Not long ago I was the lucky winner of a lottery, and this wonderful postcard is the prize. A reason for joy, of course, to which is added the fact that it is a limited edition, that comes from
Mauritius and, not least, that was made and sent by my pals Samuel and Vivi, whose works you can find
here. It is however, also a cause for nostalgia, because I was (once upon a time) wild and free, like this bird, and now I became domestic and constraint, like a turkey. So it goes.
Changing the registry to dried information, if I'm not mistaken the bird in the picture is a
Rodrigues Fody (
Foudia flavicans), a rare species of bird in the weaver family, endemic to Rodrigues, an island of Mauritius, and classified by BirdLife International as being vulnerable.
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