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a bird that sounds like a credit card scraped across a comb, all night, forever

voicemales call up to 20,000 times nightly
migrationflies to Africa despite seeming barely airworthy
hidingheard everywhere, seen almost never
name originscientific name means rasp-rasp, twice over
declinemowing machines nearly erased them from Europe
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