Birding Bond

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• ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España

  April 2017 Posts: 2,541

  RichardTheBruce wrote: »

  ggl007 wrote: »

  IAN FLEMING PUBLICATIONS LIMITED.

  
  Ian Fleming Publications Limited is the successor to Glidrose, publisher of the original Bond novels in the 1950s and 1960s. The name Glidrose is a combination of its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose. Fleming bought the company in 1952. Today it's operated by the Fleming family.
  
  The company logo (above) uses the image of a doctor bird, the national bird of Jamaica.
  
  
  Fleming describes the doctor bird in the opening passage to his story "For Your Eyes Only".

  The most beautiful bird in Jamaica, and some say the most beautiful bird in the world, is the streamer-tail or doctor humming-bird. The cock bird is about nine inches long, but seven inches of it are tail — two long black feathers that curve and cross each other and whose inner edges are in a form of scalloped design. The head and crest are black, the wings dark green, the long bill is scarlet, and the eyes, bright and confiding, are black. The body is emerald green, so dazzling that when the sun is on the breast you see the brightest green thing in nature. In Jamaica, birds that are loved are given nicknames. Trochilus polytmus is called 'doctor bird' because his two black streamers remind people of the black tail-coat of the old-time physician.

  
  I can only add the bird is known as the doctor bird but also as the red-billed streamertail, scissor-tail or scissors tail hummingbird. Only the male has the signature tail. It is endemic to (lives only in) Jamaica.
  
  Doctor bird
  
  
  Doctor bird female
  

  
  Excellent! =D>
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  April 2017 Posts: 13,767

  j_w_pepper wrote: »

  Since we've had the "crane" from CR, Madeleine "Swan(n)", a "Brandt" goose...
  let's not forget the franchise's most prominent duck...

  Well, you threw me a curve ball with that one, @j_w_pepper.
  
  But I'll dive right in and put those ducks in a row. Ente!
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  @Birdleson, how best to do that?
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  April 2017 Posts: 13,767

  Yes, you're suggesting additive lists in the spirit of statistics? This discussion has a lot more context/images presented in a different style.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Absolutely, I'd like to do that over time probably starting by collecting movie-related IDs then updating the post for new entries.
  
  A more long term lane will be mining each Fleming novel for what appears as bird life. You can see I've touched on it, but intend to approach it in a more holistic way.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Just a start. Books first.
  
  Duck - \ˈdək\ - noun
  
  1. diving waterfowl (female, compare to drake as male or duckling as offspring)
  

  From Russia With Love: Rosa Klebb stood over the girl like some dreadful mother duck, clucking encouragement.

  Maui duck
  

  “The Property of a Lady”: He joked with the two junior girls, but Maria Freudenstein only looked up from her machine to give him a polite smile and Bond's skin crawled minutely at this proximity to treachery and at the black and deadly secret locked up beneath the frilly white blouse. She was an unattractive girl with a pale, rather pimply skin, black hair and a vaguely unwashed appearance. Such a girl would be unloved, make few friends, have chips on her shoulder—more particularly in view of her illegitimacy—and a grouse against society. Perhaps her only pleasure in life was the triumphant secret she harbored La that flattish bosom—the knowledge that she was cleverer than all those around her, that she was, every day, hitting back against the world—the world that despised, or just ignored her, because of her plainness—with all her might. One day they'd be sorry! It was a common neurotic pattern—the revenge of the ugly duckling on society.

  
  
  2. diving waterfowl (food)
  

  Goldfinger: Goldfinger patted his mouth with his napkin. He snapped his fingers. The two men cleared away the plates and brought roast duckling and a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1947 for Bond.

  
  
  3. darling (British)
  
  4. person, creature
  
  5. heavy cotton (close weave)
  

  Live and Let Die: At the same time three negroes in white ducks came running down the cliff steps to the narrow jetty and stood by to catch lines.

