Flip the lost honeyeater

This poster has boogled me for the months and months in has been up near my work.

Fie months have gone past and I don’t think Flip is still a half sized baby, but I have spotted hundreds of honeyeaters around the area in varying sizes. Every single one of them looks like the bird in the photo.

So what makes this one bird stand out? She’s friendly the poster claims, which is definitely true of most hand reared birds. Unfortunately for Flip’s owners it also seems to be true of wild honeyeaters I’ve encountered in Sydney, especially the ones which sit outside my window at work and gawk at me.

Until tonight I thought this poster was a joke, some art school kid setting up a massive honeyeater conspiracy where every bird could be “Flip”. People frantically trying to catch birds as they swoop too close so they can be returned to their owner.

However curisoty + the internet has killed my imagination. I hope Flip is safe and has found her way home by now. I would be very sad if Starkey and Larry had left.