But it is only a glimpse, and before I know it the little bird has flown away.

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The company's light-weight "Little Bird" helicopters, with gunmen hanging out the side doors, are a familiar icon of Blackwater's presence in Baghdad.

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The message of this remarkable work seems to be that while the country strives to reach the stature of a mythical bird, the everyday reality of indigenous peoples is little better than that of insects.

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God Bless you and may the bird of Paradise fly just a little higher while you stand on your soapbox tomorrow.

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Little is known about the dodo, a famous flightless bird thought to have become extinct in the 17th Century.

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The producers were reportedly this close to casting a couple of six-footers as Bird and Magic and filling out the cast with little people.

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They had little to do with Big Bird, binders full of women and bayonets, despite the fact that these sound bites blew up on social media.

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He would tread, a little bird-like man with hands folded and head bowed, along narrow paths that threaded through the jungle-forests of central Cambodia.

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Ostrich farmers point out that the flesh of their eccentric bird has half as much fat as chicken, lots of iron, and very little cholesterol - as well as being extremely tasty.

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