Poll Your Favorite Flying Animal

[Soheil_Esy]

A modest tribute to those little cousin earthlings who made it long before us in fulfilling their ancestors' dream to conquer one day the vastness of the starry night sky

Haneul Daramjui or Momanga

A rare squirrel is pictured after coming out of a man-made nest in a tree on Mount Songni in central South Korea on April 7, 2015, in this undated photo released by the office of Mount Songni National Park on April 7, 2015. The endangered animal, designated as Natural Monument No. 328, is named "haneul daramjui," or "sky squirrel." (Yonhap)

 

[Ravenous]

Cute little feller.

Flying mammals? Mine would be the pipistrelle bat, very common here in the UK. They always remind me of summer evenings...

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_pipistrelle"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_pipistrelle[/ame]

 

[boogabooga]

Does it have to be an extant species?
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus"]Quetzalcoatlus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[Urwumpe]

Kingfisher

 

[Ravenous]

Kingfishers are great - and not easy to get close to!

Also from the birds, how about the humble but irresistably cute budgie?

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgerigar"]Budgerigar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[Urwumpe]

Kingfishers are great - and not easy to get close to!

Its very easy actually, if you live near a habitat of them. They are very shy, but they also need to eat. I admit, its easier to hear them then to see them, if you are just walking around... but if you have the time to just sit and wait for some minutes, you can also see them fly by or sit on a branch.

 

[RisingFury]

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus"]Quetzalcoatlus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

They must have been quite the sight.

 

[TMac3000]

XR-5 Vanguard--oh, wait...does it have to be organic?

 

[Donamy]

Kingfisher

A Kingfisher ate about $1,000 dollars of my neighbors Koi, from his fish pond.

 

[Urwumpe]

A Kingfisher ate about $1,000 dollars of my neighbors Koi, from his fish pond.

Aren't Kois pretty huge fish? :blink:

 

[Donamy]

The more expensive ones are.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

I have to say this would bee it...

Not only because they are the world's major pollinators, and live in a society of sorts with "specializations", but are also the makers of the only substance, as far as I know, that can arrest the onset of the common cold; propolis. Now, I am not a great believer in homeopathy and stuff, but at the first symptoms of the cold virus taking hold, a dose of it not only alleviates them, but stops its progress dead. I have proven it to myself enough times now not to listen to any counter argument from useless "cold cure" pharmaceutical producers or doubters.

As far as avians go, this is the one. Frigate or Man 'o War bird. Unique wing plan view, and wonderful aerial acrobats. I often get to see them, and delight in watching them harass a booby into giving up its catch, albeit a bit sorry for the booby's plight with this relentless pirate tenaciously after them...

 

[Star Voyager]

My favorite:

 

[Matias Saibene]

Speaking of epic photos...

It is not my picture, is Wikipedia. But in my house always flying (and feeding) on lantana (Lantana camara).

And flying birds, a little bigger, I love [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_swallow"]Hirundo rustica[/ame]. They are awesome, flying with wings deployed at low speed, and thrown (with folded wings) at high speeds, such as aerial acrobats.
I had the opportunity to see their development cycle in my house, since they built their nest nearby.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

:hmm: Well, there were votes for Pterodactyloids - which were "once upon a time" - so how about this one? Obviously, it is disqualified as yet for anyone's favorite, as it cannot fly, but it might well do so, soon - speaking in an evolutionary time-frame, of course...

Got to give it points for trying. Keep at it Rays!

:10sign:

 

[Andy44]

But seriously, budgies/parakeets are the most likable to me.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

 

[Spacethingy]

Kestrels, aka. Steadycam on wings. I just don't get how they pick a point in space, place their head in it, and let their body move around their head to keep it there:

By the way, that momanga is possibly one of the cutest things I've ever seen...

 

[Evil_Onyx]

 

[ISProgram]

What about a flying weasel?

I also like flying squirrels...