Birding Bond

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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Alan Gordon Partridge (alter ego of Steve Coogan): Bond expert.
  
  Stop getting Bond wrong
  
  Alan tells Sonya his Bank Holiday James Bond schedule
  
  Alan's Roger Moore Meltdown - Knowing Me Knowing You - BBC
  
  A Quantum of Alan (Alan Partridge and James Bond - The Moore Years) Getting Bond Wrong
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  j_w_pepper wrote: »

  ...I just noticed that the SF "Shanghai hotel" scenes were filmed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Heron Tower, Canary Wharf, London.

  Fair enough. Notice this relates to the Finch, Page 8.
  
  Canary - kə·’ne·rē/ - noun
  1. a yellow finch
  2. a domesticated (usually yellow) yellow songbird
  3. a sweet wine made in the Canary Islands
  4. a potential victim of wrongdoing, similar to a pigeon
  5. an informant who “sings”, similar to a stool pigeon
  adjective
  1. a shade of bright yellow color
  French (canari). Spanish (canario, as from the Canary Islands (Latin Canariae Insulae, or "Islands of the Dogs"). So called for the resident large dogs (Spanish Gran Canaria; source, Latin Canine).
  
  Canary [Serinus and Crithagra and others): social birds, gathering to feed on seeds from flora and the ground. Sometimes bugs and plants. The males of the species sing (as geared to courtship), and are considered more valuable. Experiments in space using canaries failed—they need gravity to swallow.
  
  Atlantic canary (Serinus canaria): the wild canary, aka island canary, common canary or canary. A type of finch found in the Canary Islands, the Azores, Madeira. Yellow, greenish, brown streaks. A common pet.
  
  Yellow canary (Crithagra flaviventris): a small finch from west and central southern Africa.
  
  
  
  Domestic canary (Serinus canaria domestica): a popular pet in various forms, colors, shapes. Canary yellow. Even red.
  
  Australian plainhead: bred for show, obviously down under but also in the US. Origins from Norwich, England—actually preserves the original UK breed that has changed over time where it came from.
  
  Harz Roller (German: Harzer Roller [ˈhaɐ̯ʦɐ ˈʁɔlɐ]: from the Upper Harz mountains, Germany. Known for its fine melody delivered through a closed bill.
  
  Red factor canary: a so-called “color canary” bred for that trait as a show bird or pet.
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Thrilling Cities, Ian Fleming, 1963.
  Chapter XIII - Monte Carlo
  [WARNING: Spoilers.]
  [Jacques-Yves Cousteau's] company recently won a Hollywood Oscar for Cousteau's film The Golden Fish. This is the story of a small Chinese boy who wins a goldfish in a lottery. In his small room he already has a canary in a cage and when he goes off to school each day the goldfish in its bowl and the canary make friends. A hungry black cat hears the canary singing for joy over the acrobatics of the goldfish and we see him climb in through the window just as the boy is leaving school. As the boy saunters home, the cat tries to get at the canary and, prepared to sacrifice himself for his friend, the fish jumps out of the bowl on to the table. The cat leaves the canary and slowly stalks the fish. Will the little boy be in time? No, he can't be! Hurry! Hurry! The cat picks up the fish in his mouth! Disaster! But, as the little boy walks into the room, the cat reaches up and drops the goldfish back into his bowl.

  
  

  The Man with the Golden Gun, Ian Fleming, 1965.
  Chapter 6 - The Easy Grand
  …
  "You forget all about it. This'll buy you a nice canary in a cage to keep you company. Anyway another pair of klings'll come along if you put some food out." He patted her shoulder and moved away. When he came up with Scaramanga he stopped and said, "That may have been a good circus act"--he used the word again on purpose-- "but it was rough on the girl. Give her some money."
  Scaramanga said "Shove it" out of the corner of his mouth.

  
  
  Canary yellow
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  The Canary Islands (Latin Canariae Insulae, or "Islands of the Dogs") are a Spanish archipelago off Morocco, Atlantic Ocean. So called for the resident large dogs (Spanish Gran Canaria, source Latin Canine).
  
  
  They make wine there. Born of volcano and sea.
  
