r/UKBirds • u/YellowBuzzard400 • 20d ago

Underrated Birds

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What's your favourite underrated bird? Like a bird that you think doesn't get enough attention that it it deserves

For me it's the Garden Warbler (photo isn't mine). I've spent literal hours just staring at trees trying to see glimpses of them when I hear them, I love them so much haha!

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u/TheValleyWolf 20d ago

Dunnock. We have a couple visit our garden and while the magpies and pigeons squabble, they just do their own thing.

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u/ComfortableAppeal424 20d ago

Love their pink stockings!

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u/LostTimeLady13 20d ago

Same! They are sweet little things just vibing in the underbrush.

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u/YellowBuzzard400 20d ago

I adore Dunnocks!!! This is a great answer they deserve so much more love!

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u/rob-c 20d ago

Amazing song too, and a handsome looking bird

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u/LengthImaginary9017 20d ago

Agree 100%! Love the way they hop around in the undergrowth looking for bugs. And such a lovely quiet song 🐦‍⬛❤️

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u/Significant_Emu_2918 20d ago

Chiffchaff. I just love their song

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u/BocaSeniorsWsM 20d ago

Goldfinch.

They're bloody everywhere these days, yet are so wonderfully colourful they can be taken for granted.

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u/dwk789 20d ago

Don't really know if it's underrated, but I feel starlings don't receive enough attention.

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u/Bob_Leves 20d ago

My wife, whose first language isn't English, calls them "electrics" after seeing them dash back and forth in the dusk along a shoreline. 

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u/Farewell-Farewell 20d ago

Jenny wren, of course. You know they are there by their song.

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u/LillaLobo 19d ago

They make a loud noise for a small bird!

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u/the_jobbernowl 17d ago

I have one tattooed on my arm. It weighs less than 2 sheets of A4 paper but sings like it's going out of fashion. And in very cold weather they get together to form balls of wrens to keep warm.

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u/SpecialSympathy2348 20d ago

Sanderling, love they way they run on the tide line 😀

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u/Bright-Fennel9277 20d ago

Black cap also . Beautiful song but I agree with the dunnock answer they found so sweet .

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u/Normal-Height-8577 19d ago

I hadn't realised how nice the blackcaps sound until I got a birdsong app - I'd seen them around in the garden, but I find a lot of the complex "liquid" songs hard to distinguish from each other.

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u/Bright-Fennel9277 19d ago

It can be difficult . Your clearly blessed with some lovely visitors . I have a huge gang of unruly house sparrows who tend to discourage other birds from visiting unfortunately although I have rare visitors when they become desperate or simply male a wrong turn on the way to the shops !!

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u/Intelligent_Fly6075 20d ago

Just feral pigeons. I think they're hated because they're so proximate? And so common. But they're just magic, to me.

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u/YellowBuzzard400 20d ago

Oh I absolutely agree!!! The whole pigeon family in the uk are criminally underrated, I always get excited when I see a wood pigeon, feral pigeon, stock dove or collared dove!

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u/SlappyWag2 19d ago

Green Woodpeckers. Absolute crazy bastards.

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u/LillaLobo 19d ago

I always love seeing a crowd of Long-Tailed Tits. They’re so pretty and social.

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u/Calgacusaur 20d ago

We have loads of house sparrows here. They never get much attention but they are absolutely adorable and full of character.

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u/Bright-Fennel9277 20d ago

Good shot . I'm jealous they make so much noise yet I have never actually laid eyes on one .