HI ALL:
Someone asked about this.

Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen
Bainbridge Is., WA, USA
ipaulsen at linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us
"Rallidae all the way"

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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:01:21 EST
From: David R. Ferry <DRFerry at AOL.COM>
To: BIRDCHAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Charlie's Angels and the Pygmy Nuthatch?

No one will ever say that Charlie's Angels will give Gone With The Wind
competition in the all-time greatest movie list, but at least it supplied 92
minutes of cheesy fun. Until, that is, a strange looking oriole lands on the
window ledge of the old stone mansion in which Bill Murray is imprisoned.

The oriole, looking sort of like a Scott's with a really ugly bill, hangs
around Murray for no apparent reason. Murray eventually remebers he has a
tiny transmitter attached to one of his molars, allowing him to talk to .
Cameron Diaz via the molar phone.

Then things get really weird. The oriole lets out a short warbled song of
some unidentifiable species. Diaz hears this and says "That's a Pygmy
Nuthatch! It's only found in the Carmel area! That's where Bosley [Murray]
must be"!

Puh-leez! I almost yelled out "What?!" in the theater. You'd think that
with a $90 million budget that someone could have realized that there are at
least 20 million birders in the USA, most of whom probably know an oriole
from a nuthatch.

Until then, the worst bird-related gaffe I had heard/seen in a movie was a
Paraque calling in the Southeast Asian jungle in Disney's The Jungle Book.

Maybe the ABA should offer its services to Hollywood as consultants to the
ornitholigically challenged.

David R Ferry
Yucaipa, CA
drferry at aol.com