Why Birds Sing Poem by Francis Duggan

In their breeding Season birds have their borders to defend
And their own kind to them they don't treat as a friend
'Tis not of a sense of joy or for love of the Spring
But for to proclaim his borders that the male bird does sing
In their breeding Season birds sing all day long
And not love but aggression they have in their song
Their song born of aggression out of their sexual drive
In Nature the strongest and fittest survive
In the Bird World the bird with the loudest song known to succeed
The strongest and fittest are those that does breed
The biggest and most aggressive his genes will live on
Long after the breath of life from him has gone
And those who believe birds by love and joy are inspired to song
Only fooling themselves for they have got it wrong.