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Johnny Castaway is a screensaver released in 1992 by Sierra On-Line/Dynamix, and marketed under the Screen Antics brand as "the world's first story-telling screen saver".. The screensaver depicts a man, Johnny Castaway, stranded on a very small island with a single palm tree.
The vampire finch (Geospiza septentrionalis) is an unusual bird that only lives on two remote islands in the Galápagos: Wolf Island and Darwin Island. These two islands are about 100 miles away ...
The term “bower” refers to a comfortable and shady spot, which is exactly what these unique birds create. While some bowers look like nests, they are more akin to elaborate display areas. Male ...
The vampire ground finch (Geospiza septentrionalis) is a small bird native to the Galápagos Islands. Endemic to Wolf and Darwin Island, it was previously considered a very distinct subspecies of the sharp-beaked ground finch (Geospiza difficilis), [2] [3] but the International Ornithologists' Union has split the species based on strong genetic evidence that they are not closely related, and ...
The kagu possesses 'nasal corns', structures covering its nostrils, which are a feature not shared by any other bird. This bird is a juvenile, lacking the brightly coloured bill of the adult. The kagu is a ground-living bird, 55 cm (21 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in length. The weight can vary considerably by individual and by season, ranging from 700 to ...
The Wild Bird Fund can send volunteers to bring him to the hospital." That's so interesting and so sad! No one wants to think about wild birds flying into buildings or getting lost in the city ...
Eoörnis pterovelox gobiensis is a fictional bird, a humorous hoax by Lester W. Sharp, professor of botany, Cornell University, United States. It was initially a short talk presented together with a graduate student, Cuthbert Fraser, about the most unusual bird from the Gobi Desert, called woofen-poof by the local populace.
Unusual 'Snake Bird' in Florida Canal Looks Like Some Kind of Alien Creature. Diana Logan. September 30, 2024 at 12:42 PM. Shutterstock / Ondrej Prosicky.