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a bird that fakes a broken wing to lure predators away from its babies.
broken-wing actlimps theatrically to drag foxes from the nest
old namecalled peewit for its piercing wailing cry
tumbling flightflips and rolls midair like a drunk acrobat
eggs prizedonce a Victorian delicacy, now legally protected
name originmeans leap-with-a-flicker, for its floppy flight