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69Poem: Courtship
Courtship Bowerbird sings to his lady love: Now see what I've made you— a courting nest with leaves and flowers, with tiny shells and stones of blue, with lacy fern and foil wraps and seven shiny bottle...
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66Poem: The Chase Is On
The Chase Is On Roadrunner can fly when it cares to. Roadrunner can fly when it dares to. But it most likes to run in the bright desert sun so, lizard, beware- it might snare you!
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65Poem: Wake Up
Wake Up No rooster to wake us. We're not on a farm. But we have our very own feathered alarm. It drums before breakfast on shingle and pole. I think there's some rooster in woodpecker's soul.
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64Poem: Goldfinch
Goldfinch Soaring up. Swooping down. hooping happy round and round. Looping is the flight prefered by this roller-coaster bird.
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63Poem: Homeless
Homeless Fairy tern borrows the branch of a tree. She lays her egg at the edge- carefully! Then when her chick hatches it scritches, it scratches and tries not to fall from its no-nest-at-all.
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61Poem: Water Sprite
Water Sprite The dipper splashes, swims,and sprays. In waterfalls it spends it days. I wonder- if this bird could wish, would it prefer to be a fish?
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61Poem: Toucan Antics
Toucan Antics Playful toucan plucks a berry, tosses it to toucan two. Toucan two looks for another toucan he can toss it to. Toucan three is free to toss it to a fourth or back to one or. . . he can decide to...
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61Poem: What's That Sound ?
What's That Sound ? a scraping chair, a whistling train, a fire bell, an aeroplane, a clock alarm, a fence of crows, a goose, a gong, a blowing nose . . . Australian lyrebird can sing to sound like almost...
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60Poem: Sweet Tooth
Sweet Tooth Care for honey with your tea? Grab a spoon and follow me, chat 'a' chatters honeyguide. I know where the bees reside- south ways then toward the east. I can lead you to the feast!
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60Poem: Guess Which Bird This Is
Dizzy-dazzle thrumming bird. No bigger-than-my-thumb-ing bird. A silky, summer-strumming bird. A going-and-a-coming bird.
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