You're looking at the bird with the shortest beak in the world, but only on a technicality, as beak length is measured from nostrils ('nares') to tips.
And the nostril of a kiwi bird is right on the very end of that long schnozzle.
Let's talk about the kiwi's completely unique 'nose'.
I've always been a little suspicious of calling any artist 'the greatest' as though there were some league table. But as the years passed, and the work continued it's restless advance, and the way of seeing never faltered, it became clear to me that David Hockney really was ours. RIP.
This is the moment the 45 000 employees of Docusign have been preparing for… let’s hope they pull it off
Remove the rats. The seabirds come back. The reef recovers. 🐦🪸
New research from Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows that just one year after invasive rats were removed from Ulong Island in Palau, ecosystems on land and sea were already responding:
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Have been enjoying some of the interviews on the Dick Cavett Show on YouTube lately. This is a great segment with Ian McKellen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziqe1XwXgSE
A citron pressé and the new Fred Vargas in the bar of the Comédie Française in Paris. This is what I came here for
What a ripper!
Today we are wishing a Happy Birthday to Maurice Sendak, who was born #onthisdate in 1928.
If you've not read Where The Wild Things Are, read it today. Or if you've not read it for a while, read it today.
And then let the wild rumpus start.
