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tags: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, books
A reader sent a link to this cartoon that you might enjoy.
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Anyway, I know that the < sarcasm alert > entire blogosphere has been deeply deeply concerned whether I finally located a copy of the last Harry Potter book…
One of my earliest memories is of waves. I was 7 or 8 years old, on some nameless stretch of sand in southern California, and I was trapped. I don't remember when I learned to swim, and I don't remember a time when I didn't love the ocean. But I remember the day I learned to respect it.
My…
I got to thinking about my most-prized possessions. Which are they really? Which of my stuff would I try to rescue if the house caught fire, or if we had to flee enemy troops and bring along or hide our valuables?
One way to look at it would be to simply enumerate the most expensive stuff I have,…
Over at Respectful Insolence, Orac discusses an article where a scientist has spent his days shut away, slaving endlessly over a data set--of pictures of topless models. Why? To produce the perfect boob job, of course--or as the article puts it, "to help Hollywood look even more perfect."
Great.…
Since the movies were so successful, they've made over the ride at Disneyworld (Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones both make appearances), but there used to be an audio-animatronic parrot over the ride's entrance that talked to visitors and sang "Yo-ho, Yo-ho, a parrot's life for me."
I missed him on my last trip down!
Not parrot-related but bird-related: My daughter and I just returned from NYC. While there, we visited the "Design for the Other 90%" at the Cooper-Hewitt. We ate lunch in the museum's garden, where the gardener pointed out to us a hawk perched on a ledge of the building! It was being mobbed by smaller birds, and after a little while it took flight. When we left the museum an hour later, we encountered a knot of people on the corner of 5th Ave. and 91st St., all of them craning their necks skyward. The hawk was perched on the crossbar of the traffic signal! It was still being mobbed by smaller birds, several of which actually struck the hawk as they swooped by it. I wonder if this hawk could be one of the offspring of Pale Male.
Oh, but where's the Norwegian Blue?
In the cheese shop of course.
Parrot Orlando Bloom and Parrot Keira Knightley would have been more compelling than the human versions.
i see african and asian birds. the hawk-head is the only new world bird in the poster, but i don't think they range into the caribbean, do they? they could have done better.
True about the parrots.
However, the pirates came from Europe, Africa & Asia so weren't native birds ^-^
none of the parrots are caribbean. instead, the parrots are, from left to right, the Java moustached parakeet, Psittacula alexandri alexandri, endemic to Java and Bali; hawk-headed (red fan) parrot, Deroptyus accipitrinus, amazon basin, south america; derbyan parrot, Psittacula derbiana, southwestern china, female eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus, found on one of several islands of the southern pacific ocean (depending upon subspecies).