why birds?

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"Any given day, up to four hundred billion 

individual birds may be found 

flying, soaring, swimming, hopping, or 

otherwise flitting about the earth. 

That's more than fifty birds for every human being, 

one thousand birds per dog, and at least a 

half-million birds for every living elephant. 

It's more than four times the number of 

McDonald's hamburgers than have ever been sold."

- from Feathers by Thor Hanson

And indeed, that's a lot of birds, 
roughly 10,000 species worldwide,
out there, each and every day 
for us to watch, take solace in, be enamored by,
and there is perhaps nothing more emblematic 
of the absolute joy of being alive than a bird.

Oh, to be in the rainforests of New Guinea
to see this superb one dance!

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