Lists, Terminology

Top 7 Beautiful Birds

June 26, 2025 by Peter No Comments

We had scary names, we had onomatopoeic names – time for beautiful names. Here are 7 beautiful birds – if we believe their names. The featured imaged isn’t beautiful, it’s splendid. The Splendid Glossy Starling is by Torwall (CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons).

1. Beautiful Firetail

Photograph by JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/), CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

2. Beautiful Fruit Dove

Photograph by Arjan Haverkamp, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

3. Beautiful Jay

Photograph by Gary T. Leavens, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

4. Beautiful Sibia

Photograph by Dibyendu Ash, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

5. Beautiful Nuthatch

Photograph by Thibaud Aronson (iNaturalist user thibaudaronson), CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

6. Beautiful Sunbird

Photograph by Hobbyfotowiki, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

7. Beautiful Francolin aka Black Francolin

Photograph from the 10000birds.com archive

 

Written by Peter
Peter Penning is a sustainability management consultant who spends many weeks abroad away from his homes in The Netherlands (work) and Portugal (holidays). Although work distracts him regularly from the observation of birds, he has managed to see a great many species regardless. He firmly believes in the necessity of birders to contribute to conservation. He passively supports BirdLife in the Netherlands and South Africa and actively in Portugal as treasurer of SPEA – Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves. Peter likes to meet people and have good after-birding lunches which has seriously hampered his ability to build up a truly impressive life list. Somehow, he doesn’t care.