Happy Holidays to all from sunny Lima, Peru. Please forgive my crossposting to various lists.
Which is the Ultimate bird of the world? The one bird that every birder should try to see no matter what? This question is a take on Huffington post’s recent contest “The Ultimate place to see before you die
As it turned out, the concept was a bit too large to simply choose one bird within the Facebook concept. So I decided to make it a world cup type tornament, where the facebook vote simply would chose the 16 contestants to compete for the title “THE BEST BIRD OF THE WORLD
I think it will be lots of fun. Check out the link
These are the top 15 right now.
Marvelous Spatuletail Spoon-billed Sandpiper Harpy Eagle Resplendent Quetzal Shoebill Wandering Albatross Snowy Owl Ivory Gull Inca Tern Common Potoo Kakapo Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise Emperor Penguin Long-whiskered Owlet Ivory-billed Woodpecker
And then follows a number of species on shared 16th place.
Saludos
Gunnar ===============================
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au
http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Vote on Facebook…
http://www.facebook.com/questions/266857723363842/
Gunnar
Peter,
If it should be anything like the Huffington Post contest it should be the real thing at its natural place of occurence. Machu Picchu needs to be experienced for real in Peru, not at a Museum exhibition or a Disneyland or Las Vegas copy (if there was one).
The ultimate bird in the world in its habitat (preferably safely safeguarded for the future).
Please make your votes urgently as we need to define the 16 best birds very shortly.
Gunnar
Well, the issue is whether it is a ubiquitous feral like the Rock Pigeon, that you inevitably come across, or a widespread vagrant that you might come across or might travel to see if you were a desperate twitcher. If it is the latter, I guess House Crows might fit the bill …
===============================
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
http://birding-aus.org ===============================
They look fairly similar, don’t they? The greyish ones with the bars, I mean, not the white fantails, etc.
Does this mean that context needs to be taken into account when one nominates a best or worst bird to see? I assume no one who has nominated a best bird so far meant it would be ok to see it in captivity. Is it “best” to see it in it’s natural environment? Or is it even better to see one in some weird place where it’s an extreme novelty, e.g. an Emperor Penguin in Queensland, or a Common Mynah in Antarctica?
I’d like to suggest that it might be pretty cool to see something I consider fairly ordinary like a Red-necked Stint sitting on a nest in Siberia, rather than on a beach in Victoria.
Peter Shute
________________________________ Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2011 9:47 AM
While real Rock Pigeon Columba livia in its original habitat is a cool bird, I would suggest its human-made mutant, the Feral Pigeon, as the “worst bird in the world to see”
Nikolas
While real Rock Pigeon Columba livia in its original habitat is a cool bird, I would suggest its human-made mutant, the Feral Pigeon, as the “worst bird in the world to see” Nikolas
If there’s a best bird in the world to see, is there a worst bird in the world to see? Is there a bird one just shouldn’t bother with?
Peter Shute
===============================
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Oh, and I could do with photos of the top birds to illustrate the blogpost on Saturday
Please let me know if you have good photos of any of the birds on the list on Facebook.
hi all some great birds there —BUT wrybill surely has to be top of the list!! phil hammond