The Cagou of New Caledonia

OK, occasionally, I get outside of Arizona. This is a 360 degree panorama of the jungle in New Caledonia. The bird is real and is called a Kagu or Cagou (in French).


Cagou New Caledonia in New Caledonia

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the bird:

The Kagu (French: Cagou), Rhynochetos jubatus, is a long-legged blue-greyish bird endemic to the dense mountain forests of New Caledonia. It is the only surviving member of the family Rhynochetidae, although a second, larger species of the genus Rhynochetos, the Lowland Kagu Rhynochetos orarius, has been described from Holocene subfossil remains. It is almost flightless, and builds a ground nest of sticks, laying a single egg. It has proved vulnerable to introduced predators, and is threatened with extinction. The remote habitat and rarity of this species mean that little is known of its habits.

By the way, the one "walking Arizona" is me and I think about a lot of things including birds in New Caledonia.