Bird on albumcover

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Marianne
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Bird on albumcover

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Hi!
I wonder if anyone know what the bird on the cover to the Recent Songs and The Future-album stands for?
I think it would be a very nice tattoo.
:D
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Marianne,

The bird is a hummingbird (kolibri in Dutch...). Check out this discussion earlier:
viewtopic.php?t=8093

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Post by Marianne »

Thanks for you help!
I actually read Beautiful Losers some months ago, but obviously I didn’t pay that much attention to the hummingbird. But now that you mention it, I think I’ve read somewhere that the hummingbird is like Leonard’s favourite animal??
Since Leonard’s my “favourite animal” :wink: I think I’ve just decided that the “Cohen hummingbird” will be my next tattoo. :D
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