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Well, I really was very much enthused, inspired and uplifted by the many kind and supportive comments so many of you added to the previous article. Thank you all. So enthused, in fact, that I couldn't help myself, and took time out of lunch breaks and so on to produce 'ticking over' material for Tet Zoo. As some of you know, I'm hard at work on a major project concerning birds at the moment (and, to the people who made speculations that such project might be lucrative... let me assure you that none of the science writing I do can be described as 'lucrative' - no money is involved in this…