This is Bird Noir.

I'm Michael Stein, Private Eye.

I have this friend, Danny.

Talks fast, sometimes gets a little mixed up.

He called me the other day, Bird Emergency.

Michael, you gotta help me.

There was a blue boy in my backyard.

Boy, I never seen a boy that blue.

But now, he's up and vanished. Gone, I never seen a boy that blue. But now, you've been vanished. Gone.

Presto, kaput. What happened? Where'd he go, Michael?

Slow down, Danny. Run that back. You say this bird was a blue bird, or was it a bird that's blue?

Oh, gee, I never thought about that before. What's the difference?

There's plenty of blue colored birds out there

that aren't true blue birds, which are members of the Thrush family. Maybe you saw Blue Jay,

large bird, tall crest on its head? No way. This was a small boy with a round head. Interesting.

Was the tail wedge shapes? Maybe you had a tree swallow. Nah, that tail was thin and straight, Michael.

Got it. Was the belly a different color?

Lighter blue might point to a mountain bluebird or red to an eastern or western bluebird.

Nah, I wouldn't notice that. This boy was dog blue all over.

Except the wings. They got black bars on them.

And, you know, there was this other boy hanging around.

It was all brown.

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