White Winged Choughs

 Black birds of average size with slightly curved bills  and red eyes

Distinctive in their appearance and their distinctive calls and cries

In a cup shaped mud nest the breeding female two to five brown dotted eggs lay

And the whole family on raising the young a part does play

The white primary feathers when they are on the ground and perched on branches hidden from the eye

But becomes quite visible as they do fly

They find their food on insects when they are on the ground

And they can be quite noisy whilst slowly walking around

That white winged choughs sometimes steal a young male from their neighbours among ornithologists is widely known

Nature for keeping the breeding of wild species pure has ways of her own

The stolen male with the breeding female is the only one who is allowed for to mate

On this way purity of breed they do create

White winged choughs have a patchy distribution they are not to be seen Nationwide

In south eastern Australia only in certain woods they do reside

They are family oriented birds of them one can say

And are quite interesting in their own way.