  
  
  Canary Wharf: an east London major business area, Tower Hamlets borough. Now a main financial center, originally a busy vessel trade area known as the West India Docks, Isle of Dogs. Its One Canada Square building is the second tallest in the UK.
  Called the most Bondian of tube stations, for some reason.
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  The World is Not Enough, 1999. Canary Wharf, Isle of Dogs, England, UK.
  (Pre-title sequence, the 02 Arena shown below is one of several focuses of the action)

  Casino Royale, 2006. House 82, Cardogan Square, Canary Wharf, Isle of Dogs, England, UK.
  (M’s residence)

  Skyfall, 2012. Virgin Active Pool, Four Seasons Hotel, Canary Wharf, Isle of Dogs, England, UK.
  (Shanghai hotel swimming-pool)
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  The legendary canary in a coal mine served as early warning for low oxygen levels or deadly gas. A favorite for scientific studies. (Conversely, at times some miners breeding canaries for sale found them too valuable to risk and so used captured birds instead.)
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  Canaries are often depicted in the media, with Tweety Bird being a well-known example.
  Confirmed. To be determined.
  
  DC Comics has The Black Canary. She’s White. Dressed in Black.
  
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

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  RichardTheBruce wrote: »

  The Canary Islands (Latin Canariae Insulae, or "Islands of the Dogs") are a Spanish archipelago of Morocco, Atlantic Ocean.

  May I humbly presume that you meant to say "off Morocco"?
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Confirmed! [And corrected, thanks, @j_w_pepper.]
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  That...is a good idea, @Birdleson. I'm educating myself here, so old and new.
  Not too consistent with the mask, I'm seeing.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Lemon piping. Just sayin'.
  
• Thunderfinger Das Boot Hill

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  Who should play Black Canary on the big screen?
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Geraldine? I don't think so. Okay, maybe.
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Hawk - hôk/ - noun
  1. a medium-sized bird of prey active in the daytime
  2. espousers of war-like actions
  verb
  1. to hunt wherein a man uses a trained hawk
  2. catching prey on the wing by birds or others
  3. loudly vocal advertising of goods
  4. a noisy gathering of phlegm in the throat
  
  Hawk (Accipitrinae): birds of prey generally smaller than an eagle and larger than a falcon. Smart, adaptive. Feed on small animals, sometimes bugs. Migrate—citizen hawkwatchers gather data later compiled for scientific research. Where once falconry was termed hawking, today a bird used for falconry is called a hawk.
  
  Includes: Northern goshawk (A. gentilis), Eurasian sparrowhawk (A. nisus), Grey-bellied hawk (A. poliogaster), Crested goshawk (A. trivirgatus), Sulawesi goshawk (A. griseiceps), Red-chested goshawk (A. toussenelii), African goshawk (A. tachiro), Chinese sparrowhawk (A. soloensis), Frances's sparrowhawk (A. francesii), Anjouan sparrowhawk (Accipiter francesiae pusillus), Spot-tailed sparrowhawk (A. trinotatus), Grey goshawk (A. novaehollandiae), Brown goshawk (A. fasciatus), Christmas goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus natalis), Pied goshawk (A. albogularis), Fiji goshawk (A. rufitorques), White-bellied goshawk (A. haplochrous), Moluccan goshawk (A. henicogrammus), Grey-headed goshawk (A. poliocephalus), New Britain goshawk (A. princeps), Black sparrowhawk (A. melanoleucus), Henst's goshawk (A. henstii), Meyer's goshawk (A. meyerianus), Chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk (A. castanilius), Nicobar sparrowhawk (A. butleri), Levant sparrowhawk (A. brevipes), Slaty-mantled sparrowhawk (A. luteoschistaceus), Imitator sparrowhawk (A. imitator), Red-thighed sparrowhawk (A. erythropus), Little sparrowhawk (A. minullus), Japanese sparrowhawk (A. gularis), Dwarf sparrowhawk (A. nanus), Rufous-necked sparrowhawk (A. erythrauchen), Collared sparrowhawk (A. cirrocephalus), New Britain sparrowhawk (A. brachyurus), Vinous-breasted sparrowhawk (A. rhodogaster), Madagascar sparrowhawk (A. madagascariensis), Ovambo sparrowhawk (A. ovampensis), Rufous-chested sparrowhawk (A. rufiventris), Shikra (A. badius), Tiny hawk (A. superciliosus),Semicollared hawk (A. collaris), Sharp-shinned hawk (A. striatus), White-breasted hawk (A. s. chionogaster), Plain-breasted hawk (A. s. ventralis), Rufous-thighed hawk (A. s. erythronemius), Cooper's hawk (A. cooperii), Gundlach's hawk (A. gundlachi), Bicolored hawk (A. bicolor), Besra (A. virgatus), Gabar goshawk (M. gabar), Dark chanting goshawk (M. metabates), Eastern chanting goshawk (M. poliopterus), Pale chanting goshawk (M. canorus), Long-tailed hawk (U. macrourus), Red goshawk (E. radiates), Chestnut-shouldered goshawk (E. buergersi), Doria's goshawk (M. doriae). Common buzzard (Buteo buteo), Madeira buzzard (Buteo buteo harterti), Steppe buzzard (Buteo buteo vulpinus), Eastern buzzard (Buteo japonicas), Himalayan buzzard (Buteo burmanicus), Cape Verde buzzard (Buteo bannermani), Socotra buzzard (Buteo socotraensis , Red-tailed hawk ( Buteo jamaicensis), Long-legged buzzard (Buteo rufinus), Rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus), Ferruginous hawk (Buteo regalis), Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus), Broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus), Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni), Ridgway's hawk (Buteo ridgwayi), Short-tailed hawk (Buteo brachyurus), White-throated hawk (Buteo albigula), Galápagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis), Grey-lined hawk (Buteo nitidus), Grey hawk (Buteo plagiatus), Zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus), Hawaiian hawk (Buteo solitaries), Rufous-tailed hawk (Buteo ventralis), Mountain buzzard (Buteo oreophilus), Forest buzzard (Buteo trizonatus), Madagascar buzzard (Buteo brachypterus), Upland buzzard (Buteo hemilasius), Red-necked buzzard (Buteo auguralis), Jackal buzzard (Buteo rufofuscus), Archer's buzzard (Buteo archeri), Augur buzzard (Buteo augur).
  
