Friday, August 28, 2020

White Browed Babblers

In small babbling flocks they greet the dawn of day
Quite interesting birds for to learn of one might say
They have a chattering squeaky sort of song
To the family known as babblers they do belong
Brown heads with white brows and mostly brown with breasts of palish grey
Familiar birds in their own charming way
They build an untidy nest of sticks on uprioght fork of tree
And the female lay blotched eggs of two or three
With long slender slightly curved bills they search for insects on the ground
And turn over leaf litter as they walk around
Compared to some other species of birds they do seem rather tame
And white browed babblers for them an apt name
In small family groups together they sing along
And to the babbler family they do belong.

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