The bird on the cover of "Learning CFEngine 3"
Mar 26, 2012 · 1 minute read · Commentsbooknewsnewzealandtui A lot of people have asked me about the bird on the cover of the book, and I had to admit I didn't know. Unfortunately, the book (even in the print version) does not include a description of the cover in the Colophon, like most other O'Reilly books. But today I got the information directly from Karen Montgomery at O'Reilly, who designed the cover:
The bird is a Tui, a kind of bird that leaves in New Zealand, also known as a Parson Bird. Here's a photo of a real Tui bird:
(photo by Matt Binns, reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)