Re: birds

my wife might disagree with you. she maintains that pelicans are the last link to flying dinosaurs. but they're not very interesting when they walk--they just waddle like a duck.


At 09:33 AM 2/20/03 -0500, you wrote:
In a message dated 02/19/2003 7:59:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jsinger@igc.org writes:

> i've had to stop my truck to allow a slow moving great blue
> heron to cross the road. they move so deliberately slow, placing one foot
> so methodically in front of the other. i've come to think of them as
> mechanical objects just because of how they move. but they make eye-contact
>
> with you--big amber eyes with iridescent blue in the iris. and that's why
> you don't run the dumb things over; they've got your number.
>

I always think they look prehistoric. In my mind, they support the
connection of birds and dinosaurs more than any other birds.

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