It's a "beak to beak" race between the barn owl, the blackbird, the wren and the robin as a countrywide poll to find Britain's national bird got underway last night
By Javier Espinoza
12:01AM BST 08 May 2015
It's a "beak to beak" race between the barn owl, the blackbird, the wren and the robin as a countrywide poll to find Britain's national bird got underway last night.
Preliminary results, from 160,000 online voters, indicated there might not be a clear winner and a coalition could be formed following intense backstabbing and bickering as the birds got in a flap.
“It is a close fight, they are beak to beak at the moment,” said David Lindo, a birdwatcher and the organiser of the poll, just hours before polling stations closed in roughly 200 schools across the UK and online.
Mr Lindo added that there could possibly be a coalition and there might be a struggle in power leading to "the birds debating among themselves who is going to flock with who.”
There were more than 70,000 votes last year to whittle it down to a shortlist of 10 bird species, which also included the blackbird, blue tit, hen harrier, kingfisher, puffin and red kite.
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