Birds in the hand

Is that ever true.

Nature is beautiful, varied into the bizarre and forever fascinating with a wonder under every stone.

And yet, it is brutal for there is an innate driver in all of it. Every organism is programmed to make more. That is more of itself and through that process of selfishness, more genes into the next generation and beyond.

Profoundly simple.

So when the king parrot with its crimson plumage defying capture by a renaissance painter chirps at you, it is only after one thing.