Favorite bird right now

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Currently, my favorite bird is a Scarlet Ibis, primarily for its interesting appearance.

The osprey.

Chickadee's. They only care whether you have seeds in your hand or not. They don’t care about anything else!

I like ravens. They have incredibly vivid eyes and are quite bright.

Ravens and magpies for their intelligence!

Curlews

i love australian magpies right now.
they are difficult to tame. i have tame magpies that warble at me and come inside while i go to the fridge to get them some food.

i also love kookaburras, but i will focus on magpies in this post.

here is a mother and her almost fully grown chick having a chat.


here is a very tame magpie who just wants to be part of the action. she is just a little lost baby and you can see her greyish coloring and her baby voice.


here is a 60 minutes story on a beautiful magpie. the tamest i have ever seen

I like woodpeckers. They are a beautiful bird. One flew into my window. I went outside and picked it up. It was almost dead. I held it in my hand for awhile and softly petted it along its neck. Finally it began to move a little. I went outside and put it on a wooden guardrail. A few minutes latter it flew away.

Did you know that if they become “pet like” they sometimes start bringing you shiny presents? I wish I had a magpie. You get them in NZ but none live around here.

I always find it very difficult to pick out just one.

My current top five in no particular order would probably be : -

Razorbill (Alca torda)
Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)
Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)

If I had to pick just one it would probably be the Razorbill as it is the species I have spent most time studying.

Seconded: Ravens parallel great apes in flexible planning for tool-use and bartering

Parrots, too:

yes i have heard that they like to give you things.
now i come to think of it, i saw a foil meat pie dish on my front verandah and wondered how it got there.

they are not easy to tame. you just have to be calm and keep your distance and throw some food in front of them and then close the door.

they will keep coming back and start to warble at you, and then you can talk to them. but i can not imitate their vocal sounds obviously.

i am surprised that new zealand has magpies.
even though our countries used to be joined, it is amazing the lack of environmental similarities we share.

i was surprised that new zealand has no eucalyptus (gum) trees.
i also believe you have no marsupials.

i love kookaburras too.
they are easy to tame.
i had a family of 8 which visited me every day until the local council resumed my house to make way for a new highway.
i had to vacate my house and they paid me their assumed value of my house and etc..that was the worst day of my life.

here they are. i talked in a babyish way to them because they were little babies.

^^^^Those kookies are all just feather puppies!

common blackbird