Flickr user y.ganden spotted a Japanese Bush Warbler in the blooming sakura trees.

We end with another of Hussain's beautiful photos, this time of a seagull on a local beach

Rives recaps the most memorable moments of TED2006 in the free spirited rhyming verse of a fantastical mockingbird lullaby.

See, while museums all over the world have dodo skeletons in their collection, nobody not even the actual Natural History Museum on the island of Mauritius has a skeleton that's made from the bones of a single dodo.

Near Kallaste, there is one of the largest surfacings of Devonian sandstone with a length of 930 m and a maximum height of 8 m, as well as several caves and one of the largest colonies of swallows in Estonia.

You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

And over a few hours, I eventually achieved what was actually a pretty reasonable dodo skull. And I didn't mean to continue, I it's kind of like, you know, you can only clean a super messy room by picking up one thing at a time you can't think about the totality.

It wasn t until later in the day that I went to her Flickr account to see her photos http www.flickr.com photos kristenolson . I was struck by the next to last http www.flickr.com photos kristenolson 4241087527 a bird flying free, in sharp focus against a fuzzy backdrop of sea and sky.