On Magpie Larks

Near where humans live they are happy to stay
These birds that i hear and i see every day
Known as magpie lark or mud lark or to some as pee wee
Birds familiar to many and familiar to me

Slightly bigger than a blackbird in feathers of black and white
They feed on the ground on an insect diet
They build a cup shaped nest of mud mostly on lower branch of tree
And lay pale spotted brown eggs no more than four or no less than three

In town parks and in backyards and paddocks of the countryside
The black and white magpie larks are known Australia wide
Familiar in their appearance and familiar in their song
And once seen and once heard one cannot get them wrong

Of birds and bird ways little i can claim to know
But i do know a magpie lark from a currawong, magpie or a crow
From where humans are they are never far away
And them i do hear and do see every day.