I was dead choughed to spot that number plate with AUK on it ! .... especially as AUK is the "ghost" of MANDARIN DUCK ! ...because if some of the letters blew away, AUK could be left behind. ..... that's what a "ghost" is. What's left after letters have blown away. ... but ... are there any "non-duck" UK birds that AUK is the ghost of ? [Yes] ..... because, let's face it, ducks are too easy as far as AUK is concerned ! I'll tell you one of them free of charge ..... BIMACULATED LARK And now lucky you can get up and look for all the others. No ducks mind ! If you are really truly keen, there's actually yonks of foreign ones too !. Here's Al Lewis and Sarah Howells ... "Arsonist" ..lovely stuff. Exactly 11 years ago today, I "got" a fine White-spotted Bluethroat in Sedburgh. " But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
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