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Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Tens of thousands of starlings swirled over the reed beds at dusk in shapes so perfect that onlookers demanded to know who was in charge, and the starlings insist nobody is.
Fiction Tiny Stories
Nobody in the family had ever written down Nana Rosa's lemon cake, and it took them three failed attempts to realise that the grey parrot in the kitchen had been listening all along.
Fact-based Weird Facts
A baby flamingo hatches fluffy and pale grey, and it only turns that famous pink because of what it eats, a colour its parents can lose again while feeding it.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
The cap was round, clean and undeniably blue, and after four minutes of silent inspection the bowerbird carried it back out of the garden and dropped it by the shed.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Under the new arrangement, everybody takes a turn on the outside of the huddle, and nobody is to mention how long anyone else has been in the middle.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
The designation covers the pavement, the low wall, the bin, and a strip of air above the doorway that the gull describes as historically significant.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
The fountain has run since April. The duck has held the north bank since March, and says that order of arrival is the whole point.
Fiction Tiny Stories
Every weekday for six years a pigeon has boarded the 7:14 at platform two, ridden exactly one stop, and then walked all the way home again.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
The bird stood in eleven centimetres of water from dawn until early afternoon and wishes to make clear that this was, at all times, work.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
In a measured statement, the crow described the seed-to-suet ratio as “frankly insulting.”