5000 miles a year thats a long way to fly

We are so in need of help
From you
As wild birds go we see
A great deal of the planet
And the changes now that be

From the Chutotsk Peninsula
To the Isthmus
From North East Russia
JApan NOrth and South Korea
CHina Hong Kong Taiwan
Into Vietnam and Thailand
BAngladesh and Myanmar
Our fear

Being hunted shot at
We winter now in China
In Guang Dong
The problems reclamation
Our wetlands are being savaged
The climates changing
And it all feels wrong

We are the only wading birds
Who still eat with a spoon
In the Fu Cheng estuary
And the Zhanjiang Mangroves
But soon

Even there we are suffering
Disturbances affect
Pollution it is everywhere
Though it is hard to detect

Its not until we get down
On the wetlands then we see
The filth snd all the plastic waste
Just where it shouldnt be

Hunting is a problem
Over Bangladesh and Myanmar
People taking pot shots at us
No matter where we are

With the habitat getting less and less
Its almost as if you say
You do not want us on this earth
And its best we go away

We know the BBC is doing something
Collecting eggs I think in Moscow Zoo
Also out at Slimbridge thats in Gloucestershire
But It feels like a last ditch effort
Now from you

In 2009 there were maybe just 200 pairs
And now no more than 100 maybe less
We all know we are suffering
This abusive lost of habitat
And its causing so much truly dramatic stress

We really are a charismatic species
Critically endangered as your know
Habitat loss is terrible when flying such long distances
To wintering grounds to have no where to go

When we are so exhausted from the journey
It really is a bummer to believe
If you can stop the hunting now in Bangladesh
That alone will probably achieve

Some help and the rest is down to habitat
And why are you lot such a filthy mob
Why do you throw plastic all around the place
Truly we ingest it and you rob

The wild ones of the pristine flats so beautiful
And many species clearly do devour
Little bits of plastic and its killing them
Really we are losing all our power

About Rex Tyler

I love animals. I enjoy writing poetry and delivering speeches.I like to mentor people who need help in preparing speeches and evaluations.I enjoy travel although it is much harder for me these days.I so enjoyed the Andes Mountains and Volcanoes and the Quichua people who live and thrive there.I have lots of friends around the world.
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