My friend just made me feel weird for asking so now i gotta know.
If you do have a favorite bird please please tell me in the tags, i want to see some Birds!!
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Round 1, Match 1 - Shoebill vs. Zone-Tailed Hawk
All propaganda is welcome in replies/reblogs!
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FINAL POLL: HIPSTER BIRD BRACKET
Tidbits of info, if you need help deciding:
Groove-billed Ani has flown in on the power of friendship and communal child-rearing- as well as the power of being "just a little guy". They're clumsy and floppy and cute and they do raise kids in a big communal family, which is wild for cuckoos to do.
Sickle-winged Nightjar have made it this far I think based solely on the fact they are nightjar that are just a little weird in the wings department. Nothing else about them is extra weird or strange, and they're not well studied.
Purple Honeycreeper defeated the Pink Robin, a bird which I thought was unstoppable, by a best 2-of-3 run-off poll. The male is pictured here, but the female is also quite colorful and could have been the contributing factor in the win.
Oilbird has risen on its popularity of being an absolute nut of a bird: it lives in caves and echolocates, it eats fruit but finds them mostly by vision, it is the only living member of its family and order, the babies are so fat they can be used to make lanterns-- it's a lot.
Image Sources: Ani (Cameron Carver); Nightjar (Kristof Zyskowski); Honeycreeper (Mike Hudson); Oilbird (Andres Vasquez Noboa)
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tags from @itsryover
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Bird of All Time Tournament Submission
Together with your help, we will determine which bird is the Bird of all Time.
Qualifications:
-Must be an extant (living) or extinct bird species
-Must be a real bird, not a fictional bird
-Must be submitted in the form of Linnean nomenclature (Genus species). Common names will be disqualified because they are not specific and multiple species can be called the same nickname.
-Must be submitted through the official Google form.
Submissions will be open until 6/11 at 11:59 PM EST
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Bored so here’s a poll
Reblog with the specific type of bird and/or why if you want! Sorry if I didn’t include your favorite category of bird, I’m super tired rn. Though changes are the specific type of bird you’re thinking of is included in one of these categories. But if not sorry. Also sorry some of the vets girlies are just one certain type of bird, some birds had unusual wings that I wanted to make sure gkt their own spotlight.
Also for clarification, I do not care about the anatomy of this, yes the wings will let you fly with them (unless you chose ostrich), and the downsides of the wings are magically not carried over (so you won’t starve to death with hummingbird wings or anything). And the wings also come with the benefits of each wing (for example, falcon wings would make you super fast at diving, duck wings would be waterproof, and hummingbird wings would allow you to hover midair).
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are u gonna name the bird poll taxa after it closes or would u rather they remain a mystery
I will name them after it closes!!!! I promise!!!!
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Round 1, Match 31 - Great Crested Grebe vs. Northern Flicker
All propaganda is welcome in replies/reblogs!
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Warbler Showdown; Bracket 4, Poll 6
Black-cheeked Warbler (Basileuterus melanogenys)
IUCN Rating: Least Concern
Range: montane Costa Rica and Panama
Habitat: elfin forest understory, as well as montane evergreen forest and secondary forest. Also prefers "bamboo-choked ravines".
Subspecies: 3
Chestnut-capped Warbler (Basileuterus delattrii)
IUCN Rating: (not ranked)
Range: spans all of central America, from the very southern tip of Mexico to Colombia and a tiny bit of Venezuela
Habitat: dry to semi-humid deciduous forests and young second growth
Subspecies: 3
Image Sources: Black-cheeked (Guillermo Saborio Vega); Chestnut (Alfonso Auerbach)
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If you submitted "Magpie Jay" to the poll, kindly resubmit with the Linnaean nomenclature (Genus species), because "Magpie Jay" is the common name of a genus, and there are two species in this genus. This is why I asked that all submissions be in the form of Linnaean nomenclature, not common names.
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