  Frances's sparrowhawk
  
  Eurasian sparrowhawk
  
  Christmas goshawk
  
  Collared sparrowhawk
  
  Plain-breasted hawk
  
  Hawaiian hawk
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Live and Let Die, Ian Fleming, 1954.
  Chapter I - The Red Carpet
  They drank the cold hard drink appreciatively, Leiter with a faintly quizzical expression on his hawk-like face.

  Live and Let Die, Ian Fleming, 1954.
  Chapter XIV - 'He Disagree With Something That Ate Him'
  He saw again the pale straw-coloured mop that used to hang down in disarray over the right eye, grey and humorous, and below it the wry, hawk-like face of the Texan with whom he had shared so many adventures. He thought of him for a moment, as he had been. Then he tucked the lock of hair back into the bandages and sat on the edge of the other bed and quietly watched over the body of his friend and wondered how much of it could be saved.

  Diamonds Are Forever, Ian Fleming, 1956.
  Chapter 8 – The Eye That Never Sleeps
  Bond straightened himself slowly and for a moment he could only gaze into the grinning hawk-like face of Felix Leiter with blank disbelief, his built-up tension slowly relaxing.
  "So you were doing a front tail, you lousy bastard," he finally said.

  Diamonds Are Forever, Ian Fleming, 1956.
  Chapter 20 - Flames Coming Out of the Top
  It rolled to a stop just in front of her and a hawk-like face under an untidy mop of straw-coloured hair stuck itself out of the window. Keen grey eyes briefly looked her over, They glanced at the prostrate figure of the man in the dust beside the road and came back to her.
  Then, in a friendly Texan drawl, the driver said, "Felix Leiter, Mam. At your service. And what may I do for you on this beautiful morning?"

  
  

  Goldfinger, Ian Fleming, 1959.
  Chapter Twenty-One - The Richest Man in History
  'Not bad for a rookie,' commented Leiter. 'May put the rear diesel out, but those jobs are twins and he can make it on the forward engine.'
  Bond got to his feet. He smiled warmly into the hawk-like, slate-grey eyes. 'You bungling oaf,' he said sarcastically, 'why in hell didn't you block that line?'

  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Live and Let Die , Ian Fleming, 1954.
  Chapter XIII - Death of a Pelican
  You didn't have to be amongst them to hear it all. It was all in the nodding and twittering of the balls of blue fluff, the back-slapping and hawk-an-spitting of the little old baldheads.
  …
  Leiter took out his notecase. 'Would twenty talk?'
  'Nope.' The man gave a rattling hawk in his throat and spat directly between Bond and Leiter.

  
  

  Live and Let Die , Ian Fleming, 1954.
  Chapter XVII - 'The Undertaker's Wind'
  Outside, the crickets and the tree-frogs started to zing and tinkle and the great hawkmoths came to the wire-netting across the windows and clutched it, gazing with trembling ecstasy at the two oil lamps that hung from the cross-beams inside.

