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Verreaux's Eagle

from Ensonglopedia of Animals by John Hinton

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Everybody thinks
Dinosaurs are extinct,
But some of them survived and they’re not even on the brink.
They’re just called by different words, now.
That’s right, we call them birds now.

From the owl to the stork
To the fowl to the hawk
To the wren to the quail
To the hen to the rail
To a bird of a more majestic scale…

Everybody’s heard about the bird
With talons so sharp and a beak so curved
Oooh-oooh, it’s the eagle
It’s the bird of prey with no equal

Everybody knows all
About the bald.
Our knowledge of the crowned
Is reasonably sound.
Everybody’s partial
To the martial.
Everybody is besotted
With the greater spotted.
Knowledge of the crested
Is well-attested.
We all know exactly where the wedge-tailed’s nested.
But nobody in the whole world knows
A single damn thing about the eagle called Verreaux’s.

I’m putting ignorance to rest one species at a time,
In the only way that I know how – and that’s rhyme!

Verreaux’s Eagle is entirely black
Except for two strips of white along the sides of its back,
And the odd white feather,
And a beak that is yeller.
Verreaux’s likes eating rock hyrax.
And like every other eagle they don’t go quack.

Now everybody’s heard about the bird
Whose skills are finally revered throughout the world
Oooh-oooh, Verreaux’s eagle
It can catch rock hyrax by the beak-full.
Oooh-oooh, Verreaux’s eagle
It’s the eagle with no equal.

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from Ensonglopedia of Animals, released October 15, 2018

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