"The search for a national bird was organized by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and led by an Israeli ornithologist, Yossi Leshem. Dr. Leshem has created the International Center for Bird Migration in Latrun, the site of some very bloody battles in Israel’s War of Independence and home to a vast war memorial. The center’s hopeful slogan, printed in Hebrew, Arabic and English, is 'Migrating birds know no boundaries,' in contrast to the people on the ground, for whom boundaries are everything. This gives birdlife an added poignancy in Israel." -- NYT, "Will Peace Take Flight?", 6/10/08
And here I thought this was a made up word in Salman Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories." He did make up a bunch of words for that book, if I'm not mistaken. Someone must have a list.
"The search for a national bird was organized by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and led by an Israeli ornithologist, Yossi Leshem. Dr. Leshem has created the International Center for Bird Migration in Latrun, the site of some very bloody battles in Israel’s War of Independence and home to a vast war memorial. The center’s hopeful slogan, printed in Hebrew, Arabic and English, is 'Migrating birds know no boundaries,' in contrast to the people on the ground, for whom boundaries are everything. This gives birdlife an added poignancy in Israel." -- NYT, "Will Peace Take Flight?", 6/10/08
Nope--it's a real live bird, AZ. Fascinating creature. I hope to see a hoopoe some day. :-)
A Rushdie list? Oooh. That'd be something.
And here I thought this was a made up word in Salman Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories." He did make up a bunch of words for that book, if I'm not mistaken. Someone must have a list.