Yes, I'm sure it does ... but what sort of bird is it ? And after that brain-boggler, here's more quirky questions .. [a] There's a stuffed bird in Westminster Abbey. So ..what is it ? [b] What British statesman has been photographed with a wild bird sitting on his head ? [c] Which bird saved a city from being destroyed ? [d] Which poet was killed by a bird ? [e] What bird was burned on the orders of the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University ? [f] What bird is linked to the Prince of Wales ? [g] Which emperor wrote a bird book ? [h] Which flute-player, minor poet and famous doctor who also has a statue in Gloucester Cathedral discovered that the cuckoo ejects the nestlings of its host ? [i] Which famous composer kept a Starling as a pet ? [j] Which English king has bird book dedicated to him ? [k] Which king had a paper on ornithology in a scientific journal ? There you are then ... your whole day ruined by your self-inflicted inadequacy in the "Wild World of Ornithological Trivia" ... but don't worry, nobody will know. ...and here's the sing-along-with-the-Lumineers" version ....
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