The Ultimate, Essential Bird Meta-Wishlist (Habitat AND Aviary)

TheDuckKnight

TheDuckKnight
Urufu1997 said:
🤔 Turkey?🦃
I think I've heard once that it was planned once to make it the National Bird or something similar
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Gobble gobble you got it!

Ben Franklin infamously was a turkey stan, going as far to cancel bald eagles in a letter to his daughter:

"For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perch'd on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this Injustice, he is never in good Case but like those among Men who live by Sharping and Robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District".
 

RightWhale

RightWhale
TheDuckKnight said:
List has been updated!

Pretty light week with no major changes.

Happy July 4th! I know that's only an American holiday. But if there's one thing the American public education system taught me, it's the Internet belongs to AMERICA.

So my fellow AMERICANS, weekly community poll, to celebrate our national symbol of AMERICA, what's your favorite eagle?

Remember, there's only one right answer:

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And bonus question, what bird was considered to be the icon of AMERICA before the eagle?? No cheating on Wikipedia!!!

P.S. Yes, if you're actually not AMERICAN, you can particpate. After all today, everyone is AMERICAN. Don't believe me? Just ask the news reporters of the FreedomEaglePatriotAmericanHeroFoundingFatherGun.com!
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Bald Eagle is my favorite for patriotic reasons, but for a more personal reason I think the Golden, Stellars, and Harpy are all super cool!
 

Turinzoo

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1. Eagle Owl
2. Snowy Owl
3. Kakapo
4. Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo
5. Red Tailed Black Cockatoo
6. Rainbow Lorikeet
7.Shoebill
8. Eurasian Scops Owl
9. Golden Eagle
10. Harpy Eagle
11. Eurasian Goshawk
12. Tawny Frogmouth
13. Black Baza
14.Laughing Kookuburra
15. Village Weaver Bird
16. Kiwi
17.Greater Roadrunner
18. Greater Bird of Paradise
19. King Bird of Paradise
20. Takahe
21.Egyptian goose
22. Magpie Goose
23.peregrine falcon
24. Galah
25. A fruit pidgeon of some kind
 
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conorbebe

conorbebe
  1. African openbill
  2. African sacred ibis
  3. Canada goose
  4. Great blue heron
  5. Great bustard
  6. Greater rhea
  7. Greater sage-grouse
  8. Great white pelican
  9. Grey crowned crane
  10. Helmeted guineafowl
  11. Himalayan monal
  12. Kākāpō
  13. Little blue penguin
  14. Mallard duck
  15. Marabou stork
  16. Mute swan
  17. Northern island kiwi
  18. Northern rockhopper penguin
  19. Roseate spoonbill
  20. Saddle-billed stork
  21. Secretary bird
  22. Shoebill
  23. Southern ground hornbill
  24. Superb lyrebird
  25. Wild turkey
 
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DrBurrito

DrBurrito
DrBurrito said:
Seeing the recent discussion about kestrel species, I would like to clarify why my vote for the European kestrel has the term "European" in parentheses. According to Zootierliste, those particular holdings are for the subspecies F. t. tinnunculus, for which on the website they use the common name "European kestrel". This is a subspecies of the common kestrel, so I had to put "European" in parentheses, as this is the format I use for subspecies and disputed (sub)species, when writing up my lists. This does not imply kestrels are monotypic.

Since species level is the preferred rank in this thread, the appropriate way to add this species to the falcon category would be by calling it the common kestrel, instead of European.

My extra five votes, using the same method I've described for my first twenty:
  1. Eastern rosella (no subspecific status) - 200 EAZA holdings
  2. (Eurasian) long-eared owl - 187 EAZA holdings
  3. Sun conure - 179 EAZA holdings
  4. White-tailed eagle - 170 EAZA holdings
  5. Common buzzard (no subspecific status) - 166 EAZA holdings
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TheDuckKnight said:
List has been updated!

Hey hey, our first non-duck sweep! Pheasants have flown their way into the Top 5 spot! With that said, vultures, toucans, and pelicans are still close contenders - shortening the gap amongst the top 10 species.

With that said, we say congrats to our THIRD species to make it to triple digits - macaws!

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To celebrate, weekly community poll - what's your favorite macaw species?

It's a bit basic, but you can't beat the classic imo - Scarlet

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POV: you STILL haven't voted in the Bird Wishlist
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Dear Anatidae overlord, I would kindly like to make a reminder. It seems my additional five votes have gone victim to oversight with the focus of my post being around the discussion of kestrel classification. The votes for sun conure, white-tailed eagle and common buzzard are still where they were before the update and the two species that are completely new to the list, eastern rosella and long-eared owl are also missing.
 

YesIndeed

YesIndeed
TheDuckKnight said:
List has been updated!

Pretty light week with no major changes.

Happy July 4th! I know that's only an American holiday. But if there's one thing the American public education system taught me, it's the Internet belongs to AMERICA.

So my fellow AMERICANS, weekly community poll, to celebrate our national symbol of AMERICA, what's your favorite eagle?

Remember, there's only one right answer:

View attachment 360379

And bonus question, what bird was considered to be the icon of AMERICA before the eagle?? No cheating on Wikipedia!!!

P.S. Yes, if you're actually not AMERICAN, you can particpate. After all today, everyone is AMERICAN. Don't believe me? Just ask the news reporters of the FreedomEaglePatriotAmericanHeroFoundingFatherGun.com!
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Harpy eagle is better. Fight me Americans.
 

MissySanchez

MissySanchez
1. North island brown kiwi
2. Little blue penguin
3. Sulphur crested cockatoo
4. Galah
5. Cockatiel
6. Gray parrot
7. Blue and yellow macaw
8. Hyacinth macaw
9. Bald eagle
10. Harpy eagle
11. Brown pelican
12. Pink pelican
13. Dalmatian pelican
14. Helmeted guineafowl
15. White backed vulture
16. Hooded vulture
17. Peregrine
18. Red tailed hawk
19. Golden pheasant
20. Mandarin duck
21. Canada goose
22. Ocellated turkey
23. Roseate spoonbill
24. Scarlet ibis
25. Hummingbirds
 

CarbonHomoxide

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1. Roseate Spoonbill
2. Snow Owl
3. Secretary Bird
4. Kiwi
5. Bearded Vulture
6. Chicken
7. Mandarin Duck
8. Magnificent Frigatebird
9. Scarlet Ibis
10. Pileated Woodpecker
11. Lyrebird
12. Woodcock
13. Barn Owl
14. American Flamingo
15. Little Blue Penguin
16. Mute Swan
17. Arctic Tern
18. Gray Crowned Crane
19. California Condor
20. Canada Goose
21. Bald Eagle
22. African Gray Parrot
23. Blue Footed Booby
24. Sandpiper
25. Kingfisher
 
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