Not a new subject to many but ...

Please add your own "favourites"

The classic, the Asian Koel, the gawow bird.

The Copper Smith Barbet, the bok, bok, bok or metronome bird.

I'm sure members have others that we're not aware of, yet!!

Her name was Janice..........😬

5 minutes ago, transam said:

Her name was Janice..........😬

I just knew it!!

No, not that she was Janice but the first response would be a non-feathered bird (unless Janice was your parrot!).

Mine was Dawn, perfect Essex Girl, blue eyes, blonde hair, dead heat in a Zeppelin race, sadly she was near the back when the brains were handed out.

I loved her to bits, we had 5 kids together!!

I like chickens, ducks and geese.

Ducks were always the most annoying as they poop on the patio/doorstep, and hide their eggs.

Just now, BritManToo said:

I like chickens, ducks and geese.

Rotisseried??

Their eggs are also delicious!

I like all birds except pigeons. Rats with wings. Sh!t everywhere.

Lots of red wattled lapwings where I live. I love the did-he-do-it call.

The mafia birds, mynas and their cousins the starlings. Never shut up, try to take food from smaller birds. The little striped squirrels take no sht from them though.

3 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

I like all birds except pigeons. Rats with wings. Sh!t everywhere.

We used to get wood pigeons and rabbits from our farmer neighbour in the UK.

They were pretty good (and free) except for the hard "seeds" that you had to pick out.

8 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

Lots of red wattled lapwings where I live. I love the did-he-do-it call.

I think I've heard him, when the ruddy koels and barbets shut up!!

7 minutes ago, Crossy said:

I think I've heard him, when the ruddy koels and barbets shut up!!

And can be at any hour of the night, they must be light sleepers because they nest on the ground and easily disturbed.

I'd say cockerel, outside my condo, always wakes me up 2.30-3am, interestingly there's a cockerel that goes off 2.30pm

23 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

I'd say cockerel, outside my condo, always wakes me up 2.30-3am, interestingly there's a cockerel that goes off 2.30pm

My step-son breeds fighters, of course we have to look after them coz we have space.

There were a few that triggered in the middle of the night, these were isolated and he gave them to a "friend" (possibly an ex-friend now )

I HATE these birds.

There is no more annoying bird in the world.

Off with their heads; Into the bin, with them...!!!!

Good for NOTHING beasts.

Where did they ever come from, anyway?

Certainly, Nature never created them.

Obviously, these are the worst examples of a GMO anyone ever perfected.

I would call it UN-natural selection.

We can do gene modification in various ways.

And, this organism, if you can EVEN CALL it an organism, which I doubt,

Should be exterminated from the earth.

Even worse than Thailand mosquitoes.

Doves

51 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

I'd say cockerel, outside my condo, always wakes me up 2.30-3am, interestingly there's a cockerel that goes off 2.30pm

There’s a mud dove here that does the same thing, squawking in the middle of the night.

2 hours ago, Mutt Daeng said:

Rats with wings. Sh!t everywhere.

Just like village dogs, but they aren't birds unlike sheilas.

All birds are annoying if they hang around too long after the deed is done. But if I had to choose one type... black birds are the best!

The loud ones........

The one i just got divorced from

That Koel bird , had one outside the bedroom window , drove me nuts during the night and early morning.

We get a Screech Owl every now and then , quite like him , but the Mrs hates him.

Sparrows, my house and surrounding area are infested with them, dirty squeaky little pests that kill all the other songbirds eggs and young. Spend all day giving out an irksome chittering sound as they squabble between each other, (no, not the locals)...Any suggestions apart from gassing and shooting gratefully recieved.

19 hours ago, Crossy said:

Rotisseried??

Their eggs are also delicious!

Flaming flying bats, not those ones, but the pigeons!!!

The first one definitely. There is another one, I don't know what it is, but I call it the "squeaky wheel bird" as when it used to wake me up in the mornings when I was staying in a hotel, I always used to think to myself, " I wish the staff would oil the wheel on that f*****g trolley."

As for the second video. That has answered another query. I thought that sound was a water pump at a villa on the hill behind me.

All of the bird calls are music to my ears, even roosters at 3:00 a.m.. Barking dogs are a different story, as well as the eternal screaming of chimpanzees and Tasmanian devils. Luckily, there are very few of those outside my window.

I used to hear one that loudly repetitively called " Pee Coke" but it seems to have gone extinct around here.

Have a nephew who goes by the nickname of Coke who often cursed the bird.

Maybe he killed them?

And for the humorists ....I am talking about a feathered creature.

The Koels are loud and annoying at times at our place - both day and night.

The sound of the “bouncing ball” Nightjars early in the night can get a bit tedious.

The Coppersmith Barbet sounds good to me - maybe because they are uncommon in our area.

I LOVE the sound of Hoopoes in the morning. (Not the smell of napalm) ,

On 1/5/2026 at 6:46 PM, ripstanley said:

Doves

Annoying at times but love it. Will be sad if they're gone.

The bitch that lives next door to me.

Drinks and yells all day and tries to sing at night, sounds more like a cat being castrated with a rusty blade