[LAU] Looking for advice on a field recording device

Hi there, I finally want to buy a small field recording device, a zoom H* or similar, and I hope that some of you have experience with some of those devices and can give me some advice. I want to use this device to record interesting sounds wherever I am, so it should be relatively small and and fast to start recording. I also intend to record lots of quiet or relatively far away sources, I want to record bird songs rather than guitars. As far as I've seen those devices use SSDs or similar storage media, so I assume they don't make any noise on their own, right? I guess the microphone should also have a low self-noise. Any recommendations? Regards, Philipp