  
  

  Doctor No, Ian Fleming, 1959.
  Chapter XX – Slave Time
  Above them the candles began to dance. A big hawkmoth had come in through one of the windows. It whirred round the chandelier. The girl's closed eyes opened, looked at the moth. Her mouth drew away. She smoothed the handful of his hair back and got up, and without saying anything took down the candles one by one and blew them out. The moth whirred away through one of the windows.

  Oleander Hawkmoth
  
  Eyed Hawkmoth
  
  
  
  
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  Goldfinger, Ian Fleming, 1959.
  Chapter Seven - Thoughts in a DB III
  'He won't play them, sir. Says they're too slow. And I agree with him. And don't you worry about my fee. There's a lot of work to do in the shop and I’ll be glad of an afternoon to get down to it.' Alfred Blacking glanced at his watch. 'He'll be along any minute now. I've got a caddie for you. Remember Hawker?' Alfred Blacking laughed indulgently. 'Still the same old Hawker. He'll be another that'll be glad to see you down here again.'

  
  

  Goldfinger, Ian Fleming, 1959.
  Chapter Sixteen – The Last and the Biggest
  'I espouse any enterprise that will increase my stock of gold. I invest, I smuggle, I steal.' Goldfinger made a small gesture of the hands, opening the palms persuasively. 'If you will follow the simile, regard history as a train speeding along through time. Birds and animals are disturbed by the noise and tumult of the train's passage, they fly away from it or run fearfully or cower, thinking they hide. I am like the hawk that follows the train - you have no doubt seen them doing this, in Greece for instance - ready to pounce on anything that may be flushed by the train's passage, by the passage of history. To give you a simple example: the progress of history produces a man who invents penicillin. At die same time, history creates a world war. Many people are dying or afraid of dying. Penicillin will save them. Through bribery at certain military establishments on the Continent, I obtain stocks of penicillin. I water these down with some harmless powder or liquid and sell them at immense profit to those who crave the stuff. You see what I mean, Mr Bond? You have to wait for the prey, watch it carefully and then pounce. But, as I say, I do not search out such enterprises. I follow the train of history to flush them towards me.'

  
  

  The Spy Who Loved Me, Ian Fleming, 1962.
  Chapter Fifteen: The Writing on My Heart
  "So the message I want to leave with you, my dear—and I've talked with Washington and I've learned something about Commander Bond's outstanding record in his particular line of business—is this. Keep away from all these men. They are not for you, whether they're called James Bond or Sluggsy Morant. Both these men, and others like them, belong to a private jungle into which you've strayed for a few hours and from which you've escaped. So don't go and get sweet dreams about the one or nightmares from the other. They're just different people from the likes of you—a different species." Captain Stonor smiled. "Like hawks and doves, if you'll pardon the comparison. Get me?"

  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1963.
  Chapter 7 - The Hairy Heel of Achilles
  ...
  ...Sable Basilisk looked rather dubious. 'You see, in some families there is a strong physical characteristic that goes on inevitably from generation to generation. The Habsburg lip is a case in point. So is the tendency to haemophilia among descendants of the Bourbons. The hawk nose of the Medici is another. A certain royal family have minute, vestigial tails. The original maharajahs of Mysore were born with six fingers on each hand. I could go on indefinitely, but those are the most famous cases. Now, when I was scratching around in the crypt of the chapel at Blonville, having a look at the old Bleuville tombs, my flashlight, moving over the stone faces, picked out a curious fact that I tucked away in my mind but that your question has brought to the surface. None of the de Bleuvilles, as far as I could tell, and certainly not through a hundred and fifty years, had lobes to their ears.'

  
  

  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1969.
  I was born without ear lobes. A well-known congenital distinction of Bleuchamp ancestry. Like the Hapsburg lip, or the hawknose of the Medicis.

  Phillip IV of Spain, suffered from the Hapsburg Lip (and difficulty chewing food, retardation, impotence
  due to royal inbreeding)
  
  Giuliano de' Medici & Lorenzo de' Medici and the hawk nose
  
  

  Thrilling Cities, Ian Fleming, 1963.
  Chapter VIII – Hamburg
  All this and much more, until four o'clock in the morning, takes place in the Bikini, but the hardy night-hawk has still got a choice of some twenty other haunts from the Galopp, where semi-nude women ride horses round and round a small ring, through Casanova with its 'Strip-tease Explosiv', and an indeterminate Lokal advertising in English, 'You get here the strongest beer of the world', the Aladin where guitars twang softly all the night, to the Erotic, and on beyond.

