In the UK, the one bird I love overall for its song is the blackbird. Best bit of the dawn chorus and the first one of the year lets me know Spring/Summer is on the way.
I think everyone in the UK thinks fondly of robins, and has negative opinions of pigeons. I did too, until I found out that they are Rock Doves that swapped nesting in cliffs by the sea for tall buildings in towns. It's not their fault they're successful at it.
Male pheasants are handsome creatures too, but the most stupidly suicidal birds I have ever seen near to roads.
A murmuation of starlings is hard to beat as well.
Not just that: “City pigeons” are feral descendants of formerly domesticated rock doves. That’s why they are so comfortable around humans, in the way that usually only livestock or pet animals are, and actively seek us and our settlements out.
We just got tired of them, and then largely forgot about all of that.
I think everyone in the UK thinks fondly of robins, and has negative opinions of pigeons. I did too, until I found out that they are Rock Doves that swapped nesting in cliffs by the sea for tall buildings in towns. It's not their fault they're successful at it.
Male pheasants are handsome creatures too, but the most stupidly suicidal birds I have ever seen near to roads.
A murmuation of starlings is hard to beat as well.