Notas del episodio
21: Chapter 23. Kehaar
21.1 Burrowkeeping
A couple of mistakes from last week.
I got the Chapter number wrong. It was Chapter 22 not 21. I have corrected the episode title and notes. I also referred to Hazel as Holly a couple of times.
21.2 Chroicocephalus ridibundus or the Black-headed Gull
The back-headed gull is a small gull. They have red beaks, as opposed to the yellow/orange beaks of larger white-headed seagull species. The black head is actually dark brown and moults in winter, leaving a patch behind each eye.
Although Kehaar has been portrayed on film as keeping his black head throughout the story, there is actually a clear reference to his head moulting during the course of this chapter, leaving just a brown patch behind each eye.
Can these gulls moult prematurely if they don't get to mate? Or did Adam's make a mistake by ha ...
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