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The Dancer. Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica), Everglades National  Park. Florida, USA. | Beautiful birds, Pet birds, Pretty birds

dancer in the dense vegetation of a marshland echoes a harsh-like call a very unbirdlike call of a gallinute rail bird with glossy blue-green plummage bright yellow legs with long talons and an long orange and yellow beak ... a secretive bird who is a weak flyer mostly flightless loving thick reed beds and underbrush to run through an opportunist feeder of bugs can swim to find fish and an occasional frog endangered in some places due to loss of habitat listen for whistle-like squeak-like grunts when near marshlands or dense forests ... _____________________ April 16, 2021 Poetry/Verse/blue-green bird Copyright Protected, ID 04-1347-464-16 All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France Written for the Standard Contest, All Yours (Apr 17) sponsor, Brian Strand, Judged, 04/16/2021 First Place

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Date: 4/18/2021 7:24:00 AM
Congratulations for your great win, Constance :)
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Date: 4/18/2021 7:37:00 AM
Heidi, thank you so much for the congratulations, love _Constance
Date: 4/18/2021 12:49:00 AM
What an amazing creature you have described beautifully in your poem Constance. Congratulations on your wonderful first placement! Blessings xxoo
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Date: 4/18/2021 7:38:00 AM
Connie, thank you for the compliment and congratulations, love _Constance
Date: 4/17/2021 5:51:00 AM
What an exquisite portrait of this figure of beauty that nature has graced us with.
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Date: 4/17/2021 12:53:00 PM
Sy, thank you so much for the compliment, love _Constance
Date: 4/16/2021 10:08:00 PM
Vivid description that lingers in heart! Beautiful! Congratulations!!
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Date: 4/17/2021 12:53:00 PM
JCB, thank you for the compliment and congratulations, love_Constance
Date: 4/16/2021 11:41:00 AM
The Hawaiian gallinule is credited with bringing fire to the people so is a protected species in the islands. Aloha! Rico
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Date: 4/16/2021 12:33:00 PM
Rico, oh that is wonderful to hear that this beautiful bird is a protected species in Hawaii, love _Constance
Date: 4/16/2021 11:15:00 AM
Fine poem about a bird I'm totally unfamiliar with. I'm assuming it is North American. What is its range? Thanks for sharing this, Constance.
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Date: 4/16/2021 11:20:00 AM
Milt, thanks for visiting my poem and the compliment. This bird is just one of a large family of Rail (Rallidae) birds, that live in all places below the snowline but not deserts, likes dense marshlands, love _Constance

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