  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Fokker-Aviolanda (Hawker) Hunter F6 in The Man With the Golden Gun, 1974.
  Marked as a Soviet MiG, a recovered nose section shown on the way to see M on the half-sunken HMS Queen Elizabeth, Hong Kong Harbor.
  Reappears in the pre-titles sequence in Octopussy, 1983--maintainers at work on it as OO7 plants a bomb.

  http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Category:Hawker_Hunter
  
  

  Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 in The Living Daylights, 1987.
  Seen on the runway at the Gibraltar opening.

  http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Category:Hawker_Siddeley_Nimrod
  
  

  Hawker Siddeley Harrier T4A in The Living Daylights, 1987.
  Lifting the “defector” to safety.

  http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Category:Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier
  
  

  Northrup Grumman E-2 Hawkeye in Licence to Kill, 1989.
  During the film’s opening the aircraft locates Sanchez.

  http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Category:Northrop_Grumman_E-2_Hawkeye
  
  
  

  Cessna 172P Skyhawk in Goldeneye, 1995.
  OO7 uses it to search for OO6 and the Janus satellite dish in Cuba.
  [IMPDB points out: apparently Bond got a good trade-in deal on his BMW Z3.]

  http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=GoldenEye#Cessna_172P_Skyhawk
  
  
  

  The World Is Not Enough, 1999.
  The Parahawks were supposed to be returned!

  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  I'll do my best, sir.
  
• Revelator

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  Yes, this is indubitably the best free-association thread in Bond history.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Booby - ˈbo͞o-bē/ noun
  1. a dumb person
  2. a large seabird sometimes identified by its feet
  3. a female breast
  4. a childish term for bruise or other injury
  
  Latin (balbus, stammering). Norse (Sula, used as the Genus name, actually means Gannet). Possibly Spanish (bobo, stupid).
  
  Booby (Sula): large seabirds similar to but different from Gannets (and even more different than Albatross/Gooney Birds). Dive into the sea to pursue and catch fish. Breed in large colonies on coasts and islands. Known for their courtship displays. Peaceful, to the point of regularly alighting on ships at sea and becoming dinner in older times. Led to (sometimes true) tales of shipwrecked sailors surviving on them—witness William Bligh of the Bounty and crew left adrift by mutineer Fletcher Christian and the rest.
  
  Includes: Masked booby (Sula dactylatra), Nazca booby (Sula granti), Brown booby (Sula leucogaster), Blue -footed booby (Sula nebouxii), Red-footed booby (Sula sula), Peruvian booby (Sula variegata), Abbott's booby (Papasula abbotti).
  
  Masked booby
  
  
  
  
  Nazca booby
  
  
  Brown booby
  
  Blue -footed booby
  
  
  
  Red-footed booby
  
  
  Peruvian booby
  
  Abbott’s booby
  
  Booby colony
  
  Miscellaneous
  
  
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  Dr. No, Ian Fleming, 1958.
  Chapter IV – Reception Committee
  Quarrel was pleased. "Him a good fren of mine, da Pus-Feller. Him knows mostly what goes hon hin Kingston case you got hany questions, cap'n. Him come from da Caymans. Him an' me once share a boat. Then him go hoff one day catching boobies' heggs hat Crab Key. Went swimmin' to a rock for more heggs an' dis big hoctopus get him. Dey mos'ly small fellers roun' here but dey come bigger at da Crab seein' how its alongside de Cuba Deep, da deepest waters roun' dese parts. Pus-Feller have himself a bad time wit dis hanimal. Bust one lung cuttin" hisself free. Dat scare him an' him sell me his half of da boat an' come to Kingston. Dat were 'fore da war. . Now him rich mail whiles I go hon fishin'." Quarrel chuckled at the quirk of fate.

  
  

  For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming, 1960.
  “The Hildebrand Rarity”
  "Who cares anyway? What's it got to do with you — or me for the matter of that?"
  "Just this, my friend. We are going to spend a few days sailing with Mr Krest — and Mrs Krest, the beautiful Mrs Krest. I have agreed to take the ship to Chagrin — the island I have spoken to you about. It is bloody miles from here — off the African Banks, and my family have never found any use for it except for collecting boobies' eggs. It's only about three feet above sea-level. I haven't been to the damned place for five years. Anyway, this man Krest wants to go there. He’s collecting marine specimens, something to do with his Foundation, and there's some blasted little fish that's supposed to exist only around Chagrin Island. At least Krest says the only specimen in the world came from there."
  …
  They anchored outside the reef in ten fathoms and Fidele Barbey took them through the opening in the speedboat. In every detail Chagrin was the prototype coral island. It was about twenty acres of sand and dead coral and low scrub surrounded, after fifty yards of shallow lagoon, by a necklace of reef on which the quiet, long swell broke with a soft hiss. Clouds of birds rose when they landed — terns, boobies, men-of-war, frigates — but quickly settled again. There was a strong ammoniac smell of guano, and the scrub was white with it. The only other living things were the land crabs that scuttled and scraped among the liane sans fin and the fiddler-crabs that lived in the sand.

