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  In Bird Brain, McQueen has woven twigs into a book with multiple pages with legible words. The text relays information about three different birds.
 The text reads:
Page 1: The night flying frogmouth hides days in plain sight by stretching out its gray bark body freezing and leaving its predator believing he sees limb when looking right at him.
Page 2: The lyrebird’s penchant for parroting makes the bush ring with counterfeit cries of woodchops, axe falls, even gears grinding, the back fire of the internal combustion engine.
Page 3: The nightjar or goatsucker is the betting bird to Aborigines, coming from the enor- mous number of cries, leaving the listener to guess the count, betting when it will end.






























































































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