The Hornero Bird is a scrapped animated short that was going to be a segment from The Three Caballeros. It was going to be a story about an unusual South American bird called a "hornero" (commonly known in English sources as "ovenbird") who builds a nest of mud resembling a clay oven, but was eventually scrapped. Two versions of the storyboard were created with narration for the segment being recorded during development of the segment. The deleted short somehow ended up in the Laserdisc release of The Three Caballeros in the Disney's Exclusive Archive Collection's two-movie edition on Side Three of the Laserdisc.
Summary[]
Centered around a hornero in Uruguay, the short tells a story about the titular protagonist who goes into several predicaments due to him being near-sighted. The short would have began with him with his courtship, marriage, and birth of his son. After their marriage with his wife, the hornero accidentally flies into a sack of wine, causing him to be drunk and disappointing his wife and child. The short was going to be narrated by Sterling Holloway (who narrated The Cold-Blooded Penguin in the final version of the film), but only the final section of his narration survived, causing much of the audio telling the short's plot to be lost.
Trivia[]
- A hornero bird does appear in the final version of The Three Caballeros in The Flying Gauchito segment as a very minor background character as one of the characters seen throughout the story. However, this character is unrelated to the hornero protagonist seen in the scrapped Hornero Bird short.
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