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I'm rather pleased with this. I think it meets the description reasonably well, and has the right sort of slightly silly ostrich look:


“The Martian wasn't a bird, really. It wasn't even bird-like, except just at first glance. It had a beak all right, and a few feathery appendages, but the beak wasn't really a beak. It was somewhat flexible; I could see the tip bend slowly from side to side; it was almost like a cross between a beak and a trunk. It had four-toed feet, and four-fingered things—hands, you'd have to call them, and a little roundish body, and a long neck ending in a tiny head—and that beak. It stood an inch or so taller than I..."

And here's another form of alien life pointed out by [livejournal.com profile] ramtops

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