Daily Zoo Animal: #6: Pied Imperial Pigeon

[urbpan]

Pied Imperial Pigeon Ducula bicolor

The pied imperial pigeon is a large fruit-eating pigeon found in a large geographic range, between India and Australia. This individual is in Franklin Park Zoo's Birds World building, in the rainforest exhibit. Signage there indicates that "This bird has the ability to eat fruits bigger than its own head by stretching its jaws more than 2 inches."

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Comments

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Think you left out an "eat" there. Or, maybe a "swallow".

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Ack! Right you are--boy this job is making me tired.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* now if it coud eat its own head, that would be impressive :D

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hello, pigeon!

My favourite pigeon remains the Passenger though. And then the Dodo *g*

[bdot.livejournal.com]

we went to the woodland park zoo in seattle today. that is a really nice zoo!

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

"ruits"? ;)

And what does "pied" mean?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Arg! I fixed one typo to create another!


Pied means "having two or more colors." Usually refers to black and white animals. (African pied crow, for example.)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Now that I say that, I think it actually means "wearing clothes with patches."

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

"Why looky yonder, a pied ragamuffin!"

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of Zulu crows flying out of a big pie now. Oh, we are so screwed. They don't look happy.