Britain's National Bird

[Saddle bum]

The Pheasant, I eat enough of them....................

 

[Cyclist33]

You have to love a birder. I went puffin having fond memories of seeing them on Lundy island as a school boy

How can a puffin be our national bird, they're hardly ubiquitous.

 

[Cyclist33]

It's got to be the curlew. My favourite bird.

What has that got to do with us? According to RSPB website it doesn't even reside in most of England and only summers in the top half.

 

[Cyclist33]

I don't care about us. It's me wot counts.

Form your own nation then, then you can have the curlew as your emblem.

 

[Cyclist33]

Apparently, we need one.

The guy (David Lindon) who's organising it is clearly a Viz fan, as this quote hilariously demonstrates:

“I feel embarrassed as someone who lives in the United Kingdom that we don’t have a national bird. The US has had one since 1776, while places like Sweden, Latvia, Bhutan, Jamaica, Mexico all have one and we haven’t. We’re supposed to be the national leaders when it comes to being animal lovers. It’s high time we put our money where our mouths are."

@User14044 must be devastated by the lack of egrets as an option.

My vote went to the puffin.

What a pile of shite. According to the first paragraph of the website, we do have a national bird anyway, so what's the big furore?

 

[winjim]

I listened to the Today programme for about 15 minutes once. I felt like I was being lobotomised so haven't bothered with it since.

They actually discussed this concept

Seriously.

 

[BigAl68]

How can a puffin be our national bird, they're hardly ubiquitous.

Well I haven't seen a barn owl in years either. Hear enough of them or their cousins in the morning when cycling through the woods but they may be curlews as I ain't seen one of those either.

 

[Fnaar]

I vote Curlew too.

Miss Goodbody would probably go for tits

 

[Chromatic]

I vote Curlew too.

Miss Goodbody would probably go for tits

She would go for a male chicken, surely?

 

[Fnaar]

She would go for a male chicken, surely?

No, she would just choke it.

 

[AndyRM]

What a pile of shite. According to the first paragraph of the website, we do have a national bird anyway, so what's the big furore?

Is there a furore? I saw it briefly mentioned on Sky news earlier but I've not seen anything else about it, apart from this thread I suppose.

I suppose the dude is really trying to raise awareness about birds or something? Are any of the top ten endangered?

He's made a hash of the website in any case, I've voted for 4 different birds now.

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

Turtle dove. Only ever seen one once about 3-4 years ago. He/She looked very lonely!

At least I think it was a turtle dove; either that or a common dove wearing a swanky overcoat.

 

[biggs682]

i thought it was Samantha Fox

 

[BrumJim]

The cyclists favourite has to be the Heron. They seem to interact with us faster tow-path users.

 

[Tim Hall]

Surely it has to be the barn owl. It is found not only across the Island but in many books, novels and movies. And wise as.

That's just PR. See those giant owly eyes? They take up useful space in the head where a brain could go. Owls are as thick as pigsh!t. (Or so I was told by an owl wrangler)