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[[File:icecreamconecoot_2105.jpg|frame|Look for one of these next time you go birdwatching.]]

{{quote| Vanilla and Chocolate, lemon and lime.<br />
The Ice-Cream Cone Coot is a treat anytime. }}

''The Ice-Cream Cone Coot and Other Rare Birds'' is a 1971 children's book by Arnold Lobel (who is most well known for the ''[[Frog and Toad]]'' series). It documents a number of strange fictitious birds that resemble mundane objects. These include the Dollarbill Dodo, a bird made out of a dollar; the Safecrossing Crow, a stop light, and of course, the eponymous Ice-Cream Cone Coot. It's beautifully illustrated and whimsical, but sadly out of print.
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=== Tropes used in this work include: ===
* [[Animate Inanimate Object]]: The premise of the book.
* [[Anthropomorphic Food]]: The Ice-Cream Cone Coot.
* [[Feathered Fiend]]: The Jackknife Niffy that cuts off children's noses.
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: The birds in the book are all part avian, part inanimate object.
* [[Somewhere an Ornithologist Is Crying]]: There is no possible excuse for something part bird, part teacup. 
* [[Talking Animal]]: The Soupladle Lark, though it can only say the names of soups.

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