Talk:List of national birds

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Hi, can anyone tell me if there is a national bird for East Timor?

[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)