  
  6. lightweight duck clothing, usu. trousers
  

  Doctor No: Bond's eyes went to the two men standing in the stern. They were pale-skinned Negroes. They wore neat khaki ducks and shirts, broad belts, and deep visored baseball caps of yellow straw.

  
  
  7. an easy target
  

  “The Living Daylights”: And then, in the sniperscope, Bond saw the head of Trigger—the purity of the profile, the golden bell of hair—all laid out along the stock of the Kalashnikov! She was dead, a sitting duck!

  
  
  8. a hopeless state of certain death--the living dead, of a sort
  

  The Spy Who Loved Me: This fellow Sluggsy only needed to knock out the rear window and swim ashore. He was hit several times. It must have been hard going for him. But he got to our cabin. We ought to be dead ducks.

  The Spy Who Loved Me: "Don't be silly, James! If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have got into all this mess. And where would I be now if it wasn't for you? I'd not only have been a dead duck, but a roasted one too, hours ago. [See also definition 2]

  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The avalanche would snap perhaps the first hundred yards of firs down like match-sticks. Bond used his brain and veered slightly left-handed. The opening, the glade cut for the Black Run, would surely be somewhere below the last flag he had been aiming for. If it wasn't, he was a dead duck!

  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: There were more turns, more hazards, but, at a bare ten miles an hour, they were child's play and soon Bond was through the tree-line and into 'Paradise Alley', the finishing straight, where he slowly came to a halt. He left the skeleton where it stopped and scrambled over the low ice-wall. Here the snow was beaten hard by spectators' feet and he stumbled slowly along, nursing his aches, and occasionally dabbing at his head with handfuls of snow. What would he find at the bottom, by the cable station? If it was Blofeld, Bond would be a dead duck!

  
  
  Also note: The Duck Inn, Pett Bottom near Canterbury in Kent.
  dover-kent.com/Duck-Inn-Pett-Bottom.html

  You Only Live Twice: (Obituary) ...and the youth came under the guardianship of an aunt, since deceased, Miss Charmian Bond, and went to live with her at the quaintly-named hamlet of Pett Bottom near Canterbury in Kent. There, in a small cottage hard by the attractive Duck Inn, his aunt, who must have been a most erudite and accomplished lady, completed his education for an English public school, and, at the age of twelve or thereabouts, he passed satisfactorily into Eton, for which College he had been entered at birth by his father.

  Circa 1966.
  
  
  
  Next: the verb form. Maybe a film reference.
• Some_Kind_Of_Hero

  April 2017 Posts: 6,844

  Thank you for providing us very best duck, @RichardTheBruce! ;)
  
  Seriously though, as Birdleson says, this thread is pretty excellent.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  With pleasure, @Some_Kind_Of_Hero. With pleasure.
  
  In the absence of on screen waterfowl I'm going with the kitchen sink approach.
  So as Bond said so well to Kara Milovy in THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS: Duck!
  
  
  
  Duck - \ˈdək\ - verb
  
  1. sudden downward movement
  

  From Russia With Love: As the driver jammed on his brakes, there sounded a deafening scream above their heads. Both men instinctively ducked as a flight of four MIG 17s came out of the setting sun and skimmed over them, their squat wind-brakes right down for the landing.

  MiG-15s (disclaimer: hard to find four MiG-17s)
  
  Mallards
  
  

  The Spy Who Loved Me: His duck wasn't quick enough, and the silver spray of knives and forks burst round his head.

  
  Wood duck
  
  2. to dodge (a query, one's duties, responsibilities)
  

  Casino Royale: He exchanged some pleasant words with his neighbours to right and left and then ducked under the rail to where Vesper and Felix Leiter were waiting for him.

  Muscovy black pied duck
  

  Diamonds are Forever:
  After a while she said: "You ever read Alice in Wonderland?"
  "Years ago," said Bond, surprised. "Why?"
  "There's a line there I often think of," she said. "It says, 'Oh, Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool of tears? I am very tired of swimming about here, oh Mouse.' Remember? Well, I thought you were going to tell me the way out. Instead of that you ducked me in the pool. That's why I got upset." She glanced up at him. "But I guess you didn't mean to hurt."

