In the place where one species
dwells;

An equivalent thrives in another.

Shall I start and you add the name?

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.

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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