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Mourning doves are among my favorite species bird. Hawks and other raptors are also some of my favorites. What is/are your favorite(s) type of bird?

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MettaCompassion 5 June 11
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Mockingducks and grackles. I love their music.

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the eastern bluebird is another favorite for their sweet sounds and lovely looks.

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i do love the wood thrush for their song, a most beautiful and haunting one.

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as a former wildlife rehabilitator, i got in a nest of blue jays and raised them to release stage. forever i will be indebted to these birds for showing me the corvid familys intelligence.

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I particularly like to watch hummingbirds.

Hummingducks are awesome!

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I am partial to corvids first of all, because of their intelligence and problem solving abilities, and after that the raptors. There is a flock of crows I ride past almost daily. For the first few days they fled at my approach, now they just hang out and caw at me. Clearly they recognize me and understand I am no threat.

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Cuckoos, Eagles, Falcons, Owls, Hummingbirds, Pelicans. Not partial to anyone, I adore all animals.

azzow2 Level 9 June 11, 2018
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Can't really say overall except one bird.... the lowly humble Inca dove { columbina inca } from my home state.. They have the most beautiful, haunting coo pattern... I know it's illegal but have always wanted one or a pair. I can dream... I miss the sound of them so much. 😟 😟 😟
In our area I do much enjoy the inordinate amount of hawks in the neighborhood. They're fantastic. Once caught a "kettle" in the fall while playing badminton in the back yard years ago. It was quite a sight, seeing 30+ birds hovering overhead in a swirl of grandeur.

Qualia Level 8 June 11, 2018
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Magpies, they don't come west of the Cascades so I rarely see them. Got this picture of a barred owl in the woods near where I live, hear them often but rarely see them.

I’ve never saw a Magpie.. But do know the ‘eastern’ Barred Owls are displacing the west coast’s Spotted Owls…

@Varn Wonderful Blue/ blacker than black and white plumage ...best viewed in bright sun, slim jay type body with long tails. I've seen them across the plains from central Washington to Kansas

@Varn When my kids were little we lived in a really tiny place. The tree in front of the house had a magpie nest and a one of the huge backyard trees had orioles. The magpies never moved their nest but the orioles moved theirs a little higher up and a little farther out so the cat couldn't get it. The magpie nest was a huge ball of twigs.

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The harpy eagle, crows and liar birds

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I like most birds, but I am not a fan of mocking birds or cardinals. Mocking birds because I lived near one for a while. It always sang at night just as I would get comfortable with one of its melodies it would change the tune making it hard to get to sleep.

Cardinals are noisy little critters and I had one terrorize the windows on my house over a couple of weeks. It kept on crashing into the windows...I went outside with a broom and then a hose trying to scare it away, but not such luck...it finally did stop, I think it must have based its brains out against the one of the windows. Mad little fucker.

cava Level 7 June 11, 2018

Having moved from West to East.. those are two of my favorite ‘new birds.’ Though the Mockingbirds will chase off the Cardinals, I don’t have to go far to find a family of them, vivid red & side-lit in the sun 🙂

@Varn They are noisy neighbors, or what has been your experience with them.

@cava The Cardinals have been such a treat to see & hear that I’m still in love with them. And since the Mockingbirds chase them from my yard, I’ve not been ‘bothered’ by any annoying antics. A Mockingbird going off at 4AM still amazes me, and I’ve never known a more energetic bird! I think one pair raised 3 sets of young - in 3 different nests in one season! I spend a lot of time in my yard ..and they’re right there with me 🙂

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I chose them all. I love all birds except vultures. Those are some ugly creatures.

Gotta watch those vultures soar ... tuck in their ugly necks and become graceful 🙂

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Whichever bird I'm currently looking at - I live in the moment. I have stories about chickens, geese, crows, ravens, rock doves, eagles, falcons, robins, water fowl, peacocks, parakeets, parrots and on and on.

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I often feel the same regarding the question, "what’s your favorite apple?" ‘The last one I ate!’ Favorite bird, the last one having peacefully drank from my birdbath as I watched..

Had to get serious once, when my daughters’ asked, so I decided the (American) Robin (helped having a daughter with the same name, though she was named after Madalyn Murray O’Hair’s Granddaughter/ adpt. Daughter). Though nearly everywhere, Robin’s have something I love about every bird 🙂

Varn Level 8 June 11, 2018
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I'm not a fan of keeping them in captivity, but for intelligence, plumage, and sociability; the parrot species are the coolest.

JimG Level 8 June 11, 2018

agreed

I also agree. I'm opposed to keeping any birds as "pets."

@BlueWave I agree. I should have been less specific about the captive birds. 😉

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