Starting my field season this morning: Post a coin with a bird on it!

pendragon1998

This morning, I dragged myself out of bed at 4:30 to get ready for the first day of my first field season as a M.S. student. My project (total workers: 1, moi) is based around a 3-month series of bird surveys conducted across several urban to rural gradients of development intensity. I'm interested in how bird communities in residential developments change with differing levels of regional and local development intensity and with housing development age (what a mouthfull). The long and the short of it is I'm going to have a lot of 4:00 am mornings through the end of July.

In honor of my field season beginning, post a photo of your coins with birds on them. Don't limit yourselves to boring old eagles! Bonus 'points' if you can identify the species on your coin!!

Wish me luck...

Steve27

Sorry for the low quality pic, but here's a Condor (common on coins from Chile):

Silvereagle82

Here's a Guatemala 10 Quetzales
The bird is a Quetzal (Guatemala's National Bird)

Angielczyk

I think the birds in the nest are homo sapi something or other

South Africa 2 Rand 1995

Angielczyk

Sorry

But I still do not seem to have learnt how to attach photos

Ca someone please help

Harold

koincollect

Here is your picture--




I don't have my image but you have my wishes!

Teg

Good luck.

If I had to pick a favourite bird, the Australian Palm C@ckatoo has to be very high up.

This is a 1993 Australian 10 dollar Piedfort Proof.



Teg

Angielczyk

trying again

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Burks

I'm not even going to try and ID the birds, I'm clueless in that area! But here are some that I own:



Yeah it's silver bullion, but it's a great looking eagle.

WWW

pendragon1998

Well, the first morning went pretty well. I think I found a few kinks in the process that can be ironed out easily.

These coins are all great - keep them coming!



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What's this coin? Those are frigatebirds on it, a favorite of mine, and I'd like to pick one up at some point.

EDIT: I had the wrong image quoted for about 10 minutes. I corrected it (the frigatebirds are on the left)

oldshep

Here are a few - including "boring eagles"





Shep

pendragon1998

That's a really great design! What's that coin called?

BS

Angielczyk

found another i my collection Sorry I do not know what the birds are.

Harold

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rwyarmch

Udo

I only have boring eagles.

This one even has two on it:

SYRACUSIAN

I'm interested in how bird communities in residential developments change with differing levels of regional and local development intensity and with housing development age (what a mouthfull).





Now that you mention it, I remember something I've read in a newspaper a couple of weeks ago. I don't have the article in hand so I can only cite this by memory. It was referring to a species that now lives in big cities. Because of the heavy noise levels, the birds' singing, which is a way to communicate and to find an erotic partner, was so severely affected that it was now taking place at night time, instead of the day, when the city was quiet. The tempo has also changed to a much slower rhythm. Even though the article was carrying a sad message, I found the adaptation refreshing and hopeful. I hope that your surveys will lead to more optimistic conclusions. Here's a phoenix.

spoon

Congrats and good luck on your scholarly pursuits!

You'd have a prime habitat for study here in the "lovely" and booming southeast corner of Arizona. We have the dwindling, but still world famous birding attraction of the San Pedro riparian area, several mountain areas, and exponential residential growth in an area already suffering from water shortages, among other problems.


I don't have any coin photos available at the moment, so here are some of the icons I've uploaded before--more stately eagles

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Iosephus

Here's a couple of doves for you:




Good luck with your project!

Blackhawk

WillieBoyd2

Greece phoenix

Stork

A pair of Storks


A rooster:


all I had on photobucket right now, plus whatever I had uploaded before. I haven't touched my camera in months

pendragon1998

Thanks for all the great bird coins, y'all! Everyone's got such a variety of wonderful designs They definitely put a smile on my face after I got home from the first day's work. One day down, 89 to go!

I'm still wondering about the ID of the coins below (top-left and bottom). Can someone tell me what they are? Thanks!

oldshep

pendragon - The Frigate birds are on one of the coins from the Caribbean - I think Jamacia or the Bahamas - very commonly found on ebay, The other is a Hungarian eagle - beautiful coin - later I will dig mine out and look for the date and denomination.

Shep

danglen

Here are a few birds from my aviary......Bird Coins

clarkbar04