The Grauniad says that this is an alpine swift, Tachymarptis melba, but it looks like a common swift, Apus apus, to me (Photograph: Buiten-Beeld/Alamy via Grauniad)
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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…
• Homing in the Gloaming – Homing: On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return, Jon Day (John Murray 2019)
• Niceberg – The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, Dave Grohl (Simon & Schuster 2021)
• Nasty Lastly – Nasty Endings 1, compiled by Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press 2001)
• Daysed and Confused – Hawkwind: Days of the Underground: Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia, Joe Banks (Strange Attractor 2020)
• World-Wide Wipe-Out – Empty World, John Christopher (1977)
• Chuck Off – Post Office, Charles Bukowski (1971)
• #AllDayDong – Dong, Peter Sotos and Sam Salatta (TransVisceral Books 2022)
• Meet the Maverick Munch-Bunch… – Naked Krunch: The Sinister, Sordid and Strangely Scrumptious Story of SavSnaq, Dr David M. Mitchell (Savoy Books 2022)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Long-tailed Sylph, Aglaiocercus kingii, in the Colombian rain-forest (from LiveScience)
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Flock of Scarlet Ibis, Eudocimus ruber, over Caroni Swamp, Trinidad (from Flickr)
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Mandarin duck, Aix galericulata (Linnaeus 1758) (from the In-Terms-in-ator)
Peri-Performative Post-Scriptum
“I Like Aix” corely references “I Like Ike”, a slogan for Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower’s presidential campaign in the 1950s. Aix galericulata means “crested aix”, the word αἴξ, aix, being used by Aristotle for an unknown variety of water-bird. In Greek, it would have been pronounced something like “aye-ks”, which is what I’ve used in the title of this incendiary intervention. But “ay-ks” is probably better in modern English.
White bird-eggs of various species
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Elsewhere other-accessible…
• Eggs for Eyes — colored eggs of various species
Blue-and-yellow macaw, Ara ararauna (Linnaeus, 1758), by Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Previously pre-posted
Eggs of various common species of British wild bird
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Red and yellow maccaw, Macrocercus aracanga, by Edward Lear (1812-1888)
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(Now Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao)
Elsewhere other-accessible…
John Gould’s illustration of Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, Cacatua leadbeateri (now Lophochroa leadbeateri) (1865)
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 