What is this...and can I have one?

[elizabethbinary]

I was at a friend's house and saw this little FRIENDLY wild bird:

Neither my husband, myself nor my friend (who hates it and wants it gone, would you believe) know what it is. We've never seen one! But it's sweet, curious, can fly, is friendly and makes a weird child screaming noise when chased.

 

[domino7]

I have no idea really, but this one looks like it.

http://www.ozanimals.com/Bird/Asian-Dowitcher/Limnodromus/semipalmatus.html

 

[Desert Rooster]

kind of looks like this bird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Stone-curlew

 

[Illia]

Neat looking!

 

[mylittlechickpea]

We have something that looks pretty similar to that here in Hawaii, but I have no idea what either yours or mine are. But they look neat

 

[Ratzy]

'Tis a curlew. A Bush Stone Curlew to be precise

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?img...&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:15&biw=1024&bih=587

 

[elizabethbinary]

Wow how can we have never seen this before the stuff says it's common!! I really love it! That explains why it kept staying still though! It wasn't friendly, just scared, haha!

Now to find out if I'm allowed to own some!! I want some in MY yard now. No fair someone who doesn't want them gets them!

 

[gumbii]

omg, i want one too...

 

[ChickLover98]

So you can keep them? Cool! I want one! Its beautiful!

 

[Judy]

Looks more like the dowitcher than the curlew to me.. Not that I know anything about what I'm looking at, just comparing pics. Pretty, anyway, and I'd encourage it to hang around, too.

When I lived in the Fla Keys it was not uncommon for cranes and herons to get so tame they would tap on the glass to be fed, and show up at fish cleaning time. Of course the brown penguins will crowd you off the dock when it's fish cleaning time.