  
  
  
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  From Russia With Love, Ian Fleming, 1957.
  Chapter 23 – The Killing Bottle
  `Doesn't worry me, old man. My end of the job's going to be easy.' Nash took a quick glance at his wrist watch. `In about twenty minutes we go into the Simplon tunnel. That's where they want it done. More drama for the papers. One bullet for you. As we go into the tunnel. Just one in the heart. The noise of the tunnel will help in case you're a noisy dier---rattle and so forth. Then one in the back of the neck for her---with your gun---and out of the window she goes. Then one more for you with your gun. With your fingers wrapped round it, of course. Plenty of powder on your shirt. Suicide. That's what it'll look like at first. But there'll be two bullets in your heart. That'll come out later. More mystery! Search the Simplon again. Who was the man with the fair hair? They'll find the film in her bag, and in your pocket there'll be a long love letter from her to you---a bit threatening. It's a good one. SMERSH wrote it. It says that she'll give the film to the newspapers unless you marry her. That you promised to marry her if she stole the Spektor . . .' Nash paused and added in parentheses, `As a matter of fact, old man, the Spektor's booby-trapped. When your cipher experts start fiddling with it, it's going to blow them all to glory. Not a bad dividend on the side.' Nash chuckled dully.

  
  

  For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming, 1960.
  “From a View to a Kill”
  Bond smiled into her eyes. He said: "If you hadn't come, I'd have had to break that dinner date." He turned back to the men, his voice businesslike. "All right. One of you take the motor-bike and report the gist of this to Colonel Schreiber. Say we're waiting for his team before we take a look at the hide-out. And would he include a couple of anti-sabotage men. That shaft may be booby-trapped. All right?"

  
  

  You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming, 1964.
  Chapter 18 – Oubliette
  …He took out his flashlight and pushed farther, probing the darkness ahead with his thin beam. It was as well he did so. On the stone floor where his first step past the open door would have taken him, lay a yawning man-trap, its rusty iron jaws, perhaps a yard across, waiting for him to step on the thin covering of straw that partially concealed it. Bond winced as, in his imagination, he heard the iron clang as the saw-teeth bit into his leg below the knee. There would be other such booby-traps - he must keep every sense on the alert!

  
  

  The Man with the Golden Gun, Ian Fleming, 1965.
  Chapter 7 – Un-Real Estate
  The eggs came and were good. The mousseline sauce might have been mixed at Maxim's. Bond had the tray removed, poured himself a last drink and prepared for bed. Scaramanga would certainly have a master key. Tomorrow, Bond would whittle himself a wedge to jam the door. For tonight, he upended his suitcase, just inside the door and balanced the three glasses on top of it. It was a simple booby trap, but it would give him all the warning he needed. Then he took off his shorts and got into bed and slept.

  
• 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"

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  Those are some great boobies, @RichardTheBruce. Not the ones I was hoping for, but great ones nonetheless.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Hey, it's Father's Day here. Just trying to help out.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Well, to be honest that’s a tall order @Birdleson. But we have all the time in the world for these things, I guess.
  You know my approach is book and film. Here’s what I got so far. On teats.
  
  Teat - tēt/ - noun
  1. the nipple of a milk-producing female mammary gland (any mammal)
  2. a reasonable facsimile (of definition 1)
  
  Middle English (precedes "tit"). Old French (tete). Likely Germanic origins (those Germans!). Latin (mamma, mamilla, uber, udder, papilla, sumen).
  

  Dr. No, Ian Fleming, 1958
  Chapter XIII – Mink-Lined Prison
  While Bond took in the scene, the woman at the door twittered conventional phrases of welcome as if they had been caught in a storm and had arrived late at a party.
  "You poor dears. We simply didn't know when to expect you. We kept on being told you were on your way.
  First it was teatime yesterday, then dinner, and it was only half an hour ago we heard you would only be here in time for breakfast. You must be famished. Come along now and help Sister Rose fill in your forms and then I'll pack you both straight off to bed. You must be tired out."

