Mystery bird

[shewhomust]

desperance has turned his ingenuity, and his network of expert contacts, to the task of identifying the mystery bird at Budapest zoo. We were initially tempted by the Crowned Crane, which is a splendid and elegant creature, and seems to display the right kind of behaviour, but after some squinting at a very bad photograph of the sign on its enclosure decided that it was a Crested Seriema. Here's another one: the text is in Magyar, which is more appropriate than helpful, but the picture does justice to its crest (not always the case).

Thank you, desperance. And thank you, too, David, should you happen to be passing.

Thanks also to people who've said kind things about the holiday posts: I wrote them to please myself, because it's my diary, after all, so it was a bonus to hear that others had enjoyed them.