About: Britainy Spear

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The Britainy Spear (britanniay hasta), a sea-bird native to Great Britain, France, and the Channel, is the largest known bird by at least one ostrich. The average adult grows to a size of a moving van, give or take a wheel-well, and eats its own weight in food every 48 hours. The Britainy Spear has no natural enemies, and even less friends. The Spear comes equipped with an extra pair of wings so when it decides to go somewhere, there it goes, no matter what.

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rdfs:label	Britainy Spear
rdfs:comment	The Britainy Spear (britanniay hasta), a sea-bird native to Great Britain, France, and the Channel, is the largest known bird by at least one ostrich. The average adult grows to a size of a moving van, give or take a wheel-well, and eats its own weight in food every 48 hours. The Britainy Spear has no natural enemies, and even less friends. The Spear comes equipped with an extra pair of wings so when it decides to go somewhere, there it goes, no matter what.
dcterms:subject	UnBestiary Birds Environment of the United Kingdom
abstract	The Britainy Spear (britanniay hasta), a sea-bird native to Great Britain, France, and the Channel, is the largest known bird by at least one ostrich. The average adult grows to a size of a moving van, give or take a wheel-well, and eats its own weight in food every 48 hours. The Britainy Spear has no natural enemies, and even less friends. The Spear comes equipped with an extra pair of wings so when it decides to go somewhere, there it goes, no matter what. Sometimes the Britainy Spear will land in the middle of a town square. Then all hell breaks loose. At other times it will fly west in winter and east in summer, not making any sense whatsoever but visiting several exotic new places on each lap. Like Jersey, or Wales, or Borrowdale in the Lake District on its bi-annual sunny day. There are no other Britainy Spears aside from the two-hundred plus mating-pairs which live in the United Kingdom and France. Not even in jest have any of them expressed an interest in being anywhere else, not even in zoos, who won't have them. Most people have learned to keep out of its way, but sometimes a few unlucky souls get speared and quickly eaten. This cannot be helped, as the Spear is protected by the 1989 UK Endangered Species Protocol, which was signed by Prince Philip, some micks and Scots, and the old gal. So if a Spear comes along and lands next to someone, all they can do is play dodge-bird and hope Lady Luck is randy that day. If they live, they tell the tale of their close call to their chums at the pub. If they don't survive they have nothing to brag about.

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