  
  
  
  

  You Only Live Twice:
  Bond: Why do Chinese girls taste different from all other girls?
  Ling: You think we better, huh?
  Bond: No, just different. Like Peking Duck is different from Russian Caviar, but I love them both.
  Ling: Darling, I give you very best duck.

  Peking duck
  
  Description:
  - duck prepped with honey, molasses, soy sauce, sugar, Kosher salt
  - baked 2 hours (or up to 9 or more hours), drying the bird especially the skin
  - bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit, at 30 minute rotations to darken the bird
  - slice the bird
  - served with hoisin sauce, cucumber, scallions.
  - wrap in small pancakes for eating.
  
  
  Mandarin duck
  
  
  1967 Hong Kong Tram Ride with "The Ding Dong Song", Tsai Chin (1959)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7owg-RQsEac
  
  Very best duck
  
• BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb

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  Once I got the time I most definitely will read all of this and enjoy it tremendously. From what I've seen so far on the first page, this could become my favourite thread.
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  April 2017 Posts: 13,767

  Finishing what @j_w_pepper started.
  
  Citroën - ˈsit·run/ - noun
  1. lemon (French)
  2. French car manufacturer, company founded 1919 by André-Gustave Citroën
  Citroën 2CV - ˈsit·run too·see·vee/ - noun
  1. French car manufactured by that company
  2. a.k.a "duck"
  
  And for the record:
  Lemon - ˈlem·ən/ - noun
  1. yellow citrus fruit
  2. the color yellow
  3. a troublesome and defective product, usually an automobile (American colloquialism)
  
  Of interest for Bond history there are two models from the 1980s.
  [Disclaimer: images of scale models freely used below.]
  
  2CV6 Spécial - as used in FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981).
  [Filmmakers utilized a flat-4 Citroën GS engine to double the power.]
  
  In 1981 the 007 arrived as a special edition (standard engine, though). Note the bullet hole stickers.
  
  
  1985: two-toned Dolly.
  
  
  1986: the Cocorico (cock-a-doodle-doo), to promote the 1986 World Cup.
  Plus "Le Coq Gaulois" (Gallic rooster) represents France.
  
  "Le Coq Gaulois"
  
  1988: French manufacturing ends, Portugal continues to 1990.
  
  
  If you believe the stickers, apparently there was an ejector seat option.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com

  April 2017 Posts: 18,264

  Birdleson wrote: »

  @RichardTheBruce is my favorite of the refugees.

  
  Yes, this thread is quickly becoming one of my favourites on the site and I'm sure glad we gave @RichardTheBruce and others from the IMDb boards sanctuary here.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Enjoying death, @Birdleson and @Dragonpol. Enjoying death.
  
  Along with @j_w_pepper and many others I'm sure.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Here's a teaser, a sort of read-ahead on the cormorant, mentioned earlier in discussion
  but deserving more detail. I'll follow up later in the week.
  
  

  Doctor No:
  A soft voice said, "Yes, sir." Bond heard the door close. "Now then, guano." Pleydell-Smith tilted his chair back. Bond prepared to be bored. "As you know, it's bird dung. Comes from the rear end of two birds, the masked booby and the guanay. So far as Crab Key is concerned, it's only the guanay, otherwise known as the green cormorant, same bird as you find in England. The guanay is a machine for converting fish into guano. They mostly eat anchovies. Just to show you how much fish they eat, they've found up to seventy anchovies inside one bird!" Pleydell-Smith took out his pipe and pointed it impressively at Bond. "The whole population of Peru eats four thousand tons of fish a year. The sea birds of the country eat five hundred thousand tons!"
  
  Bond pursed his lips to show he was impressed. "Really."
  
