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  1. kennethwfd

    Fiction Books on Birds

    The Roc is a legendary giant bird featuring in Middle Eastern folklore, in one version powerful enough to fly off with an elephant
  2. kennethwfd

    Fiction Books on Birds

    The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe Chicken Little The ugly Duckling Robinson Crusoe had Poll the parrot A dodo, duck. lory and eaglet are mentioned in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  3. kennethwfd

    Fiction Books on Birds

    A spoof of LOR featuring Mr Dildo Bu**er of Bug End and his exploits
  4. kennethwfd

    Fiction Books on Birds

    Didn't the battle of the Five Armies take place in the Hobbit? There is also the thrush who advises both Bilbo and Bard regarding the chink in Smaug's armour. There are also crows acting as spies in LOR. The Birds, a novel by Daphne du Maurier, probably better known as the Hitchcock film, on...
  5. kennethwfd

    Fiction Books on Birds

    In John Buchan's The Isle of Sheep, there is an episode where two children are being chased by the baddies, they make good their escape by a flock of pink foot geese, the young birds are curious rather than frightened, so their pursuers think they are behind the geese, not in front. Sir...
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    Fiction Books on Birds

    S&A has been set twice as a movie, perhaps the well known version was from 1974 starring Virginia McKenna and Ronald Fraser. There was a TV adaptation in 1963 with Susan George as "Kitty" Three radio adaptations, one for Children's hour, read by Derek McCulloch "Uncle Mac" and a 1999 adaptation...
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    Fiction Books on Birds

    Something similar in Great Northern, where John has become a decoy Dick, and to check whether he is being followed, both he and Nancy decide to spot a Great Auk and rapidly turn round without warning
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