In the place where one species

  dwells;

  An equivalent thrives in another.

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  Red and Willow,

  Bald and White-tailed;

  Carrion and Hooded,

  Herring and Lesser Black-back.

  Bewick's and Whistling,

  Common and Arctic;

  Golden, Pacific and long-distance

  American.

  Royal, Wandering and far Amsterdam.

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  Common and Red-Crowned;

  Whooping and Siberian.

  A Cygnus Whooping,

  plus the Trumpeter.

  Gyphon and White-backed;

  Cape and High Himalayan.

  Tawny and Steppe,

  Verraux's, Golden and Wedge-tailed of

  the Southern Cross.

  Pied and White Wag,

  Maribou and the Adjuants'.

  Common Buzz and Broad-winged Hawk,

  Sparrow,

  Sharp-shinned and possibly Cooper's.

  And don't leave out Andean and

  Californian;

  Nor the goat antelopes with horns like

  scimitars:

  Alpine, Spanish and Nubian,

  The two Caucasus, plus

  Siberian.

  In the place where one dwells,

  its equivalent abounds in another.

  As with Lynx Eurasian,

  So too with Lynx Canadian.

  Over the same stretch the Great

  Horned watches,

  In the Eurasian depths so too

  Owl Eagle plunges.

  Through the canopy the Harpy cruises.

  Upon the un-suspecting the Crowned

  descends.

  And in the vastness of the

  Pantanal,

  Strides a cat like a leopard,

  But crowns the apex like

  a tiger:

  Panthera onca

  Two cats in one.

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