  

  Dr. No, 1962.
  Come in. Come in! Come in... you poor dears. We simply didn't know when to expect you.
  First it was teatime yesterday, and then dinner. It was only half an hour ago we knew you were on your way.

  

  From Russia With Love, 1963.
  We'd better get dressed now.
  Why? It's almost six.
  So?
  Well, it's... it's teatime!
  We'll have it in here. We'll have all our meals here.
  Yes, that would be splendid. But I've arranged to meet Kerim in the restaurant car.
  You go alone. I will stay here.
  My dear Mrs Somerset, we're supposed to be a respectable English couple. They would certainly have tea in the restaurant.

  
  

  Licence to Kill, 1989.
  El Teatro de la Ciudad, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
  Stand-in for: Isthmus City (notional) - exterior of Casino de Isthmus.

  
  

  Spectre, 2015.
  Teatro di Marcello, Via del Teatro di Marcello, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
  Rome car chase at night.

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Thanks for your patience on this.
  

  Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953.
  Chapter 1 – The Secret Agent
  Satisfied that his room had not been searched while he was at the casino, Bond undressed and took a cold shower. Then he lit his seventieth cigarette of the day and sat down at the writing-table with the thick wad of his stake money and winnings beside him and entered some figures in a small note-book. Over the two days' play, he was up exactly three million francs. In London he had been issued with ten million, and he had asked London for a further ten. With this on its way to the local branch of Credit Lyonnais, his working capital amounted to twenty-three million francs, or some twenty-three thousand pounds.
  For a few moments Bond sat motionless, gazing out of the window across the dark sea, then he shoved the bundle of banknotes under the pillow of the ornate single bed, cleaned his teet…
  …
  Chapter 2 – Dossier for M
  Description: Height 5 ft 8 ins. Weight 18 stones. Complexion very pale. Clean shaven.
  Hair red brown, 'en brosse'. Eyes very dark brown with whites showing all round iris.
  Small, rather feminine mouth. False teet…

  
  

  Dr. No, Ian Fleming, 1958.
  Chapter VI – The Finger on the Trigger
  The centipede had reached his knee. It was starting up his thigh. Whatever happened he mustn't move, mustn't even tremble. Bond's whole consciousness had drained down to the two rows of softly creeping feet. Now they had reached his flank. God, it was turning down towards his groin! Bond set his teet…
  …
  Chapter VII – Night Passage
  He must have slept because he was awakened by the clonk of a paddle against the boat. He lifted his arm to show that he had heard and glanced at the luminous blaze of his watch. Twelve-fifteen. Stiffly he unbent his legs and turned and scrambled over the thwart.
  "Sorry, Quarrel," he said, and it was odd to hear his voice. "You ought to have shaken me up before."
  "Hit don signify, cap'n," said Quarrel with a grey glint of teet...

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Octopussy, Ian Fleming, 1966.
  “Octopussy”
  Major Dexter Smythe, O.B.E., Royal Marines (Retd.), was the remains of a once brave and resourceful officer and of a handsome man who had had the sexual run of his teet…
  …
  Major Smythe held his hands apart as if telling a story about a fish he had caught. The bars would be about as wide as his shoulders and about two by four inches. And one single English sovereign of only eighteen carats was selling nowadays for two to three pounds! This was a bloody fortune! Forty, fifty thousand pounds worth! Maybe even a hundred! He didn't stop to think, but, quite coolly and speedily, in case anyone should come in, he put a match to the paper and the envelope, ground the ashes to powder, and swilled them down the lavatory. Then he took out his large-scale Austrian ordnance map of the area and in a moment had his finger on the Franziskaner Halt. It was marked as an uninhabited mountaineer's refuge on a saddle just below the highest of the easterly peaks of the Kaiser mountains, that awe-inspiring range of giant stone teet…
  …
  Time to get rid of the evidence. The box had a handle at each end. Major Smythe had expected it to be heavy. He had mentally compared its probable weight with the heaviest thing he had ever carried—a forty-pound salmon he had caught in Scotland just before the war—but the box was certainly double that weight, and he was only just able to lift it out of its last bed of rocks onto the thin alpine grass. Then he slung his handkerchief through one of the handles and dragged it clumsily along the shoulder to the hut. Then he sat down on the stone doorstep, and, his eyes never leaving the box, he tore at Oberhauser's smoked sausage with his strong teet…
  …
  Oberhauser's sausage was a real mountaineer's meal—tough, well-fatted, and strongly garlicked.
  Bits of it stuck uncomfortably between Major Smythe's teet…
  …
  Major Smythe, questing for his prey along the reef, wondered what exactly those last words of the Bond man had meant. Inside the Pirelli his lips drew mirthlessly back from the stained teet…

  Okay, maybe that doesn't need follow-up after all.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  @ j_w_pepper wrote:
  ...I just noticed that the SF "Shanghai hotel" scenes were filmed
  at the Four Seasons Hotel in Heron Tower, Canary Wharf, London.

