Side issue: I understand (a segment of a *long*-ago children's TV programme) that Gooney Birds are what happens when albatrosses land on Midway Island in the Pacific, and proceed to try to nest in the middle of the USAF air strip. (Standing orders are to pick them up and move them to the side of the runway just before Something Serious takes off or is about to land. They appear to not object to this, and usually stroll back again.)

Picture a rear-end shot, apparently in slow motion, of a huge bird trying to take off, with its feet dangling, and a nasal voice instructing: "Gooney Bird One, retract your undercarriage. I repeat: Gooney Bird One, retract your undercarriage." And at the end of the segment, when the Gooney Birds are all in the sky, "they become albatrosses again," says Johnny Morris.