Did you hear the one about the duck with the meter-long penis?

Martin Scorsese may have been PBS' biggest "get" at this month's Television Critics Association meetings, but the real star was a passionate ornithologist, Dr. Kimberly Bostwick, who worked on the network's "Nature" presentation, "Deep Jungle."

Not only did she kill with her clips of dancing Manakin birds who appear to be doing a Michael Jackson-style moonwalk -- set in the show to the strains of "Thriller" -- but in discussing the many surprises inherent in serious bird-watching, she mentioned in passing that while birds don't generally have penises, there does exist a duck "with a meter-long intromittent organ."

Oddly enough, she didn't think we'd be all that interested.

"Most press revolves around...it'g got to be frightening, dangerous or big and cute and cuddly," she said. "And, you know, a one-meter-long duck penis just doesn't make it into the press."