July 3, 2007: Bouyantly-billed bird

Undertoad • Jul 3, 2007 8:37 am
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This one's just goofy.

According to Nat Geo, this rare smiling bird is "the rare recurve-billed bushbird", spotted recently in Colombia after a 40-year absence. Its curved-upward beak gives him the illusion of a smile, but we prefer to think he's just happy to see us.

This is in fact the first time this bird has been photographed! So it's a really rare beast.
odie number seven • Jul 3, 2007 8:55 am
He's ready for his close-up.
HungLikeJesus • Jul 3, 2007 12:02 pm
UT -- good job maintaining the alliteration.
Flint • Jul 3, 2007 12:03 pm
Tomorrow, we need a patriotic, alliterative IotD... I'm sure UT won't disappoint us...! . . . "Fantastic Frickin' Fireworks!"? "Human Hotdogs"?
Undertoad • Jul 3, 2007 12:18 pm
The IotD is worldwide so it would be inappropriate to use it to celebrate the holiday.
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Gravdigr • Jul 3, 2007 9:04 pm
Just one question: Original or extra crispy?:headshake
Sheldonrs • Jul 3, 2007 11:50 pm
What's the big deal? I've seen lots of peckers that curve up. lol!!!
spudcon • Jul 4, 2007 4:27 am
Dat ain't no banana, dat's my nose!
SPUCK • Jul 4, 2007 5:54 am
That is a horrible picture..

It looks like a 5 year old hacked it together in Paint. The eye looks hokey. The glare off the head. The glinting beak. The blurry nondescript background that could be anybody's back yard.

I think we're being scammed.
monster • Jul 4, 2007 12:30 pm
Sheldonrs;361093 wrote:
What's the big deal? I've seen lots of peckers that curve up. lol!!!


:rotflol:
Silazius • Jul 5, 2007 10:32 am
:D
Gravdigr;361070 wrote:
Just one question: Original or extra crispy?:headshake


Dem's good eatin'.
Coign • Jul 5, 2007 10:57 am
Undertoad;360884 wrote:
spotted recently in Colombia after a 40-year absence.


I read this one to quick and my strange brain of mush saw, "In Colombia after 40 years of substance abuse." and I immediately thought, "Yeah I would be smiling too."
TheMercenary • Jul 5, 2007 12:19 pm
Flint;360915 wrote:
Tomorrow, we need a patriotic, alliterative IotD... I'm sure UT won't disappoint us...! . . . "Fantastic Frickin' Fireworks!"? "Human Hotdogs"?


A total bust.
Undertoad • Jul 5, 2007 3:36 pm
Hey HEY! Where's MY holiday, enh?
TheMercenary • Jul 5, 2007 6:48 pm
Undertoad;361464 wrote:
Hey HEY! Where's MY holiday, enh?


(stated in my best broken chinese boss talk):

No holiday for you! back to work!
Griff • Jul 5, 2007 9:48 pm
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BigV • Jul 9, 2007 5:31 pm
Silazius;361410 wrote:
:D

Dem's good eatin'.


Birds or peckers?
xoxoxoBruce • Jul 30, 2007 3:15 am
And after only 3 months on Weight Watchers....
Shawnee123 • Jul 30, 2007 10:14 am
Hmm, a rare sighting of the Tufted Dental Pick Dove.
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