  "Well, now," continued the Colonial Secretary, "every day each one of these hundreds of thousands of guanays eat a pound or so of fish and deposit an ounce of guano on the guanera--that's the guano island."
  
  Bond interrupted, "Why don't they do it in the sea?"
  
  "Don't know." Pleydell-Smith took the question and turned it over in his mind. "Never occurred to me. Anyway they don't. They do it on the land and they've been doing it since before Genesis. That makes the hell of a lot of bird dung-millions of tons of it on the Pescadores and the other guanera. Then, around 1850 someone discovered it was the greatest natural fertilizer in the world-stuffed with nitrates and phosphates and what have you. And the ships and the men came to the guaneras and simply ravaged them for twenty years or more.

  
  Publicity still from YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE shows Mie Hama with a local cormorant.
  

  You Only Live Twice:
  To Bond's astonishment, there was a flurry in the water of the bay and a big black cormorant shot like a bullet through the shallows and waddled up the beach to Kissy's feet, craning its neck up and down and hissing, apparently in anger. But Kissy bent down and stroked the creature on its plumed head and down the outstretched neck, at the same time talking to it gaily. She came towards the boat, winding up the long line, and the cormorant followed clumsily. It paid no attention to Bond, but jumped untidily over the side of the boat and scrambled on to the small thwart in the bows where it squatted majestically and proceeded to preen itself, running its long bill down and through its breast feathers and occasionally opening its wings to the full extent of their five-foot span and flapping them with gentle grace. Then, with a final shimmy through all its length, it settled down and gazed out to sea with its neck coiled backwards as if to strike and its turquoise eyes questing the horizon imperiously.
  
  Kissy climbed into the boat and settled herself with her knees hunched decorously between Bond's outstretched legs, and Bond slid the heavy, narrow-bladed oars into their wooden rowlocks and began rowing at a powerful, even pace, more or less, under Kissy's direction, due north.
  
  He had noticed that Kissy's line to the cormorant ended with a thin brass ring, perhaps two inches in diameter, round the base of the bird's neck. This would be one of the famous fishing cormorants of Japan. Bond asked her about it.
  
  Kissy said, 'I found him as a baby three years ago. He had oil on his wings and I cleaned him and cared for him and had him ringed. The ring has had to be made larger as he grew up. Now, you see, he can swallow small fish, but the big ones he brings to the surface in his beak. He hands them over quite willingly and occasionally he gets a piece of a big one as a reward. He swims a lot by my side and keeps me company. It can be very lonely down there, particularly when the sea is dark. You will have to hold the end of the line and look after him when he comes to the surface. Today he will be hungry. He has not been out for three days because my father could not row the boat. I have been going out with friends. So it is lucky for him that you came to the island.'
  
  'So this is David?'
  
  'Yes. I named him after the only man I liked in Hollywood, an Englishman as it happens. He was called David Niven. He is a famous actor and producer. You have heard of him?'
  
  'Of course. I shall enjoy tossing him a scrap or two of fish in exchange
  for the pleasure he has given me in his other incarnation.'

  
  

  You Only Live Twice::
  James Bond took his place and unshipped the oars, and the cormorant scrambled on board and perched imperiously in the bows. Bond measured where the rest of the fleet lay on the horizon and began to row.
  
  Kissy smiled into his eyes and the sun shone on his back and, so far as James Bond was concerned, it was a beautiful day just like all the other days had been - without a cloud in the sky.

  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Gosh, that's compelling. I'll dig in.
  
  I'm thinking the stork is kind of the antithesis to Bond, a nice contrast. Not so dark a side, though.
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Æsop's Fable: The Cormorant and the Fishes.
  
  So the Cormorant convinced the fish of the imminent draining of the pond.
  The fish begged for help.
  The cormorant moved them to a shallow pool where he could eat them at his leisure.
  
  The lesson: know your enemy and who to trust.
  
  Not so different from Spectre's attempted 9 eyes caper, really. Just successful.
  
• Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl

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  Here is all I know about cormorants:
  

  The common cormorant or shag
  Lays eggs inside a paper bag
  The reason you will see no doubt
  It is to keep the lightning out
  But what these unobservant birds
  Have failed to notice is that herds
  Of wandering bears may come with buns
  And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.
  
  - Christopher Isherwood
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

  April 2017 Posts: 9,019

  Here are a few cormorant pictures I took on or near the Li River, Guilin, China, in 1994. The fishermen use them to catch fish. The cormorants are tied to the boat (or float), and their necks are constricted at the lower end to let only small fish pass. When they catch a big one, the fisherman pulls them back to his boat and takes the fish out of their throat.
  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  That's awesome, @j_w_pepper. I had my experience witnessing them at Iwakuni Japan.
  
  You'd think that's a local flourish the filmmakers could have presented briefly on screen. I'm biased, and nature can be difficult to represent, but it's worth having a special crew the way they have an action unit to film some incidental scenes and quick inserts to add to the locale.
  
  This especially is a lost opportunity. But I guess the women divers were easier to manage.
  
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

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  One more thing, @RichardTheBruce... how come the seagull (Laridae family) hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet? Even if it was mostly reduced to a headgear in the GF PTS...
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Just addressing some other species first, @j_w_pepper. I know you're holding a showstopper or two in reserve.
  
  Good on you with the gull, some parts of the web think it's a duck.
  Anyway, somebody should market that thing. It's a winner.
  
  
• pking_3 Punting under the Bridge of Sighs

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  Hi Rich! How are things? Also, an Albatros (but not an albatross) features prominently in TND.
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

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  I also wondered recently if the typical Bond girl might not give cause for dealing more extensively with the species of Parus major.
  
  SCNR
• Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl

  April 2017 Posts: 3,176

  pking_3 wrote: »

  Hi Rich! How are things? Also, an Albatros (but not an albatross) features prominently in TND.

  
  Well, if we're going down that route, how about a Harrier (TLD)?
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

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  And there's an Alouette helicopter in YOLT and also OP, alouette being French for lark.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  A busy week, now I gotta catch up.
  
  Welcome, @pking_3. Noted, @Agent_99.
  
  
  And I'll go there, @j_w_pepper.
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  Addendum. See also Page 4.
  
  Cormorant - ˈkôr·mə·rənt/ - noun
  1. large diving seabird with a hunger for fish
  
  Old French cormaran, Latin corvus marinus (sea raven).
  
  Cormorant (and shag) from the Phalacrocoracidae family. Dark often bluish coloring, long necks, thin bills with a hooked end. Some capable of diving to 45 meters. Usually coastal, found around the world excepting the mid-Pacific. Colonial nesters. Out of the water will strike a pose with wings outstretched to dry them.
  
  Temminck's cormorant, native to Japan
  
  
  Double-breasted cormorant
  
  
  As described by Aki and witnessed by @j_w_pepper and myself, cooperative human-cormorant fishing continues today in China and Japan as tradition and for tourism. Evidence exists it was performed in Korea, India, Egypt, Peru, and even in Europe (Doiran Lake, Macedonia).
  
  In practice, a snare or ring around the throat restricts passage, and prevents larger fish from being swallowed to be returned to the owner. Cormorant eggs are lifted from nests, then the young chicks are raised to fish alongside their masters in a mutual relationship, bird and man. Known for their appetite, the cormorant is driven to bite off more than they're allowed to chew.
  
  Green cormorant
  
  
  Rough-faced shag
  
  Imperial shag
  
  
  Appear in Western art, approximating a Christian cross as noble, or sacrificial. That notion is mocked by John Milton in Paradise Lost, as Satan in disguise indicating greediness. Satan in the Tree of Life summed the form of a cormorant, also frog, snake.

  Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life,
  The middle tree and highest there that grew,
  Sat there like a cormorant.

