What is your favorite bird? And every fowl encounter you've had under the sun

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Not my favourite this morning,a tree load screaming for me to wake up 😑:grin:Eating the last of the apples ,making a mess.
 
Waiting for 11am to find out new cases,I think breaches occurred among staff at quarantine hotels .
 
Well hurry up and sort things out because I want the Adelaide crows To play actual HOME games.
 
Shall do our best 🙂
New rooster , he’s still growing.
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No,he’s for breeding come Spring .He’s a little cheeky giving a warning sound when I walk into the yard ,but quiet enough to catch and hold …more of a pet.
The magpies are being territorial so he helps protect the hens when they swoop.
 
He’s meant to be a Plymouth Rock…I’m not sure if he’s purebred though…a little on the small side but that’s ok.He was just a gangly chicken back in March,so we shall see🤔
 
I have noticed a hawk flying around our house lately - which is strange given we live in town. The other day, he was carrying a snake out of the yard.

So, hawks are currently my favorite bird. Plus, they are not noisy.
 
Every morning when I go out walking just before dawn, I hear the constantly changing call of the Northern Mockingbird. Part of it’s repertoire of noises is a perfect imitation of the scrub jay. Those blue birds used to be plentiful in my neighborhood, but now they seem to have retreated to the nearby hills and mountains. I haven’t seen a scrub jay near my house in over ten years. I’m wondering, do Northern Mockingbirds have to hear a sound before they add it to their list of noises, or are some sounds hardwired in their DNA? 🤔
 
jvickers said:
So, hawks are currently my favorite bird. Plus, they are not noisy.
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The Hawthorn hawks are one of the many AFL teams that I despise, if you think the Hawthorn hawks are quiet, you
should hear them during a game!!!
 
As for hybridized chickens, we had Silkies with red combs and wattles. Silkies normally have black skin and feathers on top of their heads instead of combs. May have combs beneath the feathers, but in real Silkies, they’re hard to see. And no red. The breeder said ours were Silkies, but they obviously weren’t purebred.

We also had little banty hens and roosters. Banty refers to size, not breed. Almost any breed of small size can be called a Banty (or Bantam).
 
Here’s y’alls bird update: I found 2020 year bird #188 Wood Duck at our local urban wetlands last week. A trip up world famous Madera Canyon on the 4th of July got me my target birds of #189 Elegant Trogon and #190 Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher. We’re going back tomorrow to spend a night in a cabin to celebrate our 26th wedding anniversary which was yesterday. Should provide some good photo ops.

Here’s the Wood Duck in eclipse plumage. It’s a plumage that the males go into after breeding season which is a little more cryptic. The others are either Mallards or Mexican Ducks, I didn’t bother to pick them apart. Mexican Ducks recently got recognized as their own species. The green stuff is duck weed. Ducks eat it. It’s a good thing.

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Here’s the trogon. Everybody wants to see one. They’re pretty easy to find in appropriate habitat, they sound like a cross between a turkey and a small dog but they can be a bit of a ventriloquist and hard to pin down. This bird eventually flew to the top of a large sycamore tree and continued to call for the rest of the morning. It was pretty funny, throughout the morning their was a host of birders (including me) with their long lenses peering up into the top of the tree hoping for a photo. I never did manage to see it up there.

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This is another local specialty, the Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher. Their call sounds exactly like the squeaks from a rubber ducky. It’s pretty comedic listening to them.

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And finally, we spied a group of vultures starting to warm up for the morning. Here’s two of them.

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