Can you identify this bird?

[VoR]

Genuinely curious.

Without checking, obviously.

 

[Kate]

 

[Kate]

Is it a BEE?

 

[VoR]

I think it might be some kind of HAT

 

[Beverley]

SO CUNTY OF YOU, MS VOR

 

[Kate]

Poor Eileen. They don't have them in the South East London GHETTO, you know. All you get in your garden there is feral children raised by urban foxes

 

[VoR]

To be fair I'm not just being a bitch, I'm genuinely fascinated to know whether it's just Eileen because it really is a small step above not knowing what a PIGEON is from my perspective.

 

[Kate]

He's not the only one... once on Pointless they had a grid of 12 pictures of British birds, including a ROBIN and a BLACKBIRD, and some girl went "I literally know none of them... I'm going to say BLUEBIRD"

I think our MYSTERY BIRD was in there as well, but I can't remember what score it got.

 

[Jætike]

Never seen one of those around these parts. But I'm guessing it's some posh breed of pheasant?

 

[Madíson]

I can't recall ever seeing one outside of a zoo or country park.

 

[GinAg (39)]

Is it Diana Dors?

 

[Mugatu]

Are you kidding me? That's just a flamboyant hen.

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

Has Eileen at least not watched The Animals of Farthing Wood?

 

[Kate]

Oh look I found it. 15, not 12, even worse. HOW MANY CAN YOU NAME? I got them all except the middle one. But my mum is a bird geek.

 

[VoR]

I can't recall ever seeing one outside of a zoo or country park.

I can well imagine they're not a common sight in urban London. It was more the fact that they're so common elsewhere and feature so much in British culture - Animals of Farthing Wood, Danny the Champion of the World, as the name of countless pubs etc.

In any case they're everywhere in more rural areas. Especially dead in the road, given they're so spectacularly stupid.

 

[GinAg (39)]

I did check and I was right.

What is this in aid of?

 

[VoR]

I did check and I was right.

What is this in aid of?

Eileen baffled by pheasant (on Facebook)

 

[GinAg (39)]

I assume there's a few pheasants in Kent.

 

[big ron]

Not only can I identify one, I've beaten one with a stick.

 

[COB]

I'd be able to make a decent guess at what it was, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one in real life hence why I lumped myself in the second option.

 

[Kate]

I imagine most of us have eaten a few as well.

 

[Eileen]

 

[jivafox]

I'd love to know how he'd have reacted to a HERON

 

[Kate]

It's a PTERODACTYL

Actually I see herons in the Thames all the time.

 

[Eileen]

Struggling with this a LOT. Is #1 a blackbird then? I can tell it's not a crow from the beak. 2 is a blue tit, 9 is a magpie, 11 is a pheasant, 12 is a robin. That's about it for me.

 

[Kate]

Yes love the black one is a blackbird.

 

[Eileen]

Yes love the black one is a blackbird.

Did I get the others correct?

 

[Kate]

Yes!

 

[ButterTart]

They're fucking everywhere around my parents' house. You can't drive two minutes without twenty of them flinging themselves under your wheels.

 

[GinAg (39)]

I have of course eaten, tasted great - a little too bony however.

 

[Zu]

Is it a BEE?

 

[lolly]

I was AGOG to see frozen pheasant in Aldi last week. Together with fresh sea bass and monkfish. Whatever next?

 

[GinAg (39)]

Is it a BEE?

It's a SMALL SHOE.

 

[big ron]

Where did outside the M25 Eilleen profess to not know a pheasant from a game hen? I appear to have missed something.

 

[VoR]

On Facebook.

 

[big ron]

HA

 

[Indie]

Eileen is a p(h)easant.

 

[Lucille]

Doesn't it look QUEER.

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

Like a poor man's peacock

 

[Penelope]

Like a poor man's peacock

Which is in turn basically just a FASHIONABLE CHICKEN