So I was chilling in my friends backyard and I saw this plain, ordinary brown bird fly onto the fence, looking around for bugs in the way that birds shift their heads so fast.

and then i suddenly needed to write things down

so i grabbed the pizza box and started writing

I thought it was normal

Plain

But as I kept looking the bird became more defined, more majestic

Natures million years of evolution had engineered this bird to become the adept hunter it is today

Master of it’s domain (niche)

        But what was it’s niche?

Our biology highschool textbook told us about the different predators of birds and their prey

But not of it’s environmental niche

(Sure we learned of the multitude of height-based niches in the Amazon, but nothing was ever said about the urban niches)

If it’s niche is in the forest, shouldn’t it make “biological” sense to remain there?

     No, we forced it out

In a blink of an eye

We pushed this bird out of it’s niche

The niche Mother Earth had honed this bird to be

The majestic predator that it is now

And yet we ruined this bird

Gone.

All in the blink of an eye

We just keep pushing these fellow organisms without care or thought

Without emotion

So greedy

So individualistic

Mother Earth never intended for one of her children to outshine the others