I could hardly believe the picture used on Wikipedia's TFA :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Vulture
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Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 20:33,
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Strange looking things aren't they
unlike Solo the kestrel, who is my favorite animal at work :)
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 20:48,
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Pretty.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIiQ-TXcuyQ
"Can it fly?"
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the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 21:22,
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my favourite bird of prey
nearly got to fly one last year, but it wouldnt play. had to make do with a harris hawk and a female eagle owl.
wanted the kestrel though!
there is a pair nesting in a tree across the road from my house and some rich cunt wants to build units on the land.i hope his helicopter crashes and he burns to death, the fucking cock.
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This one is a resilient fella
got into a fight with the male of a wild pair nesting in the grounds and ended up inside the tiger enclosure, and to his keeper's horror; subsequently inside the jaws of one one of our tigers. Amazingly the tiger didn't bite, and Solo got out and fought off both curious tigers with it's beak before the keepers had managed to get the cats inside their den, half expecting to find a mortally wounded dying kestrel once they got in there
But no, at the vets hospital it was discovered he had a few ruffled feathers on account of crashing through the tiger cage's roof; one hell of a plucky little feathery geezer :)
^taken the day after
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 23:15,
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There appears to have been a dreadful error
You appear to have accidentally been given my job by accident. Can I have it back please?? :)
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 2:19,
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