Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!voder!pyramid!unify!unify!grp From: grp@magpie.unify.uucp (Greg Pasquariello) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Red-Crested Cardinal gets TV bit part: why? Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 90 15:47:52 GMT References: <77277@kean.ucs.mun.ca> Sender: news@unify.uucp (news admin) Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, California Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca's message of 11 Apr 90 12:25:42 GMT In article <77277@kean.ucs.mun.ca> dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca (David Graham) writes: [ Red-crested Cardinal in commercial ] My question is this: are there any North American records for this species? If not, is it a common cage bird on this continent? If not, did they actually go to South America to film this commercial? Can anyone suggest why they would choose this bird rather than a native species, beyond the obvious reason of its attractive appearance? -- *************************************************************************** David Graham dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca I don't know if there have been any NA records or not, but it was probably put in the commercial out of sheer ignorance. It cracks me up sometimes, how various species of birds are often used in completly inappropriate settings in movies and on TV. On an episode of "Murder, She Wrote" a few years ago I was real impressed with how the spoke about a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker; they didn't make any of the usual jokes - just solved some crime with plausible sapsucker facts. That is, until they mentioned something about it's habit of nesting on the ground. How much time can it take to research the basic habits of the single most important element of the plot? -Greg -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Pasquariello (916) 920-9092 grp@unify.UUCP Unify Corporation ...!{csusac, pyramid}!unify!grp "I think I have a woodpecker!" - s. strool