Heron
Still. Stalk. Strike.
Still. Stalk. Strike.
White in winter, black-tipped always
From forest jewels to gamefield sprinters
Small body. Big whistle. Bigger grit.
Strapped for the ice, built for the surf
Old shells, living rivers
Two eyes, one side-seafloor masters
Born in water, gone in a day
Big colony. Bigger crest.
Borrowed shells, bold lives
Forceps, night-life, and fierce mothering
Spring's frogspawn maker
Masters of the lek and the snow
Dance, Trumpet, Migrate
One class, a thousand ways to snail.
Skating predators of the surface film
All the lizard-none of the legs.
Small birds, big social networks
Built for the Ice Age grasslands
Built to ambush, born to bite.
Small penguin. Big cliff-hopper energy.
Macquarie's white-faced crested king
Yellow brows, ocean pros.
White-capped speedster of the South
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