They were bringing coconuts to England because the swallows weren't big enough to do so.
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If I were a filmmaker, I’d be so tempted to troll the ornithologists by putting in, say, a faint but distinctly recognisable kookaburra call in a scene in the Peloponnesian Wars or something. And add another layer of trolling by having the scene filmed somewhere where there are no kookaburras.
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Here's the thing. You said the common loon is a North American bird...
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Alas, they're the universal spooky bird. They show up in fucking Avengers Endgame.
This is my curse, as well. Your film is set in the desert surrounding ancient Egypt. WHY ARE THERE CACTI?
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Watch Deadpool vs Wolverine. The entire woods scene was so clearly filmed in a European woodland, it ruins the whole film.
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I'll give you one Canadian dollar for each Loon call you can find in a film not set somewhere that Loonies are endemic.
I have no idea of this person is expert enough to tell the difference, but there are loon species in Europe that sound pretty similar to the common loon.
For anyone wondering, yes it is exactly that bird sound you are thinking of:
The ornithology police are always on duty
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CinemaSins would be proud.
You're all complaining about the minutest detail, but if you watch the 1965 film Battle of the Bulge, you'd have aneurism. A battle famously occured in Europe during one of the coldest snowy winter, and the finale was filmed on dry semi-arid landscape. The Allies used M4 Sherman tanks in larger numbers, but the film used M24 Chaffees as if they were more ubiquitous. You don't need to be nerd on WWII but having the basic knowledge of conflict would make one cringe of the film's deliberate errors. Ridley Scott's Napoleon was somehow more tolerable and given a pass because Scott never intended the film to be taken aa seriously.
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