I have blogged photos of a bird standing atop a turtle not once but twice before. (Here we see another example of a Ring-billed Gull with a Red-bellied Turtle.) I am starting to think that this sort of situation is not all that uncommon.
An internet search reveals that a bird (and in particular a crane) standing on a turtle is a common theme in sculpture. I suppose that I should post some pictures of these sculptures, but I don’t have the energy to do that.
