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A shoebill... they live in freshwater swamps in east/central Africa and are pretty rare. They are normally thought of as being a kind of stork, but I was talking about them yesterday and apparently genetic evidence shows they may be more closely related to a hammerkop.
Amazing, thanks!
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You'll understand when you're older
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I‘ve basically become a podcast recommendation algorithm in human form, but for you birdy lot, this episode on bird migration is great:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/there-and-back-again -
I used to occasionally see shoebills (hammerkops more often) on my commute past these swamps outside Kigali, Rwanda.
The marabou storks were more imposing, if rather less charming. A colleague told me "and you can't even eat them, their meat is acidic/poisonous", which must be frustrating in a country where meat is a luxury.
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Pheasants are a bit plumper and weightier, hit one a few months back and it dented the Scania I was driving.
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Pheasants are fucking idiots
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Fucking hell that's heavy. We stopped by Cromwell St while it was going on to have a nose on the way back to Worcs on a family day out, before they razed it.
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Back to bird strikes; if a train is damaged,smashed wiper, light, windscreen or body panel, after hitting a bird and it causes a delay to a service, depending on the size of the bird is important to delay payment attribution. Pigeons and smaller, go to a technical failure of the train, anything above goes in to the shared pot with no blame attributable.
Also, if a bird shorts the 25kv overheads to earth and there is a trip, that is also no blame.