Today's Bird- the Mockingbird
A Sound in Darwinian History
~~🦉🐦🐦⬛🪶 ~This is my continuing daily series that explores the avian world one bird at a time. "I would like to paint the way the world sings." -- Claude Monet 🦅🕊️~~
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Island to island
they varied in appearance
Charles Darwin noticed
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theorizing the
transmutation of species
hence: evolution
Mimicking the sounds
of insects and other birds
singing late into the night
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even past midnight
Symbolic of purity
innocence destroyed
______________Bolt⚡
Note how varied their song is.
They are fiercely protective of their hatchlings, seeing humans as a threat.
About the Creator
Lightning Bolt ⚡
Bolt ⚡ aka Bill↬bizarre bisexual bipolar alliterative epileptic sexy ♒Aquarian retired superhero. Author of humor, poetry, sci fi & horror.
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