Spotted dikkop at Blackbrook -

Spotted dikkop at Blackbrook

It is a spotted dikkop (Burhinus capensis), also called spotted thick-knee and cape thick-knee and cape dikkop.

You're making this up - right? ha. I hope you forumers aren't taking advantage of my lack of exotic bird knowledge

It's true, honest!

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Burhinus_capensis.html

dikkop is an Afrikaans word meaning thick head.

Thick head, thick knee whoever named this bird really knows how to flatter a creature - ha