Regent Honeyeaters

Within their range in south eastern Australia birds once plentiful to view
But where there were many there now is so few
Regent honeyeaters quite beautiful birds of mostly dark, gold and grey
Are among the endangered in Australia today
Climate Change, bush fires and destruction of their habitat reasons they have become rare
Bird watchers of their declining numbers are well aware
Extinction from their kind may not be far away
And this indeed does seem a sad thing to say
In cup nest of bark and grass on fork of branch of tree
The female lay pink brown dotted eggs of two or three
Distinctive in their appearance and their metallic clinking song
Among the rare fauna of Australia they now do belong
On the brink of extinction it is obviously clear
Since their numbers are on the decrease every year.