  
  
  A good sign in Scandanavia. Norway: a loved one perishing at sea may return as a cormorant.
  
  Cormorants in coat-of-arms. Liverpool.
  
  Merseyside
  
  Liverpool University of Hope
  
  
  Liverpool's liver bird on the Liver Building: half cormorant, half eagle.
  
  
  
  Canadian Forces CH-149 Cormorant
  
  
  Pelagic cormorant
  

  The Cormorant in Its Element, by Amy Clampitt
  
  That bony potbellied arrow, wing-pumping along
  implacably, with a ramrod's rigid adherence,
  airborne, to the horizontal, discloses talents
  one would have never guessed at.
  
  Plummeting waterward,
  big black feet splayed for a landing gear,
  slim head turning and turning, vermilion-
  striped, this way and that, with a lightning glance
  over the shoulder, the cormorant astounding-ly,
  
  in one sleek involuted arabesque, a vertical
  turn on a dime, goes into that inimitable
  vanishing-and-emergin-from-under-the-briny-
  deep act which unlike the works of Homo Houdini,
  
  is performed for reasons that nothing at all
  to do with ego, guilt, ambition or even money.

  
  1952 Packard.
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  For J.W. and Mr. Clifton James
  
  
  
  
  Albatross - ˈal·bə·trôs/ - noun
  1. large ocean-going bird, a.k.a. gooney bird
  2. a cause for unrequited solace
  3. a mental burden, even a curse
  4. in golf, a double eagle (after: the birdie, the eagle)
  

  THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, Sheriff J.W. Pepper:
  "You pointy-heads has no more idea of traffic control than a gooney bird!"

  
  
  From Arabic (al-câdous or al-ġaţţās meaning pelican, diver), Portuguese (alcatraz as gannet, and as in the prison).
  
  
  Gooney bird (also goonie bird) in the North Pacific. South of the equator: mollymawk (from malle-mugge, old Dutch).
  
  
  Albatross (Diomedeidae). Among the largest seabirds (wingspan almost 4 meters) with a wide range across North Pacific and Southern Ocean, absent in the Atlantic and the North Pacific. Large bill that tapers to a hook. There are 22 identified species. Dine on fish, squid, and sea creatures. Alternately dives or scavenges for food.
  Nest in colonies on remote islands.
  
  The order Procellariiformes from Latin procella: storm, severe wind.
  Diomedea relates to Greek warrior Diomedes' companions transforming into birds.
  
  
  In flight: reputation for aerial dexterity combined with ease of motion, soaring effortlessly for long periods.
  Black-browed albatross
  
  
  
  Landings: not so graceful.
  Layson albatross
  
  Ritual dances between pairs mating for life.
  Layson albatross
  
  
  In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), sailors learn not to mess with the bird.
  https://poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43997
  Killing an albatross--bad karma to say the least.
  
  
  So the albatross literally becomes a cross to bear.
  
  

  The Albatross, by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Eli Siegel)
  
  Often, to amuse themselves the men of the crew
  Lay hold of the albatross, vast birds of the seas-
  Who follow, sluggish companions of the voyage,
  The ship gliding on the bitter gulfs.
  
  Hardly have they placed them on the planks,
  Than these kings of the azure, clumsy and shameful,
  Let, piteously, their great wings in white,
  Like oars, drag at their sides.
  
  This winged traveler, how he is awkward and weak!
  He, lately so handsome, how comic he is and uncomely!
  Someone bothers his beak with a short pipe,
  Another imitates, limping, the ill thing that flew!
  
  The poet resembles the prince of the clouds
  Who is friendly to the tempest and laughs at the bowman;
  Banished to ground in the midst of hootings,
  His wings, those of a giant, hinder him from walking.

  
  Some sailors ate the bird, others caught them but set them free on the idea they may be lost souls of sailors.
  
  More to follow.
  
  
• ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España

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  That was very good =D>
• BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb

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  Tears in my eyes, thank you @RichardTheBruce
  Beautiful post
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  There's more.
  
