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The Observer
|August 03, 2025
We are the birds who lived. We were gone - for half a millennium - but we came back and, in a modest sort of way, we thrive.
We are the tallest, we are the most elegant, we are the most graceful and we are by far the best dancers. This country is lucky to have us back.
Monday
Maybe our ancestors took part in too many medieval banquets. I've heard one occasion when they ate 204 of us at a sitting. We were gone before they started draining marshland and making sure that we could never come back. Or so it seemed.
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