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Where can we see a 'bird' delivering another 'bird'?

As usual, album and page please.

In the Unicorn (p.42-C4), a cuckoo clock starts singing after one of the Bird brothers made much noise by shooting a bullet onto a gong, in Marlinspike's chapel.

Is that what you meant, Ranko?

Nice try yamilah, but incorrect on this occasion.

Keep looking... :-)

In The Castafiore Emerald (p.9-C3), the Milanese Nightingale delivers a present to the Captain: Iago the parrot.

It really is a simple as the question seems. :-)
You've found a 'bird' delivering a bird.

Here's a clue. Refer to my last answer to Q:107...

yamilah has one of the 'birds' correct.

Well, following at your clue's reference to Q107, I see that in Picaros, Castafoire, the Milanese Nightingale is delivered to Tapiocapolis airport by another of those Boeing 707s (prior to her becoming a jail-bird!) Maybe certain types of this plane had a bird-like marketing name (in the way that certain other types of the 707 were called V-jets). Or maybe you simply mean the plane is a 'bird' because planes and airliners are sometimes refered to as 'birds' or 'big birds' by pilots and aviation people. Am I close, or on the wrong track?

Or maybe the car in which Castafoire arrives in The Castafoire Emerald has a bird-like name.

Or maybe you mean she is due to 'deliver' a performance of The Theiving Magpie after she leaves. (Not that she's likely to be playing the tital role , which is a dancer's part, I think.)

All these answers seem just a bit vague. Am I close with my first guess?

You've got it, Balthazar. Well done!

This does occur in Picaros
The first 'bird' was indeed the Santaero Boeing 707 (Yes, called 'birds' in the aviation world) that delivers the second 'bird' (The Milanese Nightingale) to Tapiocapolis.

Well worked out. A point to you and a "nearly but not quite" to yamilah.

I'm sorry but I feel these questions are getting a bit abstract, hardly Tintin trivia!

R

jockosjungle
I'm sorry but I feel these questions are getting a bit abstract, hardly Tintin trivia!
But these are trivia questions jockosjungle. All of the answers are there to be found in the series. I'm sorry you feel that way and granted, the questions have become a little esoteric lately, but we really don't want to go down the path of, for example "What insurance company does Wagg work for?" "What is Cutts the butchers phone number" The more questions that get asked, the more we have to think a little laterally.

Cheers
Ranko