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Unlike the United States, which has the bald eagle, France,
the rooster, and Brazil, the rufous-bellied thrush, the United
Kingdom has no official bird as its symbol.
A vote in the 1960s found the robin - he/she of the snowy
Christmas card - to be Britain's favorite oprnithological
representative. An online poll seeking to test that closes on
Thursday.
Sixty "candidates" have been whittled down to 10 - the robin,
puffin, hen harrier, red kite, mute swan, barn owl, blackbird,
blue tit, and wren.
The pecking order will be known on Friday, around the time
results from that other election appear.
(Reporting by Jeremy Gaunt)
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