What is the area of the bird, shown below?
Hint: There are two equal semicircles representing the wings, one semicircle representing the head, one quarter of circle representing the body (with a radius equal to the diameter of the head) and one quarter of circle representing the tail.
Thanks to Paulo Ferro for this puzzle - you can find it in his new geometry puzzle book: Birds, Bees and Burgers. You can find out more about it at his new website EnigMaths.
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