Unfortunately not - you're thinking of the "attenuated, morose Father Christmas whose beard had come askew after a hot half-hour distributing presents."Was it the Tiger Bittern which stabbed him up the nose?
"This particular specimen glared at me with all the malignancy of an elderly colonel who had been woken up in his club by a drunken subaltern."
Which bird was the late, great Gerald Durrell referring to?
Is it the free-roaming grey-winged trumpeter?"This particular specimen glared at me with all the malignancy of an elderly colonel who had been woken up in his club by a drunken subaltern."
Which bird was the late, great Gerald Durrell referring to?
Correct - though I concur that this is stretching the 'Masters of the Air' title to encompass all birds, rather than just those capable of flight.Was it a kakapo?
Ironically not a 'master of the air' if so.
Long tailed and Lesser Shorttailed Bats in New Zealand?
Patagonian bonneted bat?
Chilean myotis and New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat
Meganeura, order Meganisoptera, otherwise known as Griffinflies