Word: bulbul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find something appropriate for this gigantic cuckoo clock to sing, experts combed zoos and aviaries. At the home of Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society, they thought they had found what they wanted: an East Indian bulbul named Greenie, who had been adopted by the bird-loving Osborns as a pet. Greenie was a magnificent singer, with a voice of extraordinary range. But he was so temperamental (he did his best singing in the bathroom while the water was running) that the idea had to be dropped. Engineers compromised on another Osborn pet: a Mexican nightingale (Myadestes...