Potential Titles: Birds [category]

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Albatross.

Avian:
Prayed to avian gods we don't believe in - Keith Taylor "Acolytes in the Bird-While"

Barn Swallow:
The barn swallows' sharp flight and cry - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Bird.

Bittern:
Take a string to a bittern's back - Katie Ford "The Throats of Guantanamo"

Heard the bitterns call from ruined palace-wall - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"

As curlew, hern, and bittern pass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

The brown bittern speaks in the bog - "A Sleep Song" transl. by P.H. Pearse

Blackbird.

Bluebird.

Bluejay.

Bobolink:
A town full of busy bobolinks - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "A Little Goldenhead"

A bobolink left the bloom of a tree - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Story of a Rose"

Nor the bobolink's trill the less laughs - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Bulfinch:
The bulfinch marks me stealing by - C.S. Calverley "Sad Memories"

Buzzard.

Cactus Wren:
the cactus wren finished the lightning - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

Canadian Geese:Mysteriously enlisted in a V formation of Canadian geese - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"

Canary:
The blue canary of my country - Ilya Kaminsky "4 a.m. Bombardment"

I would sing as the canary passes - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"

Cardinal:
The flash of cardinal in the reeds - Chelsea B. DesAutels "Annual Migration"

The burden of the cardinal virtues - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Cardinals flying straight up - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"

Chaffinch:
Laugh at chaffinch and at primroses - Robert Graves "Not Dead"

Chickadee:
A lone chickadee undaunted - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

A chickadee's feather on a snowflake - dg nanouk okpik "Spring Thaw"

That would scare a chickadee - Walter S. Percy "Cherries"

The green haunts of the chickadee - Alexander Posey "Spring in Tulwa Thloco"

Only the chickadee chirrups his song alone - Mary N. Prescott "Where?" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Chicken.

Cock:
Woe to the cock who strutteth on ice - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Cockatoo:
The green freedom of a cockatoo - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

Condor.

Cormorant.

Corncrake:
Call of the corncrake, cuckoo, or crane - credited to an emigrant named MacAmbrois "The Exile's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Crane.

Crow.

Cuckoo.

Curlew.

Dodo:
The dwelling place for other dodos - Monica de la Torre "View from a Dodo Chair"

As famous as the pterodactyl or the dodo - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"

The demise of the dodo - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"

Dove.

Drake:
Where the wood drake rests in his beauty - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

Duck.

Eagle.

Egret.

Emu:
A lullaby of ostriches and emus - Deborah Ruddell "Penguin's Lullaby"

Falcon.

Field Sparrow:
One field sparrow song down-falling - Janet Kauffman "Air Here"

Finch.

Firebird:
The storm that douse the firebird - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"

Flamingo.

Fledge/Fledgling.

Flicker:
First flicker drumming on a dead ash - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Fowl.

Gander:
These moonmad swans and ecstatic ganders - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"

And all the ganders flee - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 35: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Gannet:
As gannets when the fish are due - John Masefield "The 'Wanderer'"

Geese/Goose.

Goldfinch:
Build a perch for the goldfinch - Rachel Barenblat "Open"

Goldfinches one by one will drop - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Goldfinches tumbling across the lawn - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

And even the goldfinches have given up - Teresa J. Scollon "Untitled"

Gosling:
The happy clatter of little goslings - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 225: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

When every little gosling sings - A.D.T. Whitney "Brahmic"

Grackle:
Sends the grackles into cedars - Frank Stanford "The Solitude of Historical Analysis"

Gray Owl:
Only the frogs and the gray owl know - Don Marquis "In the Bayou"

Great Horned Owl:
Awakened by a great horned owl - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"

Great horned owls have not returned to the heron rookery - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"

Gull/Seagull.

Hawk.

Hen.

Heron.

Honey-Bird:
The honey-birds pipe to the budding figs - Sarojini Naidu "Spring"

House Finch:
House finch weaving its song - Terry Blackhawk "Maumee, Maumee"

Hummingbird.

Ibis:
The Ibis yet returns - Duncan Anderson "Sport"

Stitched by hungry ibises - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"

Jackdaw:
My jackdaw Muse of the rebel and dark - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

The jackdaw's noisy company - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

The chattering jackdaw builds - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Jay.

Junco:
Jays and juncos rallied to see - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"

Dark capped juncos hidden in dense foliage - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Garden"

Kestrel:
Blowing the poising kestrel over - John Masefield "On Malvern Hill"

Kingbird:
As kingfishers catch fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"

The kingbird and the pensive thrush are fled - Archibald Lampman "September"

Kingfisher.

Kite.

Lapwing:
Where lapwings float at rest - Herbert Randall "The Angelus of Plymouth Woods"

Through startled lapwings now we run - Mary Webb "Market Day"

Encumbered with the shriek of lapwings - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver

Lark.

Linnet.

