Favorite Fowl?

[XemaSab]

Poll question: Favorite Fowl?

Which one of the fine feathered friends rocks YOUR socks?

[usedtobesick]

1. deep fly to left field right on the line

[usedtobesick]

4. Flickers

sorry about the "Foul joke" We have a large group of flickers in our neighborhood and they are very cool to watch.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. woodpeckers

I like the red headed and the piliated, both of which are around my house. If I lived further east in Arkansas, I might be lucky enough to see the ivory billed woodpecker, which was recently rediscovered (it was thought to be extinct)-they call it the Lord God Bird, because supposedly after you see it, you say, "Lord God, what a bird!"

[HereSince1628]

3. Scissor-tailed Flycatchers are high on my all time list but

As much of my research has been on them I guess I have to admit that everyone that knows me would say gulls. I've travelled around the northern hemisphere studying their parasites.

[XemaSab]

5. I would imagine that gulls

would have some pretty intense parasites, based on my experience at the corpus christi dump.

Is that the case?

[HereSince1628]

9. Gulls don'typically t get worms from garbage...

I don't study bacteria or viruses.

Gulls mostly get their wormy parasites from natural sources.

[XemaSab]

12. I was thinking more along the lines of

ectoparasites.

Bad feather hygiene plus many, many, many other gulls in a small space plus rats and other birds seems to my ignorant mind like fleas and other bugs would really get going, like in city pigeons.

[HereSince1628]

14. Gulls have plenty of lice, even specialized for different body regions

[mike_c]

6. most of those are barely a mouthful once you dress 'em out...

...although I do have hopes for the ivory-billed woodpecker if I can ever get one in a snare....

[XemaSab]

7. Ask Tamar

for her "leftovers" so you can do a taste test.

I heard warblers are good eatin'.

And respond to my pho post, please. :-)

[intheflow]

8. Wood Duck.

I saw wood ducks actually roosting in trees once. Very weird to see ducks in trees. This sedate wood duck was hanging with the flamigos at the San Diego Zoo.

[GOPisEvil]

10. I really like the bald eagle.

Just a majestic bird, very regal.

[MercutioATC]

11. Tasty, too.

;)

[Theres-a]

13. Hummingbirds

[sniffa]

15. i've never eaten any of those

:shrug: