Patent ID: 8151512

Claim:
A flying bird replica comprising: an elongated body resembling a bodily form of a bird, said body having a top surface, two sides and a transverse cord-receiving slot said slot having two opposing planar side walls and a floor, said side walls extending downwardly from the top surface of said body and between the two sides thereof, said floor extending between said side walls, and a pair of detachable wing members extending from said sides, each said wing member having a proximate portion having an inner face, said inner face abutting one of the sides of the body, said wing members interconnected by a stretchable cord disposed below said top surface in said slot, said cord having an unstretched state and a stretched state, in said unstretched state the maximum separation between the inner faces of said wing members is less than a distance between the sides of said body, in said stretched state said cord pulling said wing members together, wherein, when the inner faces of said wing members are in abutting relation with the sides of said body, said cord is in said stretched state such that said wing members are urged by said cord toward each other and against the sides of said body.