Set around 2003, Bird describes the economic downfall of main character Blythe Young.
The card, which is valid until 2020, features a photograph of the bird, described as Prof Yoda The Owl.
The Piasa bird, described by Jacques Marquette in 1673 as a birdlike monster etched in the bluffs on the Mississippi, is a famous local legend; a depiction has been repainted on the bluffs.
In his lectures, Bird describes many experiments with a similar aim on human sensory organs.
It was speculated that the remains could have belonged to a large, mysterious bird described by Leguat, and called "Leguat's giant" by some ornithologists.
The binomial name is derived from Greek kerthios, a small tree-dwelling bird described by Aristotle and others, and Latin familiaris, familiar or common.
Sélys Longchamps had originally named the genus Apterornis, wherein he also included the Réunion solitaire and the Réunion swamphen, but the name was preoccupied by Aptornis, a bird described by Richard Owen in 1844.
Although Lester had long been the frontrunner with most powers delegated to him, Bird, described in The Guardian as "a more single-minded, figure, long resentful at being over-shadowed by his sibling", was still seen as a close competitor – one with control of the nation's army.
You squawk like the most exuberant birds describing the way you each see the first morning light.
She later specialised in Asian birds describing several new species and clarifying the status of others, particularly white-eyes and owls.
