This Article is taken (edited and modified) from the following Yahoo group threads by Praveen J (paintedstork@gmail.com) and by me. Also the pictures used are taken from Google Images. Numbers are purely denoting series and not ranks i.e. within the list there are no specific ranks given.
Source:
Threads
Link 1 – http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/keralabirder/message/10
Link 2 – http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=64834
Situation 1 -
You are stuck in Island for long and you get to take only 10 species of Birds. Which ones would you like them to be?
Rule –
1. You can’t eat the Birds
Job K Joseph replies (modified for the article): -
1. A Bengal Florican – It is amazing to watch specially the gait.
2. A Brown headed stork-billed kingfisher. I like its call very much. Very sweet to ears like a music
3. A Swan for me to feed during the day.
4. A tame cockatoo to keep me company in my make-shift hut
5. A hunting falcon to give me some meals
7. A hen – Eggs are tasty
8. An ostrich - bigger eggs are tastier
9. Racket-tailed drongo - more for the price of one?( hear animal
Sounds)
10. A hummingbird - Let it contribute to pollination.
Ashwin Baundur writes -
ReplyDeleteYou said species - the Rooster and the Hen are the same. So you still get one more species. BTW The Ostrich can provide you a ride - see the latest Prince of Persia action flick ;-). The egg shell will provide you with utensils.
I suggest you add a cormorant, it will help you fish. Plus its faeces will give you guano - useful for growing food crops.
Replace the swan with a goose - you get food & down to keep you warm.
Replace a hummingbird with a prolific seabird such as a shearwater & petrel - these are muttonbirds. Let insects pollinate your flora.
The stork-billed kingfisher is nice, but a Hill Myna or a Parrot ( I recommend the Sulphur Cockatoo) makes good company.