I looked up pictures of both (sadly, there are no colour plates in this book) and observed that while the crow looked very smart and capable, Pierce Brosnan-era Bond in terms of looks, the kagu would appear to have been designed by someone who had been given the brief “make a ridiculously daft-looking bird”. Meanwhile, also in New Caledonia, there exists the flightless kagu, a bird so stupid that it runs towards predators.
I distinctly recall thinking that I was not at all confident I could have worked it out myself. Y ou may remember seeing a short BBC film a few years ago in which a New Caledonian crow, known as “007”, navigated an eight-stage puzzle in order to retrieve a piece of meat.
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