At EG'08, Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It's an entertaining adventure through the mind of a creative obsessive.

The demand for exotic meats (such as ostrich and other game meat and venison) is also growing.

Birds fly. Birds and angels.

Little birdie, pretty little birdie

That's a blackbird. Under the blackbird.

Baloo... birds of a feather should flock together.

We now call them non avian dinosaurs and avian dinosaurs.

I want it to feed the birds.

Archaeopteryx, which is a bird, a primitive bird, still has that very primitive hand.

Bird.

Avian dinosaurs are our modern birds.

No, I won't! I want it to feed the birds.

Fiddlesticks, boy! Feed the birds and what have you got? Fat birds!

The feather was on the bed The bed was on the feather

Bird Tweet

Birds.

Birds Chirping Birds Chirping

Bird Screeching

Bird Screeches

Don't be mad, young fellow?

Mynah birds talk, you know.

So for instance, most of the birds in this picture are migratory birds.

A bird on the wing finds something, while those who sit still only find death.

But what was really interesting to me was to find out that the birds were adapting in a pretty unusual way.

Free Bird.

A bird can fly.

Thornbird

birds for sale.

Birds for sale.

California.

Lovebirds.

Lovebirds, sir ? Yes.

You did say birds ?

Against birds !

Crows.

Zavoudi?

Zavoudi.

Zavoudi.

Nightingales.

And this guy, the roller, a rather beautiful bird.

And when the whole flock migrated to the south, one small but proud bird said

Bee eaters eat bees. This one has a nice blue cheek.

A crazy bird, chasing after prizes as big as... birdseed.

What is a bird?

To kill two birds with one stone.