Loon.

Lyrebird:
Lyrebird speaking stolen words - Amari Low "Themself"

Macaw:
A fierce macaw on the verandah - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

Magpie.

Mallard:
Mallards carved in oily silken water - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Meadowlark:
Meadow-lark no less than nightingale - James Whitcombe Riley "Three Singing Friends"

Missel-Thrush:
Sweet sings the missel-thrush amid the crash - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"

Mockingbird.

Moor-Fowl:
Sorrow in the cries of moor-fowls - Winfield Shiras "Sonnet"

Moor-Hen:
The moor-hen stepping from her reeds - Charlotte Mew "On the Asylum Road"

Night-Hawk:
Dream upon the night-hawks peopling heaven - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

Night-Owl:
The little night-owl make her throne - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Shelley"

Nightingale.

Nightjar:
Before the nightjar sounds his autumn note - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

A flock of nightjars watching over me - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"

The night-jar is abroad on the heath - "A Sleep Song" transl. by P.H. Pearse

Nuthatch:
the nuthatch, a glutton for its seeds - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

Oriole.

Osprey:
That collects in the talons of the osprey - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The kills osprey commit - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"

Keeping the ospreys from the chimney - Cynthia Zarin "Ouija Board"

Ostrich:
Ask you to emulate the flight path of an ostrich - dee(dee) c. ardan "freedom terrors"

What ostriches couldn't digest - Guy Wetmore Carryl "The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting"

Eight pairs of ostriches in harness - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"

A lullaby of ostriches and emus - Deborah Ruddell "Penguin's Lullaby"

Owl.

Ox-Bird:
The ox-birds chase the tide - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

Parakeet:
A flock of wild parakeets comes to roost - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"

Parrot.

Partridge.

Peacock.

Peafowl:
The number of bones in a peafowl - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"

Pelican.

Penguin:
Penguins fly through watersky - Eileen Spinelli "Water-Wings"

Petrel:
To the petrel the swooping gale - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"

Safe as the petrel on tossing billow - Emily Bronte "The Two Children"

The petrel's wind flew over eternity - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Pheasant.

Pigeon.

Pileated Woodpecker:
The pileated woodpecker's maniacal laugh - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"

Plover:
The plover of the lonesome hills - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous

Poultry:
Often with our Poultry running - "Fox Chace" [sic] [W. Belch's British Sports, for the Amusement of Children]

Quail.

Quetzal:
The outspread plumes of the quetzal bird - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

The quetzal I've snared - Paige Quinones "Wings Covert"

Raptor:
Raptor of iron plumage - Pablo Neruda "It Was Not You" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Raven.

Ring-Dove:
A ring-dove let fall a sprig of yew - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Robin.

Rock Dove:
Where rock doves would be brought to nest - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"

Rook.

Rooster.

Sandbird:
Sandbirds twittering glance through crystal air - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Sandhill Crane:
As Sandhill cranes must thread the meadow - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"

Evidence of traffic and sandhill cranes - Alison Swan "Signs"

Sandhill cranes poised between the tall grass and oaks - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"

Screech-Owl:
Again the screech-owl shrieks - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Seabird:
The stasis of a seabird's dive - Paige Quinones "Elegy Ending on the Ocean Floor"

Hear seabirds cackle like ghosts - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

Sea-lark:
The shrill short crying of the sea-lark - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

Skylark.

Snipe:
The creak of broken rushes and the last snipe's cry - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"

Snowbird:
Snowbirds spread their crystallized wings - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"

Snow birds and sooty herons caught - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

Songbird:
In the timeless throat of the songbird - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

Sparrow.

Starling.

Stork:
The cry of a stork landing on the roof - Anna Akhmatova [Untitled] transl. Richard McKane

Stormbird:
only the stormbird's flight is wild - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"

Sunbird:
Sunbirds exalting the break of dawn - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

Mountains and rivers and crimson sunbirds - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"

Swallow (bird).

Swan.

Tanager:
Whirling tanagers sucked in a wind-pocket - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"

Thrush.

Towhee:
Notes and dyes of jay and towhee - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"

Turkey:
Three wild turkeys crossing the street - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"

Turkey Vulture:
Turkey vultures circling in two by two - Douglas S. Jones "Sexy in the Food Chain"

Vulture.

Warbler.

Waterfowl:
Morning run among the lilies and the rowdy waterfowl - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 2: A psalm of Isaak, accompanied by baying hounds"

Whippoorwill.

Wild-Bird:
Sweet chant of the wild-birds' morning hymn - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"

Wildfowl:
Big lagoons where wildfowl play - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Travelling Post Office"

Wood Drake:
Where the wood drake rests in his beauty - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

Woodpecker.

Wood-Thrush:
The wood-thrush ceased her song - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Rise of the Tide"

Whistle vespers to the wood thrush - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"

Wren.


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