Talk:List of national birds
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Hi, can anyone tell me if there is a national bird for East Timor?
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[edit] ridiculous
This list is useless. Without further comment the white stork is called national bird of Germany. Yes, the International Council for Bird Preservation has declared this. But this has near to zero significance for Germany. Nobody in Germany would view the stork as national bird. The concept of having a "national bird" is not even known to Germans. And if you would force them to answer the question "What is your national bird?" they would most likely mention the Bundesadler, the federal eagle 
, not the stork. --::Slomox:: >< 00:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
- Quick question ... is there a source for a master list of birds that the ICBP (now BirdLife International) has deemed to be "National Birds"? Honestly, I don't imagine the "national bird" question to be of interest to much anyone beyond naturalists and politicians (I'll bet 90% of any given nation's population doesn't care!), but we have to support or debunk all of this somehow seeing as we're Wikipedia and we're supposed to be as infallible as possible. I wish I had the time to get cracking on fixing this list -- I'm starting to regret ever working on it. Good luck, though, and thanks for the added info. -- Miwa * talk * contribs ^_^ 22:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
- PS> Per the German Embassy [1] I've removed Germany from this list. -- Miwa * talk * contribs ^_^ 22:49, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
This list needs cleaning. Adding unofficial entries is POV. Unofficial entries need removing for discussion. Ian Cairns 10:52, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
- I've changed cleanup to unsourced. The cited website is not an international agency, nor does it cite its sources - so we only have one website as a source. Ian Cairns 12:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Solution perhaps
Start from scratch and consider the camacdonald list to be pure buncombe. Well, I'd love to, but in the meantime, we have a wiki to fix, right?
In any case, I'm having problems with contradictory information. Care to help me untangle this?
The pelican is the national bird of Barbados and appears on the Barbados Coat of Arms supporting the left side of The Golden Shield. - [2] Barbados has no national bird - [3]
Cheers! -- Miwa * talk * contribs ^_^ 22:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sections and Subsections
The page could also help from adding of sections or subsections, and maybe even several tables, like on other "national symbols" pages, as in splitting them up by region or continent. It would at least make it easier to navigate than simply bullets. Irish♣Pearl 21:56, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Anguillian National Bird
As an Anguillian, I can say with 100% confidence that the Zenaida Dove (Turtle Dove as we call) it is our National Bird. However, I have no source to cite and although I'm confident in my knowledge, I still feel that in the name of being professional I should cite something... I'm not sure what I can really find online, as there isn't a whole lot out there on Anguilla's culture or history. (Most information is centered on tourist destinations and such.) Suggestions?
Seir Corall 02:22, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Switzerland - Chicken?
I've looked all over for a source for the claim of Switzerland's bird being the chicken, but so far all I can find is a lot of sources that say Switzerland has no national bird - or a few who claim the chicken in jest. I think that item should probably be removed. It's unsourced at best, and more than likely offensive to Swiss people, but I'll let people who are better researchers than myself make the call. Lurlock (talk) 17:31, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
