As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Thursday 30 August 2018

St Albans mural aims to brighten up area and raise money for rare birds



PUBLISHED: 09:00 18 August 2018
Anne Suslak

A mural has been painted outside a tuition centre in St Albans to raise money for rare birds in the Galápagos Islands.
Bright Young Things, at 12 Ridgmont Road, organised to have the mural of blue-footed boobies and flamingoes painted across the side of the centre to raise money to protect the endangered boobies’ island home.
Woody Webster, director of the centre, said: “We had a white wall outside Bright Young Things, and we wanted to brighten the area up. We’ve had people walking in saying ‘we love your wall’.
“I designed it and got a painter to paint it. The blue booby is such a rare creature and it’s only in a really small part of the world.”
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