Inspirations for developing new series

I was out most of the last week with a multi-day migraine so I had lots of time to think.  And since I'm really, really close to having the whole studio unpacked and set up, I started thinking about what kind of bird series I want to do this year.

My initial thought was to use my photos but since I just got a new camera there are some issues with setting up the process of sorting, moving and keywording the new pics so that they fit in with the old pics.  And I'm only partway moving all my photos into the cloud so big gnarly issue there.

I went back through my ideas & inspiration notebook and checked my wishlist on Amazon.  On my wishlist was a very expensive book about extinct birds which is now 2/3rds of the price it was originally. Excellent!  Put that into my cart.

Next, I thought about researching endangered species of birds so the googling began.  There are at least 1200 (out of the 10,000 species of birds) that are endangered and most of the top 100 were not very colorful.  With the notable exception of the Juan Fernandez Firecrown.  The males are orange with a fiery crown but the females are teal which originally led people to believe they were 2 different species.   Isn't she a beauty?

 Photo by Fabrice Schmitt, from abcbirds.org

Further googling led to this list of endangered hummingbirds.  There are 30some endangered hummingbirds which could be a series all by itself.  I also found the Washington State list here.  That is also possibly a whole series of its own.  So I'm narrowing it down and I'm excited by the idea.  I just need to wait for my book order to arrive and make a decision.  I like all of these ideas so I think I might end up listing 6 ideas so I can just roll a die to pick one.  Or I could do a poll.  Which idea do you like best?