A FAIR AND TOTALLY UNBIASED DEMOCRACY
All animals are equal,most birds are shit.
Forget rarity. Forget beauty. Forget whatever Attenborough said. This is all about character. Pigeons have grafted. Vultures provide a public service. Meanwhile some colourful prick in a rainforest has spent six million years evolving a fancy hat.
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THE OFFICIAL RECORD
Top 10 shittest birds
The ten birds currently bringing shame upon the entire class Aves.
Shittest
Bestest
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Good birds do not need iridescent plumage, a seven-foot tail or a documentary crew. Good birds get on with it.
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All animals are equal, but most birds are shit.
No colourful wankers were given preferential treatment.
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THE METHODOLOGY
There isn't one.
Since the dawn of ornithology, bird nerds have been obsessed with colourful and showy plumage. Victorian collectors, museums and Darwin all failed to answer the truly democratic question: is this bird actually any good?
As any naturalist who hasn't been infected with the plumage fetish of birding will tell you, most birds are boring. It's time to give a voice to the scavengers, pavement specialists and drab little bastards who are the true underdogs of the birding world.
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VERY SERIOUS ADMINISTRATION
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THE BIRD DIRECTORY
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