in no particular order.

Pink-headed Fruit-Dove
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Crested Quail-Dove
Red-crested Turaco
Australian Wood Duck
West African Crowned Crane
Black-faced Ibis
Crested Coua
White-crested Laughingthrush
Emerald Starling

I'm going to stop before I change my mind again! I love all of the doves, turacos, cranes, lories, perching ducks, sunbittern, kagu, Inca Tern, tanagers, bulbuls, and the list goes on!
 
Nile Hippo Expert said:
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 are still extant today.

Here is my list:
1. California Condor
2. Andean Condor
3. Rhinoceros Hornbill
4. Marabou Stork
5. Great Argus Pheasant
6. Southern Cassowary
7. Secretarybird
8. Kakapo
9. Helmeted Guineafowl
10. Swordbilled Hummingbird
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Hi, can I make a top 5 canine list in the style of this, assuming you're ok with the idea? Couldn't find a way to message you so I just replied to your thread.
 
Hmmm this is a really tough one, but I think I'd go with:
  1. Emperor Penguin
  2. Scarlet Macaw/Blue-and-Gold Macaw
  3. Greater Flamingo
  4. Toco Toucan
  5. Rainbow Lorikeet
  6. Common Ostrich
  7. Bald Eagle
  8. Indian Peafowl
  9. Snowy Owl
  10. Southern Cassowary
Honorable mentions: Emu, California Condor, Grey Crowned Crane, Atlantic Puffin

It's easy to pick favorites from certain bird orders but trying to pick a few favorites from the entire class makes you realize how small of a number 10 actually is.
 
In no particular order

Wood Duck
Pileated Woodpecker
Red Legged Seriema
Gentoo Penguin
American White Pelican
Scarlet Macaw
Masked Lapwing
Osprey
Red Crowned Crane
Boat Billed Heron
 
No particular order

Secretary Bird
Southern Cassowary
King Penguin
Flightless Steamer Duck
Rhinoceros Hornbill
White-tailed Eagle
Eurasian Spoonbill
Shoebill
Grey Crowned Crane
Griffon Vulture
 
Trying to make it as varied as possible, so only one per family ;)
  1. Yellow-eyed penguin
  2. Southern cassowary
  3. Keel-billed toucan
  4. Knobbed hornbill
  5. King vulture
  6. Bearded vulture
  7. Eclectus parrot
  8. Kea
  9. Peruvian pelican
  10. Spangled cotinga
Honorable mentions: king penguin, great crested grebe, great cormorant, goliath heron, king eider, North Island brown kiwi, Western capercaillie, tawny frogmouth, great grey owl, Steller's sea eagle, hyacinth macaw, wandering albatross, Inca jay, superb bird of paradise
 
1. Japanese Crested Ibis

2. Copper Pheasant

3. Blakiston's Fish Owl

4. (Japanese) Rock Ptarmigan

5. Southern Oriental Pied Hornbill

6. Black Backed Dwarf Kingfisher

7. Baikal Teal

8. Straw Headed Bulbul

9. Blue Winged Pitta

10. Blue and White Flycatcher

In no particular order, except for the first 3. Honestly I have so many memories with these species, and their sightings were very special to me. Some like the Crested Ibis and Baikal teal were what first got me into birding, and some like the Blakiston's Fish Owl and Rock Ptarmigan were the result of a lot of effort to try and find.
 
1. Andean condor
2. Humboldt penguin
3. North Island brown kiwi
4. Southern cassowary
5. Greater flamingo
6. Little blue penguin
7. North Island saddleback
8. Barn owl
9. Morepork
10. Southern royal albatross
 
While I still find myself favoring the majority of the birds I initially listed. Looking back, I figured that a more definitive list of birds I appreciate both in the wild and captivity would feel more genuine (and in no particular order, this time around):
  • Shoebill
  • Southern Cassowary
  • Roseate Spoonbill
  • Crested Caracara
  • West African (Black) Crowned Crane
  • Malay Great Argus
  • Atlantic Puffin
  • California Condor
  • Purple Gallinule
  • Saddle-Billed Stork
 
My top 10 in no specific order

1. Violet Turaco
2. White Stork
3. Common Eider
4. African Sacred Ibis/Scarlet Ibis/Northern Bald Ibis
5. Great White Pelican
6. Grey Heron
7. Griffon Vulture
8. African Penguin
9. Eurasian Eagle Owl
10. Black-crowned Night Heron

The reason is that some of these I often see in the wild and I love seeing them when I go birdwatching, but also some of these are at my local zoo and I kinda developed a connection to the certain individuals of that species when I volunteered there.
 
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