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What with habitat loss and avian flu, birds need all the help they can get these days, so your verses please (up to 16 lines) on one of the many species, or their world in general, from the Audubonic-Attenboroughian to the absurd , as it were, by the 20th of May.

White Staffordshire in red-pink jacket looking at camera

Too many cats’ mugs have been seen
Displayed here in our magazine – 
But not this issue, glory be,
Its pages feline visage-free.
I hope the Ed’s not  changed his tune
When LUPO’s back the First of June!