Ceaselessly toiling in the profundities of my " attic/office/tip" in my attempt to bring some sort of order out of chaos, I continue to find things I haven't clapped eyes on for years ... and one of them is this magnificent book .. That's the front cover ... but it wraps round the back as well .... this is the "round the back" bit which overlaps with the front bit and the back bit a bit .. ......and here's the actual back bit that backs onto that middle bit a bit. So ...obviously, my idea was to set you the task of identifying as many of those birds as you can ... and the other creatures if you like. After all, you've got nowt else to do on the last day of the year. And the decade. And you will find more similarly crowded pictures inside ... 703 creatures in all ... spread over a whole load of beautifully executed plates. As you can see on the front bit, it was linked to a competition as well ... which unfortunately for us latecomers, finished way back in 1995. But never mind ... it's a beautiful book and well worth a look. I suppose I should finish the year with some sort of bird-related song .... I've just looked back to what I wrote on this day last year ... and here it is, as a special bonus ... It's dead simple this one ... here's 20 birds .... But ... one little blighter is not actually a bird ... it's a fake. A downright, hornswoggling , honest-to-goodness fake. Created (I like the sound of that) by devious me ! And your task is to sort out which one it is. I was very tempted to list them in order of preposterousness ! Maybe I have ~ here they are .... [a] Striped Wood-Haunter [b] Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper [c] Apostle-Bird [d] Anomalous Bishop [e] Violet-Eared Cordon-Bleu [f] Equivocal Babbler [g] Bare-Faced Go-Away Bird [h] Stitchbird [i] Mao [j] Rusty-Breasted Nunlet [k] Shiny-Thighed Scrub Pootoo [l] Grey Treepie [m] Glowing Puffleg [n] Princely Kingfisher [o] Starchy [p] Uniform Crake [q] Snowcap [r] Empress Brilliant [s] Leaf-love [t] Happy Wren Don't you just wish you had seen some of those ? I know I do. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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