  Addendum. Likely of more port than what's already posted.
  
  Surely Clifton James through his character J.W. Pepper popularized a piece of 20th Century history long past its shelf life: the gooney bird. And by extension, it's a highlight and tribute to folks with a similar background. May not have been planned that way by screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz or members of the LIVE AND LET DIE production team, but that's how I see it at this late date.
  
  Backing up a bit, Clifton grew up in Washington State and Oregon. During the Great Depression, like many who couldn't find employment, he worked for the CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps. The 1930s transitioned to the 1940s and the US entered the war, so he entered the US Army to serve with distinction.
  
  As a decorated World War II veteran, Mr. Clifton James is a part of what Americans call The Greatest Generation. He was assigned as a Sergeant (enlisted grade E-5) and platoon sergeant with the U.S. Army Combat Infantry, Company A, 1st Battalion, 163rd Infantry Regiment, 41st Infantry Division. His time in the Pacific Theater spanned January 1942 to August 1945. Sergeant James saw duty in Australia, and combat action in the Philippines, New Guinea.
  
  
  41st Infantry Division Unit Insignia.
  Blazon: Army Green border; blue base line (combat service); demi-sun, 12 rays.
  Nickname: "Sunset Division." Organized around the Pacific Northwest,
  therefore the sun sets on the Pacific Ocean. [The blue line indicates combat.]
  
  
  163rd Infantry Regiment Distinguished Unit Insignia.
  Blazoned shield: blue and white (the Infantry colors, plus combat service); Per fess Argent and Azure; palm tree on mount Proper (indicates Philippine service for the unit); giant cactus base (Mexican border); fleur-de-lis.
  Blue double scroll with unit motto, Gold letters: "MEN, DO YOUR DUTY".
  Established 1941 with the Montana National Guard.
  
  
  Military decorations.
  Silver Star Medal.
  United States military's third-highest decoration for valor in combat. Awarded for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States. (For an Army soldier, only the Distinguished Service Cross and Medal of Honor are higher.)
  
  Bronze Star Medal.
  For heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone.
  
  Purple Heart Medal (2 awards).
  In the name of the US President, for those wounded or killed while serving.
  
  Presidential Unit Citation.
  For extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy on or after 7 December 1941.
  "The Pearl Harbor Day", as my grandmother called it.
  
  Combat Infantry Badge.
  To soldiers colonel and below who fought in combat as infantry, ranger or Special Forces.
  
  
  I got some information from the website linked below, TogetherWeServed.com, which cites military experience and seeks to reconnect unit members. Notice how these professionals chose to use an image of Clifton in character as the sheriff for his "in uniform" picture. Can't help but think he was in on it.
  http://army.togetherweserved.com/army/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApps?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=343374

  Daily Mail:
  Lynn James said one of the Purple Hearts came when a bullet pierced his helmet and zipped around the inside to come out and split his nose. The second Purple Heart, she said, came from shrapnel that knocked out many of his teeth.
  
  She said her father rarely spoke about the war and never described events leading to his
  receiving the Silver Star.
  
  ‘He lost too many friends,’ she said.
  dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4414806/Clifton-James-sheriff-James-Bond-films-dies-96.html

  
  Many memorials across the Pacific share a common sentiment:
  Our brothers and sisters have died so that we may live--may we be worthy of their sacrifice.
  
  And so some things don't change. Good folk step forward and answer the call. Local heroes walk our streets, some may pass us in dapper suits or dinner jackets. We can't know their experiences and loss, but do what we can to honor them.
  
  Not to be simply maudlin, Clifton James seems to have honored his fallen comrades in life.
  Long-lived, a marriage crossing 6 decades, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren.
  The kind of success he deserved and a legacy to the fallen.
  
  
  
  One last uniform item: given circa World War II, the Honorable Discharge Badge.
  A.K.A. "The Ruptured Duck".