Saturday, May 23, 2009
Birds again
Last time I came from Dar I happened to get myself one of the bird books on sale. I always wanted to purchase one because every time I wanted to identify a bird I had just seen, I had to borrow the book of Jo or Piet. After perusing my new book, I had the idea of making my own book. There are some mistakes in the book i bought, like the place where these birds can be seen. I’ve seen so many but they are not supposed to be there like the ground hornbills and the white shouldered raven here in Ndanda, maybe they are just illusions or ghost of birds hehe. Plus the names of the same birds are easy to make. Just look at their distinguishing features like the spoonbill(spoon bill, no they don’t eat spoons) bee eaters(they eat bees) Pin tailed whydah (pintails)Golden weavers (golden and they weaves) and the common bulbul (they are common hehe). Though some are hard to comprehend like the mousebirds (are they mouse or are they birds?, they should have called them supermousebirds), the buffalo weavers ( I’ve never seen any buffaloes being weaved)widow birds (do they eat the male after mating like the blackwidows)secretary birds (they don’t look like any secretaries I knew, maybe they can be taught how to do shorthand, they eat snakes anyways). I already started to name birds which I think are not properly described by the book. I got the common garden bird (always in my garden), common tweety bird (tweets every morning but I never seen it wherever I looked. Maybe its one of those nasty crows trying hard to be cute) and the common flap a lot who looks like an eagle or hawk but flaps the wings all the time during flight. Anyways I might name my book, The Common Bird Book
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