19 Feb
2001
19 Feb
'01
3:55 a.m.
From: Helen Krummenacker avona@jps.net
And definitely no chickadees singing in the background.
Well, you would know better than I would what songbirds you find in Greece.
Yeah, not that I've ever been there but I could make some educated guesses. But Americans should be able to recognise their own songbirds and think, "Hey, this ain't Europe."
And who went and put all those kookaburras in the African jungle?
Oddly, the Federation seemed to populate the galaxy with only European avifauna (full list in the Sevencyclopaedia, under 'Birds').
While I'm on the subject, study of a few stills from Bounty suggests that the stuffed thrush in Sarkoff's collection is probably a Fieldfare.
Neil