Thursday, April 09, 2009

FANTASTIC BIRDS

This photograph was taken at Farnham Birdworld a couple of years ago. And, yes, of course my wife is a fantastic bird, but can you identify the others?

They are, of course, a moa, an elephant bird, and a phorusrhacos. They have three things in common: they are flightless, they are extinct and they are monumentally groovy, but the competition this time in order to win a free year's membership to the CFZ (including a four issue sub to Animals & Men, or a free year's subscription to The Amateur Naturalist (depending on which variety of CFZ agit prop interests you most) be the first person to email me telling me WHEN each species became extinct...



Good luck

1 comment:

  1. As for phorusrhacos - extinct about 15,000 years ago.
    ElephNtbird was around as late as 1649 and the Moa A.D. 1140
    Tony Lucas

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