Thanks.
You know, I salute those who do things like bird counts, and representative species counting. I simply cannot focus in repetitive mode that long.
I am addicted to discovering stuff I haven’t seen or noticed before. I’m only now realizing that I probably am an ADHD brain that never got identified.
But diversity of OBSERVERS is what iNat handles so well, and for that I will always be grateful.
Happy observing!
But then, if one is taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip to India, then those are once-in-a-lifetime sightings. “Common” is relative to locality.
I have one species on my entire life list for India. One (1)!!!
Seven of your nine common birds are species that I would absolutely lose my mind over. Two of them are species I have seen, like, once (Great Cormorant and Black Kite), both of which I would be absolutely thrilled to see again.
Your common everyday birds are someone else’s highly sought-after prizes, no matter where you live.
Here are my top 10 birds. Only one of these is considered particularly interesting by birders where I currently live (and it was common where I used to live). I bet you would be excited to see some of these, right? (Everyone should be excited to see a Yellow-headed Blackbird, they are the best.)
Excited? I would be a lot more exited to see practically all of those birds! I mean, probably not Canada geese… I still have memories of geese chasing me all the way back to my hotel room 8 years ago. There is nothing more terrifying. But the rest, even the Mallard, are all sought after birds for me. Especially sea gulls.
I 100% agree. Also, my updated bird list is probably even more sought after… I mean, who wouldn’t go crazy over a BRONZE WINGED JACANA?! ? If you ever visit india, then I would recommend going to mysore for most birds (eg jacanas, grebes, swamphens, pelicans, etc) and to ranganathittu bird sanctuary to see river terns, egrets, more egrets, and most land birds. If you spend, like, a week there, you should get most of the birds I’ve seen. Also, the best time to go there is in November to February, particularly January if you want to see baby pelicans.
Also, since my top ten don’t contain most of my favorite birds, here’s all of them :https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?quality_grade=research&taxon_id=3&user_id=austin_ajit&verifiable=any&view=species
I never really thought about that, but it’s true!. I mean, in America mallards are basically the default duck. But I have longed to see one in real life. Common really is relative.
I live in a bird free area, like seriously. I doubted at first i even have ten birds. i mean, even one observation of wood pigeon and mallard is not from my area and coot lives a village over. collared doves, grey heron, house sparrows, buzzard and martins and swallows are pretty much it.
it is sad, really, i used to live in a place where bird feeder was surrounded by birds of many species, where it was perfectly normal to see a blackbird. this is a wasteland surrounded by fields far bigger than they need to be. a biodiversity desert.
Why are the adjectives after the nouns? It’s not a strange order to me, as I speak French and Spanish, but in Russian, adjectives normally precede nouns. On money too, it’s sto korun českých rather than sto českých korun.
it is quite old-fashioned to do so, like 19th century-ish, and you would not use it in everyday speech. money labeling and species names are the only instances where it is used.
czech biological nomenclature is the work of a single man: Jan Svatopluk Presl was a biologist, his field of study was botany, zoology, and even mineralogy. He was active member of Czech national revival. He created a lot of names and terms in biology that are still in use today, such as names of plants and animals or even chemical elements and molecules. And probably because he lived in the beginning of 19th century when this order was normal, he did it like that. And it stuck.
bit obsessed
Magpie on top…
As they should.
What’s kind of funny about this is that my number one bird has a fifth of the number of observations of my overall number one. The Meadowlark is in 9th place, overall, and the rest are odes.
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