So here it is: the absolute best screenshot I could get of last nights big green bird that shrieked like some sort of pterodactyl. I couldn't get anything good from my DVR. I had to purchase the iTMS copy of the show and open the file in Quicktime, so that I could step frame by frame through the section. Clearly, it was a moment of computer-generated green birdiness last night, but what type of bird? The green made me think of the eagle on American currency, but that seems a stretch, even for this bizarre show. I played with the image some in Photoshop. I'm no expert, by any means, but check after the jump for some more pictures...
In this one I basically removed as much color as possible from the surrounding scenery.
Here, I cropped the image, sharpened the bird, and played with the curves a bit. Looks like some kind of hawk to me. What do you think?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
5-25-2006 @ 6:27PM
Akbar Fazil said...
I guess im in the camp of, so what? It's a bird, in a tropical jungle. No big deal.
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5-25-2006 @ 6:52PM
Jeremy said...
Sure it's just a "bird in a tropical jungle"... but it's a bird in a tropical jungle that SPOKE!!! It clearly said hurley twice.
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5-25-2006 @ 7:01PM
Bubbawest said...
I think you need to get a life. Seriously, I'm telling you this because I'm concerned about you. Get help.
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5-25-2006 @ 7:20PM
Henry Casey said...
The show's producers Cuse & Lideloff have commented on this bird in their official lost podcast. It is, The Hurley Bird. It did say "Hurley."
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5-25-2006 @ 7:30PM
Jake said...
Maybe the bird is out for vengeance since its friend the green frog/toad was killed by Sawyer with Hurley's assistance. I think this bird maybe the key to the island.
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5-25-2006 @ 8:04PM
masteric said...
I think that maybe this has something do with hurley's flashback in season 3. Remember how we saw kate's black horse, or jack's dad? Maybe Hurley saw this thing before he went to the island?
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5-25-2006 @ 8:06PM
tommy said...
yeah im sure the type of bird doesnt make a difference, i think we should just think about why in the world it said hurley
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5-25-2006 @ 8:11PM
Dr.Funbags said...
Also - this is the Only bird on the Island - it has been noted, and mentioned on the podcast that the jungle island has no birds - save one - the Hurley bird.
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5-25-2006 @ 9:26PM
Albus Dumbledore said...
Don't forget we also saw and heard this bird at the end of season one, as they were hiking out to the Black Rock. At that point, I believe Hurley also asked if the bird said his name.
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5-25-2006 @ 9:57PM
Will said...
There was another bird shown in "THe Other 48 Days." The chicken that the "tailees" were chasing down.
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5-26-2006 @ 12:06AM
LH said...
But the real question is, did the Hurley bird catch the worm?
(sorry)
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5-26-2006 @ 12:44AM
kimmi said...
This may be a stretch but over here we kind-of have a theory about some of the animals. Kate's black horse representing the father she killed, Sawyer's boar representing the man he killed. Why can't this bird represent Libby for Hurley. Oh course, this theory is out the door if the bird was seen before in season one.
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5-26-2006 @ 2:39AM
javier said...
Here in Texas, that would be a Turkey Vulture, but, err,
green. Featherless head, large wings for gliding.
BTW, it is a carrion feeder, feeds on the dead.
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5-26-2006 @ 9:39AM
Ian said...
My goodness!
Doesn't anyone else notice that the bird's "face" looks like "Dave"?
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5-26-2006 @ 10:20AM
j said...
Doesn't the statue with the four toes resemble a bird's foot? just an observation.
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5-26-2006 @ 1:04PM
Tim said...
Nope. Doesn't look like a bird's foot at all in my opinion.
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5-26-2006 @ 1:43PM
Gordy said...
Looks like Fred Flintstone's foot.
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5-26-2006 @ 9:39PM
eric said...
so... wiki says it looks like a Kea bird. and i think theres a story about like, the legends of the kea. it tells of a giant shadow cast across the land ( maybe the monster ) because the bird is mad at everyone because they have done wrong.. i dunno, i can't remember the rest of the story.. and maybe thats a little too far fetched... even for lost.
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5-31-2006 @ 4:31AM
Jenniluna said...
*BOL* @ #11
Love a good pun...
and I didn't remember it being at the end of the first season... now we have to remember to look for it at the end of the next one!
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5-31-2006 @ 5:08AM
Jungle Orchid said...
Hey, Javier in Texas,
Your comment may have some credence in relation to Hurley's obsessive eating and the carrion feeder.
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