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Been doing a bit of long overdue taxonomy catch-up. I've got my head around divers no longer being at the front of the bird book, but cuckoos between bustards and sandgrouse is going to take a bit of getting used to. #UKbirding

Want to know which bird species @greeneindy.bsky.social would choose to peck him to death? Or which bird has one parent go to Sainsbury’s Local while the other does a big shop? Then listen here!

Yes! Can’t wait!

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I’d planned to do many more of these (still might do my Swift and Spoonbill) but, in a strange art imitating life way, they are like a struggling band failing to get any traction. #dontquitthedayjob

As someone who once produced plectrums based on Puffins as members of Kiss, I thought that was as niche as I’d get. Then I started Bird of the Week, ‘reviewing’ birds as if they were albums in a music magazine…

Hope you enjoy it! The podcast that is, not the thoughts of being pecked to death!

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Secondly, ‘Troglodyte’ by Viagra Boys. It has nothing to do with Wrens, though….! youtu.be/iW4Gdsnr2Bg?...

A couple of things we mentioned during the podcast…
Firstly, Will’s summer pop banger ‘Terns’ ! This years ‘Espresso’ surely? bsky.app/profile/will...

This is a fantastic piece of research: @yolobirder.bsky.social has combed the “Tintin” albums and come up with identifications for the birds Hergé drew - where they appear, and what they are! It’s a great work of reference, and highly recommended!

That makes sense!
Thanks for the info (and share of my daft blog!)

I missed that discussion! 😂

Hope you like my blogs. I’m still waiting for the scientific journals or publishers to come knocking!!

Want to know which bird species @greeneindy.bsky.social would choose to peck him to death? Or which bird has one parent go to Sainsbury’s Local while the other does a big shop? Then listen here!

Getting It Right Everyone has their own. “How did he get from Mile End to Chelsea in five minutes?” “When’s this set again? 1952? That model didn’t come in until 1963.” “Lemon drizzle cake in 1938? I don’t think so!”…

It is perfect telly and you are right about MC. And he’s a lovely man to boot. @levparikian.bsky.social wrote a blog about the incidental bird sounds on the show that you might like: goldengrenades.com/getting-it-r...

So good! He’s definitely a Detectorists fan!

Bless ya Lev! Hope all is good with you :)

No way!

Good shout!

Me too! 🙂

I could tell from reading the book that you would be a Detectorists fan too!

Some people are never happy! 😜
A few people have said similar things, so one day maybe there’ll be a Part 3!

Thoroughly enjoying ‘The Cuckoo’s Lea’ by @drmjwarren.bsky.social, exploring England and its past through the places named after the birds that used to be there. It reminds me of the falconers whistle scene in Detectorists, with its ghostly echoes of the past. Lovely stuff.

6) The Green Woodpecker frame in Castafiore is a banger. Just for fun? Or a bit of a foreshadow for the Magpie?

7) Really disappointing he lost his opportunity in 714. South Pacific island... no fun birds? Just aliens? C'mon!

Anyway, great read. Thanks for putting the work in! Lot of fun. Cheers

a chaotic chase scene thru a small French town on the southside of Lake Geneva. I know this based on the WWI statue

3) 327 birds in Black Island! That's like 2001 Space Odyssey evolution

4) You telling me the famous guano gulls of Prisoners are not native to Peru? Boo

5) On Calculus, Hergé used to vacation on Lake Geneva, so got a lot of detail right. Including the rooster on the French WWI statue

Eih bennet eih bravet of course

Really fun! Hilarious comments. You r right - birds are surprisingly sparse. Some notes off top of my head

1) First read Congo in French (not translated yet) and I still remember the Parrot's hysterical "Sauve qui peut!"

2) Ottokar's Scepter's pelican could have gotten an honorable mention phaps?

7) 714 is so disappointing on the birds front, particularly as he had already dabbled by this point. Maybe he was just too busy 🤷‍♂️

4) For my own sanity I had to make a compromise on the gulls! I was guessing too much. But a Peruvian Guano Gull subspecies of Hergé’s Gull is a shout.

Thanks so much for this! So chuffed you enjoyed it! I
The sceptre was lumped in with the other artwork depictions of birds I’m afraid, but you are right, a mention would not have gone amiss!

This will be great so take your kids along! bsky.app/profile/will...