A Gyro Question?

[Willem Hajenius]

> Just what IS Gyro Gearloose's race?

This issue popped up from time to time in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly too, as a reader's letter, in
which the editors always (AFAIK) replied Gyro is a crane (Dutch 'kraanvogel'). Given the current
discussion in which at the time of writing no clear-cut answer has yet been found, I wonder whether
the Dutch editors just made it up long ago, to have something to say should the question arise? Or
did they really have a good reason for their answer?

Alexander.