  Heron - ˈher·ən/ noun
  1. a large wading bird
  
  Old French (hairon, or eron, older hairo). Frankish (haigiro). Germanic (haigrô, hraigrô).
  
  Heron (Ardeidae): Heron refers to the overarching group of birds but also includes Egrets (usually white or having feathered plumes) and Bitterns (smaller, stockier). They have long legs, a long beak, with a neck that shapes an “S” and is pulled back in flight (different from a Stork or a Crane’s outstretched neck, for example). Feed on fish, small animals, shellfish, insects. Practice stealth, stillness, and patience in catching food. Social, monogomaous. Males build the nest and use it to attract a mate. Earned the name shitepoke (or shikepoke, or shypoke) for their tendency to empty their bowels when startled.
  
  Includes: Boat-billed heron (Cochlearius cochlearius), Bare-throated tiger heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum), Fasciated tiger heron (Tigrisoma fasciatum), Rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum), White-crested tiger heron (Tigriornis leucolopha[/i]), Forest bittern (Zonerodius heliosylus[/i]), Zigzag heron (Zebrilus undulatus[/i]), Little bittern (I. minutus), Black-backed bittern (I. dubius), Cinnamon bittern (I. cinnamomeus), Stripe-backed bittern (I. involucris), Least bittern (I. exilis), Yellow bittern (I. sinensis), Von Schrenck's bittern (I. eurhythmus), Dwarf bittern (I. sturmii), Black bittern (I. flavicollis), American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus), Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris), Pinnated bittern or South American bittern(Botaurus pinnatus), Australasian bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus), Black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), Nankeen night heron or rufous night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus), Yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea), White-backed night heron (Gorsachius leuconotus), White-eared night heron (Gorsachius magnificus), Japanese night heron (Gorsachius goisagi), Malayan night heron (Gorsachius melanolophus), Green heron or green-backed heron (Butorides virescens), Lava heron (Butorides sundevalli), Striated heron (Butorides striatus), Agami heron (Agamia agami), Capped heron (Pilherodius pileatus), Indian pond heron (Ardeola grayii), Squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides), Chinese pond heron (Ardeola bacchus), Javan pond heron (Ardeola speciose), Malagasy pond heron (Ardeola idea), Rufous-bellied heron (Ardeola rufiventris), Western cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), Eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus), Great blue heron (Ardea Herodias), Grey heron (Ardea cinerea), Goliath heron (Ardea goliath), Cocoi heron (Ardea cocoi), White-necked heron or Pacific heron (Ardea pacifica), Black-headed heron (Ardea melanocephala), Humblot's heron (Ardea humbloti), White-bellied heron (Ardea insignis), Great-billed heron (Ardea sumatrana), Purple heron (Ardea purpurea), Great egret or great white egret (Ardea alba), Eastern great egret (Ardea modesta), Intermediate egret (Ardea intermedia), Pied heron (Ardea picata), Whistling heron (Syrigma sibilatrix), Little egret (Egretta garzetta or Ardea garzetta), Snowy egret (Egretta thula), Reddish egret (Egretta rufescens), Slaty egret (Egretta vinaceigula), Black heron (Egretta ardesiaca ), Tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor also known as Louisiana heron), White-faced heron (Egretta novaehollandiae or Ardea novaehollandia), Little blue heron (Egretta caerulea), Pacific reef heron (Egretta sacra or Ardeasacra), Western reef heron (Egretta gularis ), Dimorphic egret (Egretta dimorpha), Chinese egret (Egretta eulophotes).
  
  Black-crowned night heron
  
  Japanese night heron
  
  Tricolored heron (also known as the Louisiana heron)
  
  Snowy egret
  
  Pacific reef heron
  
  
  Fasciated tiger heron
  
  Dwarf bittern
  
  Boat-billed heron
  
  
  
• Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl

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  I thought of this thread while I was on holiday, as I saw a few relevant birds: kites, storks, and Alpine choughs. Here are some storks nesting on a Spanish church:
  
  
• 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"

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  @Agent_99, cool storks, but where are the infants at?