The Meesh Zone

Meesh. 29. They/Them. Birds, nature, cello, drawing, Doctor Who, Borderlands, Destiny, Battleborn, The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, & others. Steam: TL_Kasteron. Art blog @ timetravelingart

[best-bird-tournament]

Honeyeater (Meliphagidae) family - round 2

Which is the best bird?

Micronesian myzomela

Noisy miner

New Holland honeyeater

Tui

Yellow-browed melidectes

Voting ended onDec 18, 2025

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Honeyeater (Meliphagidae) family - round 1, section 3

Which is the best bird?

Pied honeyeater

Tui

Tawny-crowned honeyeater

Plain honeyeater

Brown-backed honeyeater

Regent honeyeater

Eastern spinebill

Lewin's honeyeater

Black-chinned honeyeater

New Zealand bellbird

Banded honeyeater

Voting ended onDec 11, 2025

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Tit (Paridae) family - round 1, section 2

Which is the best bird?

Ground tit

Chestnut-bellied tit

Tufted titmouse

Coal tit

Sultan tit

Crested tit

Elegant tit

Voting ended onNov 15, 2025

[garlic-slut]

I think one of the most dangerous things we can do is justify why we should treat marginalized people well. “Gay people aren’t just interested in sex” “people who use welfare often work multiple jobs” “some people are fat because of a health issue” I actually don’t care about any of these things. We shouldn’t be treating people inhumanly regardless, and that’s what we’re fighting for.

[best-bird-tournament]

Tribe Furnariini horneros and allies

Which is the best bird?

Streaked tuftedcheek

Bolivian earthcreeper

Patagonian forest earthcreeper

White-bellied cinclodes

Crested hornero

Rusty-winged barbtail

Striated earthcreeper

Sharp-tailed streamcreeper

Wren-like rushbird

Curve-billed reedhaunter

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

[best-bird-tournament]

Tribe Tetraonini grouse

Which is the best bird?

Ocellated turkey

Sooty grouse

Western capercaillie

Greater sage-grouse

Greater prairie chicken

Black grouse

Willow ptarmigan

Ruffed grouse

Spruce grouse

Siberian grouse

Koklass pheasant

Hazel grouse

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

[best-bird-tournament]

Non-honeycreeper Carduelinae - section 3

Which is the best bird?

Trumpeter finch

Eurasian bullfinch

Dark-breasted rosefinch

Japanese grosbeak

Collared grosbeak

Desert finch

Evening grosbeak

Arabian golden-winged grosbeak

Redpoll

Voting ended onSep 8, 2025

*this subfamily is quite large and contains one tribe, so the remaining genera/species will be narrowed down during tribe-level polls

[best-bird-tournament]

Tribe Ptilinopini fruit doves & imperial pigeons

Which is the best bird?

White-eared brown dove

Silver-tipped imperial pigeon

Wompoo fruit dove

Rose-crowned fruit dove

Golden dove

Madagascar blue pigeon

Cloven-feathered dove

Kereru/New Zealand pigeon

Topknot pigeon

Sombre pigeon

Papuan mountain pigeon

Voting ended onSep 5, 2025

[mossworm]

[infectiouspiss]

marauders/harry potter fans who "don't agree with jk rowling" are like if people loved the leopard mascot for the leopards eating peoples faces party so they wore all the merch and drew art of the mascot and talked about the leopard mascot all the time but don't worry! they don't support the leopards eating peoples faces party! they're just completely indistinguishable from people who do because they both love the leopard mascot and make loving the leopard mascot 99% of their personality, "why do people feel unsafe around me when i very clearly don't support the leopards eating peoples faces party?" says the person in the leopards eating peoples faces party merch (don't worry they bought it second hand so the leopards eating peoples faces party don't get any money from them)

[best-bird-tournament]

Godwit (Limosa) runoff

Which is the best bird?

Bar-tailed godwit

Hudsonian godwit

Marbled godwit

Voting ended onAug 28, 2025

Propaganda:

Bar-tailed Godwit propaganda:

A juvenile bar-tailed godwit named B6 set the world record for longest non-stop flight of any animal, flying for 11 days straight across 8,425 miles from Alaska to Tasmania! (Source: USGS)

[best-bird-tournament]

Hypotaenidia rail runoff

Which is the best bird?

Guam rail

Buff-banded rail

Okinawa rail

Voting ended onAug 28, 2025

Propaganda:

Propaganda for Guam Rail:

They're only the second bird species to go from extinct in the wild to critically endangered. They're called Ko'ko' in Chamorro (language of the indigenous people of Guam).

(Source: my friend who works in Guam)

[best-bird-tournament]

Passerina bunting runoff

Which is the best bird?

Rose-bellied bunting

Painted bunting

Voting ended onAug 23, 2025

[time-traveling-cellist]

Say it with me, folks:

Telling people to touch grass is not ableist

[best-bird-tournament]

Charadrius plover runoff

Which is the best bird?

Killdeer

Piping plover

Little-ringed plover

Voting ended onAug 11, 2025

Propaganda:

Propaganda for Piping Plover

Little guys! Absolutely the most shaped bird you'll ever see. They give me so much cuteness aggression

2. These adorable shorebirds are little fighters! Their Great Lakes population is currently listed as Endangered, but over the last several years have begun to return to some historical beaches (including around Chicago) thanks to help from Conservation workers.

killdeer propaganda: best mothers on earth; pretend to break their wings if you get too close to their babies so you'll go after mama instead. extremely cute. stackable. great song. coolest name of any bird + funniest 4 letter code imaginable (KILL)

killdeer are awesome!!!!! theyre literally cute...

[best-bird-tournament]

Eider (Somateria) runoff

Which is the best bird?

King eider

Spectacled eider

Voting ended onAug 11, 2025

Propaganda:

King eider propaganda:

makes a really funny ooooOoooOOOOooo sound like a muppet. Look it up

[mod looked it up]

Propaganda for the spectacled eider (info from Wikipedia and the Audubon Society):

Very cute face, very pretty patterns, males have "goggles" and green heads, females have cool striped pattern; green eggs, that's cool; they're believed to be able to stay submerged longer than most diving ducks; most elusive of the eiders; spends their winters in the Bering Sea in areas so remote from humans, we didn't know where they went until 1995 with the help of satellites;

Also their call sounds very quiet and polite, I love it

Spectacled Eider / Somateria fischeri photo call and song

Spectacled Eider / Somateria fischeri bird sounds free

(Specifically track 3)

[best-bird-tournament]

Typical merganser (Mergus) runoff

Which is the best bird?

Common merganser

Scaly-sided merganser

Voting ended onAug 11, 2025