On
days when I learn something new, I always feel elated, happy, even
though it's not a great discovery or very useful knowledge for me
personally or my work. I know something about birds and bees, but what I
learned today, by chance, is about a few variety of birds that have
very peculiar characteristics. Four types, all new to me as, love as I
do of just about animals of any kind, bird and insects are what I know
least of all, most of them I don't even know their names. I am very
glad that I can claim now I know at least 4 types of birds, all with
rather unusual and peculiar characteristic and habits.
The
Foundation of the Barcelona Zoo has published a manual of the enormity
of diversities of the bird species which populate the city itself as
if it's an orchard or their private garden homestead, paying little or
no attention much less fear of human around them. The 4 varieties I
find especially uncommon ~
1)
The Wryneck - near the enclosure (or is it called compound?) of the
lions, where visitors are amused to watch how the bird would every now
& then stick out it's tongue to imitate the hissing of a snake!
2)
The common 'Mosquitero' (I don't know the name in English) is the only
whistling bird that is capable of consuming each day one third of it's
body weight of insects!! I weigh today 40 kilos. Can you imagine I, or
anybody, eating 30 kilos of food daily??
3)
The Heron. These are the mysterious animals that caused great disorder
and worry in the mid 80's with their extremely racy & vigorous
flights all over the flat roofs of the city, calling up the frightful
images of Hitchcock's scary film.
4)
The Dunnock. Although they are small in size & similar colouring
of the common sparrow, now in the month of October they come visiting
Barcelona. They always seem to come in little groups of threesomes -
one female with 2 males, or vice versa. Kinky!!!!
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