Yikes, I’m once again cutting it close … verry verry close this month. After this post I’ll still have another to go and right now not sure what that is going to be. But that is in the future and I’m living in the now. Recently we had the opportunity to visit Sin City, our home away from home. We have been using Las Vegas as a launch pad for photography shoots. If you recall a few years back we hit Zion (link here) while we were out there and this year we had similar plans to hit some scenic sights with a little less driving. Turns out I was able to do some bird watching while hanging out on the strip!
First on the list is the very entertaining Barmingo. This particular bird is rarely seen in the daylight preferring instead to spend its time at local happy hours and whatever hot new club is all the rage.
Basically being inebriated for a most of it’s adulthood, this particular bird has evolved into a clever self-preservation posture. Thanks to the lack of control of it’s legs, it spent the early years stumbling on every curb and uneven tile in the city. This proved a painful burden on the body which developed a permanent pink hue from all the bruising. Unfortunately, due to not having an means to stop itself, the beak took blast after blast from the ground resulting in the bulbous appendage we see today. Somewhere along the line it figured out it could prevent a lot of serious injury by adopting a different posture – one that allowed it to maintain better balance by placing the weight of the head over center mass and giving a much cushier landing should it stumble off the bar stool. There is still one feature that has not changed
They can’t hold their liquor. Quite sad really – they could have been so much more… As a word of caution you might want to reconsider playing in any local Vegas fountains – they tend to be covered in Barmingo vomit.
Hit the jump to see the rest of the birds we found hanging out in the Concrete Jungle we call Vegas
Life Intrigued 