"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"--more eisvogel cleverness

[Mark Kohut]

eisvogel means Kingfisher bird.....
Here is from "English Folklore" found online[Answers.com] with definitions of kingfisher:
 
 
kingfisher 
A piece of erroneous ‘natural history’ once common was that if a dried kingfisher is hung up indoors, it swings round till the beak points towards the quarter from which the wind is blowing. ‘The belief still survives among the credulous,’ remarked one observer (N&Q 7s:12 (1891), 218), and Edward Lovett saw one in use in Arundel (Sussex) in the 1920s which supposedly turned one way in fine weather, and the other way during rain (Lovett, 1928: 26).

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Großer Eisvogel 
Der Große Eisvogel (Limenitis populi) ist ein Schmetterling (Tagfalter) aus der Familie der Edelfalter (Nymphalidae). 
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Schmetterling: Schmetterling 
The Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling (German for Butterfly) was a German surface-to-air missile project developed during World War II. There was also an air-to-air version.The operator used a telescopic sight and a joystick to guide the missile by radio control. 
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