Honorary mammals
The same premise as my extinct mammal list post but a little different. What are the birds, reptiles, or amphibians that you consider honorary mammals. They are not quite to the level of seeing a mammal but they are honored in a similar way. Many may include ground birds the list can be as long as you want it can be a whole essay if you want.
My list is
- Southern Ground hornbill
- Emu
- Ostrich
- All penguins
- Most crocodilians
- Komodo dragon
- Bald eagle
- My personal favorite bird red-shouldered hawk
- Double crested cormorant, one of the first birds I ever identified in North America
- Storks
I know it is mostly birds, I am still affected by the darkside of the wildlife watching. I have been trying to suppress it but it just keeps on coming back. Anyways I was curios to see other peoples lists. Hopefully somehow someway Jon doesn’t see this and I can continue to keep my mammalwatching account. With the absurd amount I have posted something about birds, thrice, I may not be lucky.
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axoxox
Been slowly being pulled more and more into the side of general naturalisting (through iNaturalist so if you want you could call it ‘inatting’ as I do indeed prioritise getting photos to post on there), can’t call myself much of a mammal-watcher in terms of seen [but I think you could hardly blame me given I live in NZ!!], but I think I would also agree with the idea of ‘smart’ and ‘rare’ things although I’m heavily biased towards just tetrapods, I’d defo put large invertebrates as ‘honorary tetrapods’ [the thrill of coming face to face with a Wetapunga really is something!]
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stevebabbs
I bet you’re the only one who puts double-crested cormorant! My attitude is I like ‘smart’ things and it doesn’t matter if it’s a bird, mammal, reptile or amphibian or come to that a species of Lepidoptera, Orthoptera or Odonata although I suspect if I did a top ten of all time they would all be mammals. A top fifty would include a lot of birds and some reptiles.