When I told him of my fascination with "aves comicos" — those comical birds, the pelicans — he pointed his boat toward Urabá, an uninhabited island just across a narrow channel from Taboga's southern tip and part of the Refugio de Vida Silvestre Isla Taboga y Urabá nature reserve.
Kingsman: The Secret Service's's Taron Egerton is the NHS-spectacled, milk-drinking "plucky plasterer" who stole the show at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics with his creditable jumps and his comical flapping-bird gestures – living proof of Emily Dickinson's dictum, "'Hope' is the thing with feathers".
There were hundreds of puffins, the cute, comical-looking birds with colorful beaks that fly awkwardly but seemingly dive underwater as well as any fish.
The company has terrific fun with the puppet penguins, who are almost as expressively comical as real birds.
If so, I can guarantee a warm welcome for this comical, delightful and noisy bird.
That includes everything from a gravely comical photograph of intent bird-watchers by the architect and interior designer Bas Princen to the flexible silicone sinks by the artist Hella Jongerius that are installed in the children's bathrooms.
They're really beautiful birds, and apparently they were really rather comical in the way that flightless birds can be.
Later, the young birds are almost comical as they try to tackle the various feeders.
Painted with miniaturistic delicacy, it depicts some little female fairies sheltered within a bird's nest while comical, Boschian demons cavort about in the surrounding vegetation.
Picasso's colorful, thickly painted late-30's picture of a bull goring a horse is worth a visit all by itself, and so is Beckmann's "Soldier's Dream" from 1942, a darkly comical allegory of lust and death with bird-man and bird-woman lovers.
