For scale

An ostrich standing next to a hartebeest, which is three-plus feet tall at the shoulder.

Nairobi National Park, Kenya

Below, another of many ostriches. (And a sideways outline of a lioness head.)

When is a bird not a bird

Bird-of-Paradise (Strelitzia reginae), Nairobi, Kenya

First Bird of Kenya

Hadada Ibis, Nairobi(ish), Kenya

Meanwhile, in Australia...

...a chicken farmer named Swampy Marsh is using sheepdogs to protect Little Penguins from foxes.

Little Penguin

Beached As

Ah, noo!

                                  Gull and boats at low tide, Scarborough, ME

Video by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation