Yeah!! You heard that right.
A falcon has been named after Stephen Colbert.
On the City Hall in San Jose, California, is the nest of the falcon family. Mayor Chuck Reed named the male falcon as “Esteban Colbert”.
Looks like he is a huge fan of the comedy star and the show The Colbert Report, hence the gesture.
Also, Esteban already seems to be living up to its new name and like Colbert is very camera friendly. For those who do not know, through FalconCam, which airs the reality show on The San Jose City Hall Peregrine Falcons have been installed by the city people, ever since the falcons came to City Hall three years ago as babies.
Now, along with mate Clara who has some sort of a long history with the males, Esteban, who appeared on the third season of the show as the new man in Clara’s life, lives on the rooftop of the City Hall. The couple is expecting a chick as well.
Ever since, it was known to all that Carlos, Clara’s earlier beau with whom she had three children in 2008, will not be coming back, speculations were escalating to check whether a new guy would come in her life or not. Her first beau was Jose Fernando, with whom also she had three chicks.
Let me quote here the Mayor himself,
“I’m delighted that Esteban Colbert appeared at City Hall this week and that he and Clara are hitting it off ………….. Like the City Hall falcons, the original Colbert has proven that with primitive instincts and sharp talons anyone can survive in modern society.”
Aye Aye Mayor!!!
And this is not the first wild bird or animal to have been named after the famous host of the famous show. Infact, this is the third. Before this, in 2006 a bald eagle was named Stephen Jr. by the breeders at the San Francisco Zoo.
More recently, in Santa Cruz, last month, research people at the University of California, named a pair of elephant seals as Stelephant Colbert and Jon Sealwart, the second one named after, Jon Stewart who happens to be a colleague of Colbert at the show.
Now what can be better then this? After an ice cream flavor, now animals are being named after him.
Tags: Honors, Stephen Colbert
