Amid gnarled tea trees, visitors glimpse the nesting sites of ibis, spoonbills and, if they are lucky, magnificent brolgas, a water bird larger than a crane.

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"I feel like a fish out of water, " Bird added.

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It would be made by the Welsh sculptor John Meirion Morris and looks like a mythical bird rising out of the water.

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Starting with small projects, such as a water-treatment system for Singapore's bird zoo, she gradually got bigger and better projects.

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He was widely praised after Thursday's forced water landing, apparently caused by a "double bird strike, " which crippled the plane's engines.

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When I arrived, it was quitting time, and one of them was naked, giving himself a bird bath from a bucket of soapy water.

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"I don't know why everyone says that about my work, " replied the 77-year-old Mr. Graves, who famously decorated the Walt Disney headquarters with a frieze of seven dwarfs and topped an Alessi teakettle with a red bird that tweets an alert when the water boils.

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His laundry list of bad judgment includes: a failed drug test, bankruptcy, Ron Mexico, flipping the bird at fans, getting stopped at the airport with a water bottle containing a hidden compartment that launched a classic SNL skit and of course operating an illegal dog-fighting operation.

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"If you don't have a fountain in your garden, at least place a bird bath on the ground so rabbits and other creatures can have a water source, " she says.

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