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A Few of the Birds I Love


The barn swallow’s flight, the mocking bird’s song, the cardinal’s color, and the hummingbird’s character.

To birds, his behavior must be the same as rolling coal or revving a Harley, the sort of obnoxious machismo that men of most species feel driven to when young and unmated. If you are rusty on identifying any of your neighborhood birds by call, he offers a pop quiz every morning, albeit with no answers and no grades. One would not imagine such drama in the life of a tiny puff ball with a comically large beak whose squeaks are nearly too high pitched to hear.

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