bird-profanity

Updated: May 24, 2025

Nature has few birds or animals upon her varied list with which we would find fault, but the crow, well, having nothing to say in its favor, let us drop the subject. Parrots, paroquets, tiny indigo birds, pedorevas, and robins, yes, these are all in harmony with mingled fragrance and sunshine, but the coal-black crow, with his bad habits and hoarse bird-profanity, bah!

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