Mockingducks and grackles. I love their music.

the eastern bluebird is another favorite for their sweet sounds and lovely looks.

i do love the wood thrush for their song, a most beautiful and haunting one.

as a former wildlife rehabilitator, i got in a nest of blue jays and raised them to release stage. forever i will be indebted to these birds for showing me the corvid familys intelligence.

I particularly like to watch hummingbirds.

I am partial to corvids first of all, because of their intelligence and problem solving abilities, and after that the raptors. There is a flock of crows I ride past almost daily. For the first few days they fled at my approach, now they just hang out and caw at me. Clearly they recognize me and understand I am no threat.

Can't really say overall except one bird.... the lowly humble Inca dove { columbina inca } from my home state.. They have the most beautiful, haunting coo pattern... I know it's illegal but have always wanted one or a pair. I can dream... I miss the sound of them so much.
In our area I do much enjoy the inordinate amount of hawks in the neighborhood. They're fantastic. Once caught a "kettle" in the fall while playing badminton in the back yard years ago. It was quite a sight, seeing 30+ birds hovering overhead in a swirl of grandeur.

Magpies, they don't come west of the Cascades so I rarely see them. Got this picture of a barred owl in the woods near where I live, hear them often but rarely see them.

The harpy eagle, crows and liar birds

I like most birds, but I am not a fan of mocking birds or cardinals. Mocking birds because I lived near one for a while. It always sang at night just as I would get comfortable with one of its melodies it would change the tune making it hard to get to sleep.

Cardinals are noisy little critters and I had one terrorize the windows on my house over a couple of weeks. It kept on crashing into the windows...I went outside with a broom and then a hose trying to scare it away, but not such luck...it finally did stop, I think it must have based its brains out against the one of the windows. Mad little fucker.

I chose them all. I love all birds except vultures. Those are some ugly creatures.

Whichever bird I'm currently looking at - I live in the moment. I have stories about chickens, geese, crows, ravens, rock doves, eagles, falcons, robins, water fowl, peacocks, parakeets, parrots and on and on.

I often feel the same regarding the question, "what’s your favorite apple?" ‘The last one I ate!’ Favorite bird, the last one having peacefully drank from my birdbath as I watched..

Had to get serious once, when my daughters’ asked, so I decided the (American) Robin (helped having a daughter with the same name, though she was named after Madalyn Murray O’Hair’s Granddaughter/ adpt. Daughter). Though nearly everywhere, Robin’s have something I love about every bird

I'm not a fan of keeping them in captivity, but for intelligence, plumage, and sociability; the parrot species are the coolest.