#bird support

Poll Info

8 brackets, 208 species. Who will be declared the favorite backyard bird of Tumblr?

Ranges were determined either using the self-report feature added to the submission box or with eBird sightings. "Cosmopolitan" is a bracket involving species of birds which were found on at least three continents, regardless of which they were submitted for. "Eurasia" are birds which seem to appear equally between Europe and Asia (majority of the continent, not just Middle East). "the Americas" includes all of the Americas, with US birds removed- granted, some Canadian or Mexican birds can show up in the US, but they're not common enough backyard birds (imo) to have been disqualified.

Polls will be a week long, and are tagged #Great Backyard Bird Off. All subsequent reblogs are tagged as #poll reblog. Be sure to block this tag if you want to avoid me spamming your dash. Any reblogs containing support for a species will be tagged #[species] support. Results will be tagged #poll results.

Please-- advocate for your favorite bird! Reblogs, tags, asks, replies- whichever way you want to support your favorite bird, it's encouraged!

I also have a Google Form for support if you'd prefer to share that way.

vvv Round 2 Participant List under the Read More vvv

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Africa (11 species)

African harrier hawk, blacksmith lapwing, cape white-eye, hadada ibis, klaas's cuckoo, grey go-away-bird (Kwevoel), nile valley sunbird, purple crested turaco, southern double-collared sunbird, southern masked weaver, white backed mousebird

the Americas (16 Species)

canada jay, southern lapwing, white bellbird, bananaquit, ruddy ground dove, blue and white swallow, hoatzin, green headed tanager, chimango, great kiskadee, sayaca tanager, masked water tyrant, austral thrush, lesson's motmot, bushy crested jay, green backed firecrown

Asia (15 species)

azure winged magpie, colombo crow, common hill mynah, mandarin duck, oriental magpie-robin, oriental pied hornbill, palau fruit dove, pallas's gull, red billed blue magpie, red junglefowl, red whiskered bulbul, whistling green pigeon, white spectacled bulbul, yellow bittern

Australia (20 species)

eastern spinebill, welcome swallow, crested pigeon, willie-wagtail, crimson rosella, splendid fairywren, superb fairywren, sulfur-crested cockatoo, magpie-lark, grey fantail, australian ringneck, laughing kookaburra, weebill, galah, pied currawong, australian magpie, bush stone curlew, tawny frogmouth, satin bowerbird, pheasant coucal

Cosmopolitan (14 species)

bohemian waxwing, canada goose, common chiffchaff, common kingfisher, common nightingale, common swift, eurasian collared dove, eurasian kestrel, european bee-eater, european starling, great crested grebe, great grey owl, rock pigeon, western barn owl

Eurasia (14 species)

carrion crow, common chaffinch, eurasian bullfinch, e. bittern, e. jay, e. magpie, e. oystercatcher, e. sparrowhawk, e. treecreeper, e. wren, great tit, hawfinch, long tailed tit, northern lapwing

Europe (9 species)

eurasian blue tit, common wood-pigeon, crested tit, eurasian blackbird, eurasian green woodpecker, european herring gull, european robin, middle spotted woodpecker, red kite

New Zealand (9 species)