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    Nigel, the world's loneliest bird, dies next to the concrete decoy he loved

    Nigel, the world's loneliest bird, dies next to the concrete decoy he loved

    This article is well worth the read.

    I hope Nigel died of old age and not from something else. But despite how the article frames the story, I am not sure the bird was upset with his lot in life.

    Nigel, a handsome gannet bird who lived on a desolate island off the coast of New Zealand, died suddenly this week. Wherever his soul has landed, the singles scene surely cannot be worse.

    The bird was lured to Mana Island five years ago by wildlife officials who, in hopes of establishing a gannet colony there, had placed concrete gannet decoys on cliffsides and broadcast the sound of the species’ calls. Nigel accepted the invitation, arriving in 2013 as the island’s first gannet in 40 years. But none of his brethren joined him.


    In the absence of a living love interest, Nigel became enamored with one of the 80 faux birds. He built her — it? — a nest. He groomed her “chilly, concrete feathers . . . year after year after year,” the Guardian reported. He died next to her in that unrequited love nest, the vibrant orange-yellow plumage of his head contrasting, as ever, with the weathered, lemony paint of hers.


    “Whether or not he was lonely, he certainly never got anything back, and that must have been [a] very strange experience,” conservation ranger Chris Bell, who also lives on the island, told the paper. “I think we all have a lot of empathy for him, because he had this fairly hopeless situation.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Nigel, the world's loneliest bird, dies next to the concrete decoy he loved

    This article is well worth the read.

    I hope Nigel died of old age and not from something else. But despite how the article frames the story, I am not sure the bird was upset with his lot in life.




    What a sad story.
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    Really sad, they suck for luring him there then keeping him there
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    Granny says...

    ... dat story is...

    ... for the birds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Really sad, they suck for luring him there then keeping him there
    I assume he could have flown to a different location if he wanted to.
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    Poor guy. But, sounds like he was happy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I assume he could have flown to a different location if he wanted to.
    He may have been a teenager when he arrived there and didn't know the way to the usual nesting grounds. He was a castaway.
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    That sounds sad. Hopefully he was content with the situation.

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    Nigel...

    ... the teenaged...

    ... castaway.

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