The eagle is by far the most popular bird on coins, but my personal favorite bird is the mockingbird. It the state bird for 5 American states. It is, of course, a great song bird, but I like its tough, pugnacious and brave nature. I have had mockingbirds dive bomb me several times, and they attack domestic cats. Others favorite of mine are blue jays and cardinals. Cardinals are very beautiful birds, but they are hard to get close to for very long. They are very wary of people. I like bird watching almost as much as coin collecting.
Gold crest, probably. Its a funny bird, lives in Finland, and we call it "Hippiäinen"
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(weirdly enough, its basically "hippie-äinen", I do not know what äinen is in Finnish, but its a thing that its after many surnames. It is like the Japanese senpai and chan, used more like the chan. It is hard to explain, but it basically means "small and cute". The Finnish language is weird. It can also mean like "kakkiainen" (what a bad example) that means "poopie". Veery hard to explain.)
So yeah, I go with that ball shaped bird, Hippiäinen.
My favourite British bird is probably the Goldfinch. There is nothing better than a group
of these. No wonder the correct group term is a "charm" of Goldfinches. On a worldwide basis
I love Hummingbirds [New World] and Sunbirds [Old World], they are like small, flying jewels.
Collect what you like and like what you collect.
Remember you are only the custodian of you collection, its only yours for your lifetime.
Please do not forget the Robin that is on the reverse of the later versions of the United Kingdom farthing.
This is especially true now as a lot of Christmas cards I have received seem to have it on them too.
I would like to think that most birds are shown on a coin somewhere. Even the Dodo gets on a few.
Whoops! Sorry for my error. Of course it is a wren. I like that bird too, but do not see it very often. See a Robin nearly every day.
Again, sorry for my error. I will try harder next time.
I did get the Dodo right, I think.
Never been able to spot a dodo myself ... so I can't be sure. Even specialists are not completely sure what they looked like exactly. Probably not as fat as they are normally depicted at least.
I'm sure a lot of birds appear on coins, but as there are so many (similar) species I doubt all of them are found on coins (some species can hardly be distinguished in hand, let alone on a coin). I'll let you know when my animal collection is completed :-)
Just call me Bram
No new swaps for the moment, still too many half-ongoing swaps to clean up!
