@alex i love this so much lol

@alex the text looks like Portuguese instead of Spanish. the "nh" in "Ninho" is the giveaway here :)

@alex
yo i looked up the bird and apparently they build a flap over the true entrance, and put spiderwebs into the flap so they can close it and seal it so predators can't find it at all
birds are cool

@alex oh, i'm pretty sure this is portuguese, brazillian specifically
verdadeira only has an i in portuguese, ninho would be nido, pendulino would be péndulo
and, “Ué?” is distinctly brazillian
i should know! i live there and i'm bad at spanish!

@alex @frumble Love it! After a little research I can say: it is an African Sub-Sahara bird (“Athoscopus”), but the picture is definitely from a Brazilian publication, probably a school or children’s book. This is what Wikipedia tells about the nests - they’re even more sophisticated: “Their pendulous and elaborately woven nests have false entrances above the true entrance, these in turn lead to a false chamber. The true nesting chamber is accessed by the parent opening a hidden flap, entering and then closing the flap shut again, the two sides sealing with sticky spider webs.”

@alex May the snake in your life say ué!

@alex
I had a "ué?" moment when I used the urinals in sefton park palm house (hot pink decor).

@alex I think it's in Portuguese actually.

@alex It's like an anime girl noise.
"Uueeeeeeeeee? 😮"

@alex This is portuguese btw!

@alex wait but how can the bird fit through such a tiny hole wtf

@alex like the fake holes in a bunker

@alex suspiciously phallic