Howard Brown (Halifax Bank) he left the company. In 2017, Howard made a cameo return to the world of advertising in an advert for Hotels.com. Howard Brown (Halifax Bank) Howard Brown (born c. 1966) is a former customer services representative and sales ambassador for HBOS plc, which owned both Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank (previously the Halifax Building Society) in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his appearances in Halifax/HBOS television advertisements, often singing and dancing. He was born in Sheldon, Birmingham, and is of Barbadian descent. Brown became the star of the HBOS Marketing Campaign in 2000, which resulted in
Golden-fronted bowerbird Mountains in the Papua province of Indonesia. In December 2005, an international team of eleven scientists from the United States, Australia and Indonesia led by Bruce Beehler traveled to the unexplored areas of Foja Mountains and took the first photographs of the bird. Golden-fronted bowerbird The golden-fronted bowerbird ("Amblyornis flavifrons") is a medium-sized, approximately 24 cm long, brown bowerbird. The male is rufous brown with an elongated golden crest extending from its golden forehead, dark grey feet and buffish yellow underparts. The female is an unadorned olive brown bird. An Indonesian endemic, the male builds a tower-like ""maypole-type"" bower decorated